Leo Tolstoy From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "Tolstoy" and "Tolstoi" redirect here. For other uses, see Tolstoy (disambiguation). This name uses Eastern/Southern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Nikolayevich and the family name is Tolstoy. Leo Tolstoy Tolstoy photographed at his Yasnaya Polyana estate in May 1908 by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky. The only known color photograph of the writer. Born Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy September 9, 1828 Yasnaya Polyana, Russian Empire Died November 20, 1910 (aged 82) Astapovo, Russian Empire Occupation Novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist Language Russian, French Nationality Russian Period 1852–1910 Notable work(s) War and Peace Anna Karenina A Confession Spouse(s) Sophia Tolstaya Children 14 Signature Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Никола́евич Толсто́й, pronounced [ˈlʲɛf nʲɪkaˈɫaɪvʲɪtɕ taɫˈstoj] ( listen); 9 September [O.S. 28 August] 1828 – 20 November [O.S. 7 November] 1910), also known as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer. His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and anarcho-pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Mohandas Gandhi[1] and Martin Luther King, Jr.[2]
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