Leo Tolstoy

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Leo Tolstoy

Count Lev (Leo) Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой)(Yasnaya Polyana, Russia 1828 - Yasnaya Polyana, Russia 1910), Russian novelist, writer, essayist, agrarian anarchist and philosopher. He is one of the greatest of all novelists. Tolstoy's major work, War and Peace, appeared between the years 1865 and 1869.

In 1862 he married Sonya Andreyevna Behrs who bore him 13 children. In 1901 the Russian Orthodox Church excommunicated him. After leaving as a wandering ascetic, Tolstoy died of pneumonia on November 20 in 1910.

1 Writings
2 See also
3 External links
4 References

Writings

Some of his works:

War and Peace
Anna Karenina
The Death of Ivan Ilych
Sebastopol
Father Sergius
Forged Coupon, The
God Sees the Truth but Waits
Godson, The
How Much Land Does a Man Need
Imp and the Crust, The
Ivan the Fool
Kingdom of God is Within You, The
Master and Man
Repentant Sinner, The
Resurrection
Three Hermits, The
What Men Live By
Where Love Is, God Is

After finishing Anna Karenina Tolstoy renounced all his earlier works. "I wrote everything into Anna Karenina," he later confessed, "and nothing was left over." Voskresenia (1899, Resurrection) was Tolstoy's last major novel. ^[1]