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Leo Tolstoy | |
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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.
gcgfgdfgfand pacifism", Leo Tolstoy, Phoenix Press, London 1990, ISBN 0-948984-15-5. Other compilations of essays, both political and non-political, were published in the 1920s and 1930s by the Oxford University Press; these blue cloth-backed pocketbooks can be found in the "Essays" or "Pocketbooks" sections of British second-hand bookshops. The most interesting essays from a libertarian perspective are the long essays "The End of the Age", "The Slavery of Our Times" and "The Kingdom of God is Within You" and the shorter "Patriotism and Government" and "Thou Shalt not Kill".
- Tolstoy's grandniece-in-law Pati Behrs was married to John Derek 1951-57.
- Tolstoy is the great-great-grandfather of Swedish jazz-singer Viktoria Tolstoy.
- Tolstoy means fat in Russian. Lev means lion in Russian.
- In Episode 14, Season 5 of Seinfeld titled "The Marine Biologist," Jerry falsely informs Elaine that Tolstoy originally intended for his book "War and Peace" to be entitled "War, What is it Good For?" but that his mistress disagreed with the former title. --and so what? -->
References
This article incorporates text from D.S. Mirsky's "A History of Russian Literature" (1926-27), a publication now in the public domain.
External links
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
- ALEXANDER II AND HIS TIMES: A Narrative History of Russia in the Age of Alexander II, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky
- Misplaced Pages neutral point of view disputes from March 2008
- Russian military personnel of the Crimean War
- Christian pacifists
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- Leo Tolstoy
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- Russian novelists
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- Russian essayists
- Russian short story writers
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