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When I first purchased and read this book, one day at a time, since it was meant to be a "daily inspirational" book, I very much enjoyed it, but then I also purchased a Russian Language Edition, Circle of Reading (Круг Чтения), that was printed in 2015 at Moscow. At this time I noted that there were many entire Daily Sections in the Sekirin Translation that are not in in the Russian Edition. For example, in the Sekirin version, for the August 15 page, the entire entry speaks about the virtue of not eating meat, and when I had earlier read this the first time I was pleased because I am a Vegetarian; however, this vegetarian page is not contained in the 2015 Russian Language Edition. To further determine which edition, either the Sekirin or the 2015 Moscow Russian Edition was correct, I purchased a copy of the 2-volume, 1923 Russian Language Edition published in Berlin by I. P. Ladizhnikova. The Berlin 1923 Russian Language Edition and the 2015 Moscow Russian Language Edition are identical. Although, as a Vegetarian I did enjoy the advocacy extolling the benefits of not eating meat, I think Sekirin made an egregious error in replacing the very good messages that Tolstoy placed in his original book for August 15. Sekirin should have simply translated Tolstoy's messages and not replaced Tolstoy's beliefs with his own. I am still reading the Circle of Reading on a daily basis but now am comparing the different editions just to see what other changes may have been made. Sekirin is a great disappointment for me and I will not be purchasing any of his other works.