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Leo Tolstoy
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors of all time.
culture · Russian writer (1828–1910) · also Leo Tolstoy, Tolstoy
Born 28 August 1828 · Died 7 November 1910 · Q7243
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Understanding that welfare for human beings lies only in their unity, and that unity cannot be attained by violence. Unity can only be reached when each person, not thinking about unity, thinks only about fulfilling the laws of life. Only this supreme law of love, alike for all humans, unifies humanity.
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“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
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“Understanding that welfare for human beings lies only in their unity, and that unity cannot be attained by violence. Unity can only be reached when each person, not thinking about unity, thinks only about fulfilling the laws of life. Only this supreme law of love, alike for all humans, unifies humanity.”
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“My health not only has not suffered; it has in fact improved significantly since I have given up milk, butter and eggs, as well as sugar, tea, and coffee.”
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“The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens ... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere.”
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“If I recount this conversation with Proudhon, it is to show that, in my personal experience, he was the only man who understood the significance of education and of the printing press in our time.”
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realnoevremya.com: How Kazan is preparing for Tolstoy's anniversary and whether the museum will get a full exhibition
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Upworthy: Philosopher Leo Tolstoy was married nearly 50 years. His marriage advice still stands today.
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Ilya Tolstoy's great-grandson, Pyotr Tolstoy, is a well-known Russian journalist and TV presenter as well as a State Duma deputy since 2016.
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At Herresta manor in Sweden, which is owned by Tolstoy's descendants
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Leo Tolstoy's last surviving grandchild, Countess Tatiana Tolstoy-Paus, died in 2007 at Herresta manor in Sweden, which is owned by Tolstoy's descendants.
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Tolstoy's great-great-grandson Vladimir Tolstoy made an appeal to the Russian Orthodox Church to reconsider Tolstoy's excommunication
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One of his great-great-grandsons, Vladimir Tolstoy (born 1962), has been a director of the Yasnaya Polyana museum since 1994 and an adviser to the President of Russia on cultural affairs since 2012.
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“Reminiscences of Lenin by His Relatives”
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Literary historian and Soviet medievalist Nikolai Gudzii wrote a biography of Tolstoy that spanned 80 pages
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The Commissariat of Education and Health took control
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The Soviet government created its first Jubilee Committee to celebrate the centennial of Tolstoy's birth, which originally consisted of 13 members but grew to 38 members after a second committee formed in 1927
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Creating another obstacle for Alexandra and Chertkov
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Writings that were formerly censored could now be published, since all literary works were nationalized in November 1918
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Just two years after his death, How Fine, How Fresh the Roses Were (1913), and Lev Tolstoy, directed by and starring Sergei Gerasimov in 1984
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Gandhi read a copy of the letter when he was becoming an activist in South Africa
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Tolstoy wrote A Letter to a Hindu, outlining his belief in non-violence as a means for India to gain independence from colonial rule
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Some members of the Tolstoy family left Russia in the aftermath of the 1905 Russian Revolution, or after the establishment of the Soviet Union following the 1917 October Revolution, and many of Leo Tolstoy's relatives and descendants today live in Sweden, Germany, the United Kingdom, France and the United States.
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Tolstoy condemned the ensuing Russo-Japanese War and wrote to the Japanese Buddhist priest Soyen Shaku in a failed attempt to make a joint pacifist statement
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Wrote an open letter describing and denouncing Nicholas II's activities in China
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The American travel lecturer Burton Holmes visited Yasnaya Polyana with Albert J
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Tolstoy obtained a copy of Howard Williams's book The Ethics of Diet from Chertkov
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Tolstoy wrote a preface for Vladimir Chertkov's anti-hunting pamphlet Zlaia zabava: Mysli ob okhote (An Evil Pastime: Thoughts about Hunting)
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Tolstoy was lapsing from a vegetarian diet by occasionally eating meat
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Tolstoy wrote to the Russian explorer and anthropologist Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay, who was one of the first anthropologists to refute polygenism, the view that the different races of mankind belonged to different species
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Tolstoy wrote a book called What I Believe, in which he openly confessed his Christian beliefs
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Count Alexei Lvovich Tolstoy (1881–1886)
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Count Michael Lvovich Tolstoy (1879–1944)
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Count Andrei Lvovich Tolstoy (1877–1916), served in the Russo-Japanese War
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Count Nikolai Lvovich Tolstoy (1874–1875), died in infancy
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Count Peter Lvovich Tolstoy (1872–1873), died in infancy
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Count Lev Lvovich Tolstoy (1869–1945), writer and sculptor
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Writes: "Do you know what this summer has meant for me
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Count Ilya Lvovich Tolstoy (1866–1933), writer
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Count Sergei Lvovich Tolstoy (1863–1947), composer and ethnomusicologist
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On 23 September 1862, Tolstoy married Sophia Andreevna Behrs, who was sixteen years his junior and the daughter of a court physician.
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The death of his brother Nikolay in 1860 had an impact on Tolstoy, and led him to a desire to marry.
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Had an impact on Tolstoy, and led him to a desire to marry
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And 1860–61 converted Tolstoy from a dissolute and privileged society author to a non-violent and spiritual anarchist
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“the weather was marvellous; went out hunting, rode up and down the undulating country till one. Killed two ducks.”
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After running up heavy gambling debts, he went with his older brother to the Caucasus and joined the army
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Began studying law and oriental languages at Kazan University, where teachers described him as "both unable and unwilling to learn"
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