Leo Tolstoy

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia(Redirected from Leo tolstoy)Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (September 9 [O.S. August 28] 1828 – November 20 [O.S. November 7] 1910) (Russian: Лев Никола́евич Толсто́й, IPA: [lʲɛv nʲɪkʌˈlajɪvʲɪtɕ tʌlˈstoj] listen (help·info)), commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer – novelist, essayist, dramatist and philosopher – as well as pacifist Christian anarchist and educational reformer. He is perhaps the most influential member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family.As a fiction writer Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists, particularly noted for his masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina. In their scope, breadth and realistic depiction of 19th-century Russian life, the two books stand at the peak of realist fiction. As a moral philosopher Tolstoy was notable for his ideas on nonviolent resistance through works such as The Kingdom of God is Within You, which in turn influenced such twentieth-century figures as Mohandas K. Gandhi[1] and Martin Luther King, Leo Tolstoy, late in life.Born:August 28 1828Yasnaya Polyana, RussiaDied:20 November 1910Astapovo, RussiaOccupation:NovelistGenres:RealistInfluences:Fyodor Dostoevsky, Aleksandr Pushkin, Arthur SchopenhauerInfluenced:Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Virginia Woolf, Orhan Pamuk