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Leo Tolstoy

Occupation	Novelist
Genre	Realist
Notable works	War and Peace Anna Karenina

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (September 9 [O.S. August 28] 1828 – November 20 [O.S. November 7] 1910) (Template:Lang-ru, Template:IPARus listen), commonly referred to in English as Leo (Lyof, Lyoff) Tolstoy, was a Russian writer – novelist, essayist, dramatist and philosopher – as well as pacifist Christian anarchist and educational reformer. He was the most influential member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family.

As a fiction writer, Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists, particularly noted for his masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina. In their scope, breadth and realistic depiction of 19th-century Russian life, the two books stand at the peak of realist fiction. As a moral philosopher Tolstoy was notable for his ideas on nonviolent resistance through works such as The Kingdom of God is Within You, which in turn influenced such twentieth-century figures as Mohandas K. Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Biography

Leo Tolstoy was born August 28, 1828, Yasnaya Polyana, Central Russia. The Tolstoys are a well-known family of old Russian nobility; Tolstoy was connected to the grandest families of Russian aristocracy; Alexander Pushkin was his fourth cousin. He always remained a class-conscious nobleman who cherished his impeccable French pronunciation and kept aloof from the intelligentsia.

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Leo Tolstoy dedicated websites

Biographies and critiques

Illustrated Biography online at University of Virginia
Tolstoy and Popular Literature - Several scientific papers from the University of Minnesota
Brief bio
Leo Tolstoy's Life - Tolstoy's personal, professional and world event timeline, and synopsis of his life from Masterpiece Theatre.
The Last Days of Leo Tolstoy
Aleksandra Tolstaya, "Tragedy of Tolstoy"
Template:Ru icon The ancestors Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Template:Ru icon The World of Leo Tolstoy
Information and Critique on Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy Chronicle by Erik Lindgren
Tolstoy's Legacy for Mankind: A Manifesto for Nonviolence, Part 1
Tolstoy's Legacy for Mankind: A Manifesto for Nonviolence, Part 2
Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool an essay by George Orwell
article written on Tolstoy's 80th birthday by Leon Trotsky
Simon Farrow, Leo Tolstoy: Sinner, Novelist, Prophet, Proceedings of the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, Vol. 9, 18 January 2005
S.F. Yegorov, Leo Tolstoy, in PROSPECTS: the quarterly review of comparative education, Vol XXIV, no 3/4, June 1994, UNESCO, p. 647-660 (about Tolstoy's writings on education)

Leo Tolstoy in the media

Leo Tolstoy at IMDb
Portrayed by Bill Jones in the film Lives and Deaths of the Poets (2009)
ALEXANDER II AND HIS TIMES: A Narrative History of Russia in the Age of Alexander II, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky

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Novels	Childhood (1852) Boyhood (1854) Youth (1856) The Cossacks (1863) War and Peace (1869) Anna Karenina (1878) Resurrection (1899) Hadji Murat (1912)
Novellas	A Landowner's Morning (1856) Two Hussars (1856) Family Happiness (1859) Polikúshka (1860) The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886) Walk in the Light While There is Light (1888) The Kreutzer Sonata (1889) The Devil (1889) Master and Man (1895) Father Sergius (1898) The Forged Coupon (1904)
Short stories	"The Raid" (1852) "The Cutting of the Forest" (1855) "Sevastopol Sketches" (1855) "Recollections of a Billiard-marker" (1855) "The Snowstorm" (1856) "Lucerne" (1857) "Albert" (1858) "Three Deaths" (1859) "The Porcelain Doll" (1863) "God Sees the Truth, But Waits" (1872) "The Prisoner of the Caucasus" (1872) "The Bear Hunt" (1872) "What Men Live By" (1881) "Diary of a Lunatic" (1884) "Quench the Spark" (1885) "An Old Acquaintance" (1885) "Where Love Is, God Is" (1885) "Ivan the Fool" (1885) "Evil Allures, But Good Endures" (1885) "Wisdom of Children" (1885) "The Three Hermits" (1886) "Promoting a Devil" (1886) "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" (1886) "The Grain" (1886) "Repentance" (1886) "Croesus and Fate" (1886) "Kholstomer" (1886) "The Two Brothers and the Gold" (1886) "A Lost Opportunity" (1889) "A Dialogue Among Clever People" (1892) "The Coffee-House of Surat" (1893) "The Young Tsar" (1894) "Too Dear!" (1897) "Work, Death, and Sickness" (1903) "Three Questions" (1903) "Alyosha the Pot" (1905) "After the Ball" (1911)
Plays	The Power of Darkness (1886) The First Distiller (1886) The Light Shines in the Darkness (1890) The Fruits of Enlightenment (1891) The Living Corpse (1900) The Cause of It All (1910)
Non-fiction	A History of Yesterday (1851) Confession (1882) The Gospel in Brief (1883) What I Believe (1884) What Is to Be Done? (1886) The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1894) What Is Art? (1897) "A Letter to a Hindu" (1908) The Inevitable Revolution (1909) A Calendar of Wisdom (1910)
Unfinished	The Decembrists (1884) "Posthumous Notes of the Hermit Fëdor Kuzmich" (1905)
Family	Sophia (wife) Alexandra (daughter) Ilya (son) Lev Lvovich (son) Tatyana (daughter)
Life and legacy	Yasnaya Polyana Tolstoyan movement Christian anarchism Departure of a Grand Old Man (1912 film) Lev Tolstoy and the Russia of Nicholas II (1928 documentary) Lev Tolstoy (1984 film) The Last Station (1990 novel, 2009 film) Story of One Appointment (2018 film) A Couple (2022 film)
Honors	Tolstoy Farm Tolstoj quadrangle crater
Related	The Triumph of the Farmer or Industry and Parasitism (1888) Vladimir Chertkov Aylmer and Louise Maude Translators of Tolstoy Tolstoy scholars
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Martin E. Hellman, Resist Not Evil in World Without Violence (Arun Gandhi ed.), M.K. Gandhi Institute, 1994, retrieved on 14 December 2006]

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