To understand means to simplify. (RussianПонять - значит упростить) [From Strugatsky's SFnovelВолны гасят ветер (Waves blow out the wind, translated to English as The Time Wanderers)]
... novel intially appeared serially in the periodical Ruskii Vestnik ("Russian Messenger"), but Tolstoy clashed with the editor, Mikhail Katkov, over issues that ...