Leo Tolstoy

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.

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.

See also

During the Crimean War Tolstoy commanded a battery, witnessing the siege of Sebastopol.

• William Shakespeare
• Vladimir Nabokov
• Nikolai Gogol
• P.G. Wodehouse
• Author

External links

• Literature Network » Leo Tolstoy
• On line books ClassicAuthors.net
• Anna Karenina by graf Leo Tolstoy Project Gutenberg
• Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy