Leo Tolstoy

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Tolstoy photographed at his Yasnaya Polyana estate in May 1908 by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky. The yet known color photograph of the writer.|
Born| Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
(1828-09-09)September 9, 1828
Yasnaya Polyana, Russian empire|
Died| November 20, 1910(1910-11-20) (aged 82)
Astapovo, Russian Empire|
Occupation| Novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist|
Language| Russian, French|
Nationality| Russian|
Period| 18521910|
Notable work(s)| warfare and Peace
Anna Karenina
A Confession|
Spouse(s)| Sophia Tolstaya|
Children| 14|
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Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: ??? ??????????? ????????, pronounced [l?ev n??k??la?v??t? t?l?stoj] ( listen); known in the Anglosphere as Leo Tolstoy) (September 9, 1828 November 20, 1910[1]) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in manners, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels struggle and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the superior novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. Many withdraw Tolstoy to mystify been one of the worlds greatest novelists.



[2][3] Tolstoy is equally known for his obscure and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual change in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer.
His literal comment of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and anarcho-pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such(prenominal) works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Mohandas Gandhi[4] and Martin Luther King, Jr.[5]
Contents [hide]  * 1 Biography * 1.1 Personal life * 2 Novels and fictional works * 2.1 Tolstoy on Shakespeare * 3 spectral and...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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