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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.
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culture · Russian writer (1828–1910) · writer · playwright · philosopher · novelist · pedagogue · essayist · children's writer · diarist · prose writer · opinion journalist · also Leo Tolstoy, Tolstoy, Tolstoĭ, Lev Nikolaevich, graf, Tolstoy, Leo, graf, Leo Tolstoi, Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoĭ
Born 28 August 1828 · Died 7 November 1910 · Q7243
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2026· 18 entries
The Topeka Capital-Journal: How to find simplicity in Leo Tolstoy daily wisdom - The Topeka Capital-Journal
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AOL: Finding simplicity in Leo Tolstoy's daily wisdom
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The Economic Times: Quote of the day by Leo Tolstoy: 'A man is like a fraction whose numerator is...' Life lessons from motivational quote on humility, self-awareness, arrogance, true character ...
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The Economic Times: Quote of the Day by Leo Tolstoy: “Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of…” A powerful life lesson on knowing what truly matters and where to ...
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Exchange4Media: Penguin Random House India to publish ‘Truth and Love: The Gandhi-Tolstoy Letters’
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open.kg: The Bishkek City Hall explained why they poured concrete over the ditch on Leo Tolstoy Street
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“Variant: Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
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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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Okdiario: Leo Tolstoy: if you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel your ability to love grow
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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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Yahoo: Philosopher Leo Tolstoy was married nearly 50 years. His marriage advice still stands today.
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Indiatimes: Quote of the Day by Leo Tolstoy, "The two most happy warriors in a man's life that help him win every battle are..."
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2023· 2 entries
Wall Street Journal: My Summer With Leo Tolstoy
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Forbes: Leo Tolstoy the Libertarian: Yet Another Look at the Great ‘War and Peace’
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2022· 1 entry
The Atlantic: Leo Tolstoy: The Later Years
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2016· 1 entry
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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2012· 1 entry
“Anna Karenina: English-Russian Parallel Text Edition Volume One - Capitulo 1, página 3, Leo Tolstoy, Lulu.com, 2012.”
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2010· 1 entry
“Aos políticos - página 62, in A insubmissão e outros escritos, tradução de Plínio Augusto Coêlho, São Paulo: Ateliê Editorial e Editora Imaginário, 2010”
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2007· 2 entries
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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At Herresta manor in Sweden, which is owned by Tolstoy's descendants
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2006· 1 entry
“Liev Tolstói como citado in: Júlia Julieta - Página 63, Tereza Homem de Mello - DG Edições, 2006, ISBN 9729983968, 9789729983962, 65 páginas”
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2005· 1 entry
“Liev Tolstói citado em "Antônio Caringi: o escultor do Rio Grande do Sul em seu centenário" - Página 76, Enedy Rodrigues Till - Editora Evangraf, 2005, 160 páginas”
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2001· 1 entry
Tolstoy's great-great-grandson Vladimir Tolstoy made an appeal to the Russian Orthodox Church to reconsider Tolstoy's excommunication
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1962· 1 entry
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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1956· 1 entry
“Reminiscences of Lenin by His Relatives”
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1954· 1 entry
“Leon Tolstoi in: Л.Н. Толстой: очерк творчества (a descrição da criação) - Página 413, С.П Бычков - 1954”
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1946· 1 entry
“Léon Tolstoi citado em Vultos célebres, Volume 1 - página 93, Chiquinha Neves Lôbo, 1946”
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1944· 1 entry
Literary historian and Soviet medievalist Nikolai Gudzii wrote a biography of Tolstoy that spanned 80 pages
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1933· 1 entry
Career landmark: Nazi book burnings.
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1929· 1 entry
The Commissariat of Education and Health took control
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1928· 1 entry
“Полное собрание сочинений:, Volume 12 - página 169, Лев Толстой (граф) - Гос. изд-во худож. лит-ры, 1928”
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1925· 1 entry
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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1921· 1 entry
Creating another obstacle for Alexandra and Chertkov
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1917· 1 entry
Writings that were formerly censored could now be published, since all literary works were nationalized in November 1918
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1912· 1 entry
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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1910· 3 entries
Died 1910-11-07.
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“Os ricos farão de tudo pelos pobres, menos descer de suas costas.”
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“Enquanto houver matadouros, também haverá campos de batalha.”
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1909· 1 entry
Gandhi read a copy of the letter when he was becoming an activist in South Africa
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1908· 1 entry
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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1905· 1 entry
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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1904· 1 entry
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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1902· 1 entry
Wrote an open letter describing and denouncing Nicholas II's activities in China
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1901· 1 entry
The American travel lecturer Burton Holmes visited Yasnaya Polyana with Albert J
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1900· 1 entry
“Pamphlets. Translated from the Russian - página 71, Leo Tolstoy (graf) - Free Age Press, 1900”
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1891· 1 entry
Tolstoy obtained a copy of Howard Williams's book The Ethics of Diet from Chertkov
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1890· 1 entry
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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1887· 1 entry
Tolstoy was lapsing from a vegetarian diet by occasionally eating meat
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1886· 1 entry
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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1884· 1 entry
Tolstoy wrote a book called What I Believe, in which he openly confessed his Christian beliefs
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1881· 1 entry
Count Alexei Lvovich Tolstoy (1881–1886)
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1879· 1 entry
Count Michael Lvovich Tolstoy (1879–1944)
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1877· 1 entry
Count Andrei Lvovich Tolstoy (1877–1916), served in the Russo-Japanese War
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1874· 1 entry
Count Nikolai Lvovich Tolstoy (1874–1875), died in infancy
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1872· 1 entry
Count Peter Lvovich Tolstoy (1872–1873), died in infancy
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1869· 3 entries
Count Lev Lvovich Tolstoy (1869–1945), writer and sculptor
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“Leon Tolstoi citado em Герои Отечественной войны по гр. Л. Н. Толстому: (Война и мир. Соч. гр. Л. Н. Толстого, т. V, 1869 г.) - página 6, Николай Лесков - IQ Publishing Solutions LLC, 1869, ISBN 5447815797, 9785447815790, 64 páginas”
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Writes: "Do you know what this summer has meant for me
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1866· 1 entry
Count Ilya Lvovich Tolstoy (1866–1933), writer
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1863· 1 entry
Count Sergei Lvovich Tolstoy (1863–1947), composer and ethnomusicologist
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1862· 1 entry
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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1860· 2 entries
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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1857· 1 entry
And 1860–61 converted Tolstoy from a dissolute and privileged society author to a non-violent and spiritual anarchist
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1852· 1 entry
“the weather was marvellous; went out hunting, rode up and down the undulating country till one. Killed two ducks.”
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1851· 1 entry
After running up heavy gambling debts, he went with his older brother to the Caucasus and joined the army
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1844· 1 entry
Began studying law and oriental languages at Kazan University, where teachers described him as "both unable and unwilling to learn"
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1828· 1 entry
Born 1828-08-28.
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