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Leo Tolstoy's Biography

Leo Tolstoy, or Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Никола́евич Толсто́й​ (help·info), Russian pronunciation: [lʲɛv nʲɪkɐˈlaɪvʲɪtɕ tɐlˈstoj]; September 9 [O.S. August 28] 1828 – November 20 [O.S. November 7] 1910), was a Russian writer widely regarded as among the greatest of novelists. His masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina represent in their scope, breadth and vivid depiction of 19th-century Russian life and attitudes, the peak of realist fiction.[citation needed]. But realism is not the peculiar artistic feature in which Tolstoy excels, as other writers deepened his descriptions and were equally good at vivid description; rather, it is Tolstoy's gifted method of picturing life which most pleasingly and exactly corresponds to our sense of time.

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  • MYSTAGOGY: Leo Tolstoy and the Orthodox Church
    Blog Source: www.johnsanidopoulos.com | 2 days ago
    [Since Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew referenced Leo Tolstoy as being an Orthodox Christian in his lecture a few days ago at Georgetown University, I thought I would remind Orthodox Christians that Leo Tolstoy not only was not ...
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    Blog Source: www.wowowow.com | 2 days ago
    Helen says it was an incredible experience to go back; she wanted to because she had made a film titled "The Last Station," which is about the final year in the life of the famed writer Leo Tolstoy. I, Liz, have always privately ...
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    Blog Source: www.3quarksdaily.com | 2 days ago
    Epic Russian novels, meanwhile, were pronounced dead after Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy. But in describing the brutalities of the second world war and the gulag, Vasily Grossman and Alexander Solzhenitsyn proved worthy heirs of ...
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