Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828–1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. He received nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906 and for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902, and 1909. Born to an aristocratic Russian family in 1828, Tolstoy is best known for the novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1878), often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction. He first achieved literary acclaim in his twenties with his semi-autobiographical trilogy, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth (1852–1856), and Sevastopol Sketches (1855), based upon his experiences in the Crimean War. His fiction includes dozens of short stories and several novellas such as The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886), Family Happiness (1859), and Hadji Murad (1912). He also wrote plays and numerous philosophical essays. In the 1870s Tolstoy experienced a profound moral crisis, followed by what he regarded as an equally profound spiritual awakening, as outlined in his non-fiction work A Confession (1882). His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him to become a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1894), had a profound impact on such pivotal 20th-century figures as Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. He also became a dedicated advocate of Georgism, the economic philosophy of Henry George, which he incorporated into his writing, particularly Resurrection (1899).
Resurrection
(Novel)
Posle bala
(Short Story)
War and Peace
(Novel)
The Kreutzer Sonata
(Novel)
Kreutzer Sonata
(Novel)
War and Peace
(Novel)
L'Argent
(Story)
Anna Karenina
(Novel)
The Kreutzer Sonata
(Novel)
Prisoner of the Mountains
(Story)
Anna Karenina
(Novel)
The Woman of the Port
(Story)
Anna Karenina
(Novel)
Boxing Day
(Story)
Why?
(Author)
Les Nuits blanches de Saint-Pétersbourg
(Novel)
2 Jacks
(Story)
ivans xtc.
(Novel)
Redemption
(Novel)
A Corpse Living
(Theatre Play)
Katyusha
(Story)
Albert
(Novel)
A Simple Death
(Novel)
St. Michael Had a Rooster
(Novel)
Chouga
(Novel)
Anna Karenina
(Novel)
Die Macht der Finsternis
(Theatre Play)
Love
(Novel)
The Kreutzer Sonata
(Short Story)
We Live Again
(Novel)
Детство. Отрочество. Юность
(Story)
Kreutzer Sonata
(Writer)
War and Peace
(Book)
Anna Karenina
(Novel)
Lovers Without Love
(Novel)
War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova
(Novel)
War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky
(Novel)
War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov
(Novel)
War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812
(Novel)
The River of Love
(Writer)
Kreutzer Sonata
(Story)
The Weakness of Man
(Theatre Play)
Beautiful stranger
(Novel)
Resurrection
(Novel)
The Living Corpse
(Story)
Things against the law
(Author)
Die Erkenntnis
(Story)
Resurrection
(Original Story)
Résurrection
(Story)
Resurrection
(Novel)
Anna
(Original Story)
Forbidden Love
(Novel)
Caucasian Prisoner
(Book)
Father Sergius
(Novel)
Greed Eats the Soul
(Original Story)
A Day in the Country
(Original Story)
The White Warrior
(Novel)
Anna Karenina
(Book)
The Light Shines in the Darkness
(Original Story)
Anna Karenina
(Writer)
Resurrection
(Novel)
Anna Karenina
(Novel)
Anna Karenina
(Novel)
Anna Karenina
(Novel)
Anna Karenina
(Novel)
Anna Karenina
(Novel)
Anna Karenina
(Novel)
Anna Karenine
(Novel)
Winter Thaw
(Novel)
Polikuschka
(Story)
Frozen Land
(Novel)
The White Devil
(Novel)
The Vampire
(Short Story)
Scarabea – How Much Land Does a Man Need?
(Novel)
What Men Live By
(Story)
Man by the Roadside
(Novel)
Celos
(Novel)
Resurrection
(Original Story)
Green, Bygone...
(Short Story)
The Kreutzer Sonata
(Story)
Resurrection
(Novel)
The Living Corpse
(Theatre Play)
The Jump
(Short Story)
Семейное счастье
(Book)
Martin the Cobbler
(Writer)
Kazakebi
(Novel)
Anna Karenina
(Novel)
The Kreutzer Sonata
(Story)
Coming to You
(Novel)
The Living Corpse
(Theatre Play)
Auferstehung. Katjuscha Maslowa
(Story)
Anna Karenina
(Writer)
Anna Karenina. The Intimate Diary
(Story)
Atonement
(Story)
Also People
(Novel)
Anna Karenina
(Novel)
Die Kreutzersonate
(Story)
Anna Karenina. Vronsky's Story
(Novel)
Father Sergius
(Novel)
Dark as the Night. Anna Karenina
(Screenplay)
The Cossacks
(Novel)
The Living Corpse
(Theatre Play)
War and Peace
(Novel)
Polikushka
(Story)
Der lebende Leichnam
(Story)
Resurrection
(Novel)
Resurrection
(Novel)
Her Boy
(Short Story)
Старая азбука
(Writer)
Resurrezione
(Novel)
The Living Corpse
(Story)
The First Distiller
(Theatre Play)
The Living Corpse
(Theatre Play)
Master and Servant
(Book)
Master and Servant
(Book)
The Power of Darkness
(Theatre Play)
A Woman's Resurrection
(Novel)
War and Peace
(Novel)
Anna Karenina
(Novel)
Anna Karenina
(Novel)
War and Peace
(Novel)
Lemmi und die Schmöker
(Story)
Anna K
(Original Story)
War and Peace
(Screenplay)
Anna Karenina
(Novel)
War & Peace
(Novel)
War and Peace
(Creator)