I have always admired the Tolstoi cards because of my Russian ancestry as well. The portraits can keep you busy on a daily basis since there's always one for sale somewhere. The Tolstoi are going to be a little bit harder to track down. If you're only looking for a part-time collecting gig, then I'd probably go with the Tolstoi. It is a bit more definitive and will start to look really neat when you get a bit of a stack to flip through.
But back to the "hooked" point. Once in awhile I try to branch out into other collecting areas, but I always get pulled back into T206 and wind up selling the other stuff to afford the T206s. To me, that's when you know you are hooked -- that's when you hear the calling.
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