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Leo Tolstoy
OccupationNovelist
GenreRealist
Notable worksWar 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 writernovelist, 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? -->

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 This article incorporates text from D.S. Mirsky's "A History of Russian Literature" (1926-27), a publication now in the public domain.

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