Leo Tolstoy

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy {{Audio|Ru-Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy.ogg|listen}} (Russian: ??? ??????????? ????????; commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy) (September 9, 1828 – November 20, 1910; August 28, 1828 – November 7, 1910, O.S.) was a Russian novelist, social reformer, pacifist, Christian anarchist, vegetarian, moral thinker and an influential member of the Tolstoy family.

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Russian - English - September 9 - 1828 - November 20 - 1910 - O.S. - Russian - Novelist - Social reformer - Pacifist - Christian anarchist - Vegetarian - Tolstoy family

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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 Russian life, the two books stand at the peak of realistic fiction. As a moral philosopher he was notable for his ideas on nonviolent resistance through his work The Kingdom of God is Within You, which in turn influenced such twentieth-century figures as Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King.

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War and Peace - Anna Karenina - Realistic fiction - Nonviolent resistance - The Kingdom of God is Within You - Mahatma Gandhi - Martin Luther King

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