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Biography

Name: Leo Tolstoy
Birth Date: August 28, 1828
Death Date: November 9, 1910
Place of Birth: Tula Province, Russia
Place of Death: Astapovo, Russia
Nationality: Russian
Gender: Male
Occupations: novelist

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Biography of Leo (Nikolaevich) Tolstoy
13,391 words, approx. 45 pages
Leo Tolstoy is one of the most important novelists in Western literature. The breadth of his vision and the range of his accomplishments are immense. His 1928- 1958 collected works comprise 90 volumes, and a projected new edition will reach at least...
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Biography of Leo Tolstoy
11,293 words, approx. 38 pages
Few writers and thinkers have had the widespread, long-lasting influence of Russia's Leo Tolstoy. Besides creating War and Peace and Anna Karenina, two of the most celebrated novels in world literature, Tolstoy was a philosopher whose theories of...
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Biography of Leo Tolstoy
2,717 words, approx. 9 pages
The Russian novelist and moral philosopher Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) ranks as one of the world's great writers, and his War and Peace has been called the greatest novel ever written. Leo Tolstoy was one of the great rebels of all time, a man who during a...


Quotations
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Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Lev Nikolayevitch Tolstoy [Ле́в Никола́евич Толсто́й] ( 9 September 1828 – 20 November 1910 ) was a Russian writer, philosopher and social activist; his name is usually rendered into English as Leo Tolstoy , and sometimes...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Tolstoy, Leo
4,563 words, approx. 15 pages
(born Aug. 28 [Sept. 9, New Style], 1828, Yasnaya Polyana, Tula province, Russian Empire—died Nov. 7 [Nov. 20], 1910, Astapovo, Ryazan province) Russian author, a master of realistic fiction and one of the world's greatest novelists. Tolstoy is...
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Tolstoy, Leo Summary
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Lev Nikolaevich (Leo) Tolstoy (1828–1910) was born at Yasnaya Polyana, the Tolstoy family estate a hundred miles south of Moscow on August 28. He died on November 20 at a nearby railroad station, having fled in the night from an increasingly...
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Tolstoy, Leo
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(born Sept. 9, 1828, Yasnaya Polyana, Tula province, Russian Empire—died Nov. 20, 1910, Astapovo, Ryazan province) Russian writer, one of the world's greatest novelists. The scion of prominent aristocrats, Tolstoy spent much of his life at his...
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Leo Tolstoy Information
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Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (September 9 [O.S. August 28] 1828 – November 20 [O.S. November 7] 1910) (Russian: Лев Никола́евич Толсто́й, pronounced [lʲɛv nʲɪkɐˈlaɪvʲɪtɕ tɐlˈstoj] listen (help·info)), commonly...
 


News and Journals
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Monarch Notes
Works of Leo Tolstoy: Bibliography
01/01/1963: 303 words, approx. 1 pages
Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Bibliography Chief Writings Of Tolstoy: Tolstoy wrote constantly and voluminously throughout his long life. The complete Soviet edition of his works, published from 1928-1959, runs to ninety volumes. Most of these are not available in English. Of those availoble the student...
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National Review
Leo Tolstoy: resident and stranger.
07/31/1987: 849 words, approx. 3 pages
Tolstoy, by Pietro Citati, translated by Raymond Rosenthal (Schocken, 265 pp., $18.95) Leo Tolstoy: Resident and Stranger, by Richard Gustafson (Princeton, 480 pp., $29.50) TOLSTOI WAS A wealthy aristocrat, afeudal lord in a society that was still medieval. He led a privileged...
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The New York Observer
Dear Firstborn Sisters and Brothers,
6/26/2007: 603 words, approx. 2 pages
You must be feeling pretty good about yourselves these days, ever since those Norwegian epidemiologists conferred the equivalent of intellectual primogeniture on all of you. And truth be told, we’d be feeling pretty good about ourselves too if the report had gone the other way...
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AP News
Today in history - Oct. 14
10/14/2007: 656 words, approx. 2 pages
Today is Sunday, Oct. 14, the 287th day of 2007. There are 78 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Oct. 14, 1947, Air Force test pilot Charles E. ("Chuck") Yeager broke the sound barrier as he flew the experimental Bell XS-1 (later X-1)...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Renato Poggioli
27,173 words, approx. 91 pages
In the following essay, Poggioli compares Tolstoy's character and philosophical views with those of the character Alceste in Molière's play The Misanthrope.
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Critical Essay by Radoslav A. Tsanoff
10,286 words, approx. 34 pages
In the following essay, Tsanoff considers Tolstoy as a significant Christian leader in twentieth-century thought.
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Critical Essay by Ernest J. Simmons
7,663 words, approx. 26 pages
In the following essay, Simmons presents an overview of Tolstoy's philosophical writings.
 
Featured Essays
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Essay Grade: 84%
Tolstoys Children
917 words, approx. 3 pages
How Tolstoy uses his life encounter of people he knows and makes them characters in his book.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Leo Tolstoy Biography
839 words, approx. 3 pages
This essay discusses Leo Tolstoy and his influence on the world today.


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