SkipCaptcha, Automoderated users, edit
715
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Line 1:
Line 1: − +
no edit summary
[[Image:Tolstoy.jpg|right|thumb|Leo Tolstoy]]
[[Image:Tolstoy.jpg|right|thumb|Leo Tolstoy]]
Count '''Lev (Leo) Tolstoy''' (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой)(Yasnaya Polyana, [[Russia]] 1828 - Yasnaya Polyana, Russia 1910), Russian novelist, [[writer]], essayist, agrarian [[anarchy|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. Tolstoy was a pen pal of [[Mahatma Gandi]], but they never met in person.
Count '''Lev (Leo) Tolstoy''' (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой)(Yasnaya Polyana, [[Russia]] 1828 - Yasnaya Polyana, Russia 1910), Russian novelist, [[writer]], essayist, agrarian [[anarchy|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. Tolstoy was a pen pal of [[Mohandas K. Gandhi]], but they never met in person.
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 [[Ascesis|ascetic]], Tolstoy died of pneumonia on November 20 in 1910.
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 [[Ascesis|ascetic]], Tolstoy died of pneumonia on November 20 in 1910.