The foundation of Christian anarchism is a rejection of violence, with Leo Tolstoy's The Kingdom of God Is Within You regarded as a key text.

The Nazi invasion of the USSR spurred him to compose his most ambitious work, an operatic version of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace.

Prokofiev had been considering making an opera out of Leo Tolstoy's epic novel War and Peace, when news of the German invasion of Russia on 22 June 1941 made the subject seem all the more timely.

* Sophia Andreyevna Tolstaya ( 1844 – 1919 ), Leo Tolstoy's wife

* Tatyana Sukhotina-Tolstaya ( 1864 – 1950 ), Leo Tolstoy's oldest daughter

* Official site of Leo Tolstoy's family and museum

* Boston ( played in 19th century Europe, favored by Count Rostov in Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace )

* In the opening chapter of Leo Tolstoy's novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich the characters contrast the solemnity of the funeral ceremony with the desire to escape and play whist.

* Leo Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina is published complete in book form.

* Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace is published complete in book form.

* Leo Tolstoy's first novel, Childhood, is published in book form.

* Leo Tolstoy's epic novel, War and Peace recounts Napoleon's wars between 1805 and 1812 ( especially the disastrous 1812 invasion of Russia and subsequent retreat ) from a Russian perspective.

In some novels, the protagonists may be impossible to identify, because multiple plots in the novel do not permit clear identification of one as the main plot, such as in Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The First Circle, depicting a variety of characters imprisoned and living in a gulag camp, or in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, depicting 15 major characters involved in or affected by a war.

Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1831 ) furnishes another 19th-century example of the romantic-historical novel as does Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace.

* Strider, standard English title of Leo Tolstoy's novella Kholstomer

Nilsson is mentioned briefly in Leo Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina.

The Battle of Austerlitz is a major event in Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace.

Albert Roussel's first symphonic poem, based on Leo Tolstoy's novel Resurrection ( 1903 ), was soon followed by Le Poème de forêt ( 1904-6 ), which is in four movements written in cyclic form.

In addition to its mention in Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina as well as in a protracted episode in War and Peace, the dance is prominently featured in Ivan Turgenev's novel Fathers and Sons.

Alexander Pushkin addressed the Field Marshal in the famous elegy on Kutuzov's sepulchre, and he also figures as a patient and wise leader in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace.

" Also similar sentiments are said to be among Leo Tolstoy's last words when urged to convert back to the Russian Orthodox Church: " Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

* In Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, the character Natasha Rostov, after changing wet nurses three times, elected to nurse her children herself despite opposition from her husband, mother, and doctors.

This affair is commemorated in the opening of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace.

" The Gates of Delirium " is a dense, 22-minute piece that was inspired by Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace.

* War and Peace ( 1869 ) by Leo Tolstoy

In 1869 he spent several months in Heidelberg working with Robert Bunsen and Leo Königsberger and then in 1871 he was with Gustav Kirchhoff and Hermann von Helmholtz in Berlin.

The novel has been compared to War and Peace ( 1869 ) by Leo Tolstoy.

The story of Sophonisba also served as subject for works by John Marston ( 1606 ), David Murray ( 1610 ), Nathaniel Lee ( 1676 ), Daniel Caspar von Lohenstein ( 1680 ), Henry Purcell ( 1685 ), Antonio Caldara ( 1708 ), Leonardo Leo ( 1718 ), Luca Antonio Predieri ( 1722 ), James Thomson ( 1729 ), Niccolò Jommelli ( 1746 ), Baldassare Galuppi ( 1747, 1764 ), Tommaso Traetta ( 1762 ), Antonio Boroni ( 1764 ), Christopher Gluck ( 1765 ), Maria Teresa Agnesi ( 1765 ), Mattia Vento ( 1766 ), François Joseph Lagrange-Chancel, revised by Voltaire ( 1770 ), Christian Gottlob Neefe ( 1776 ), António Leal Moreira ( 1783 ), Joseph Joaquín Mazuelo ( 1784 ), Vittorio Alfieri ( 1789 ), Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi ( 1802 ), Marcos Portugal ( 1803 ), Ferdinando Paer ( 1805 ), Vincenzo Federici ( 1805 ), Luigi Petrali ( 1844 ), Emanuel Geibel ( 1869 ), Jeronim de Rada ( 1892 ), Giuseppe Brunati ( 1904 ), Dimitrie Cuclin ( 1945 ), Vasco Graça Moura ( 1993 ), and others.

In 1869 Leo Tolstoy published War and Peace.

Directed by John Schlesinger and based on a novel by James Leo Herlihy, the film struck a chord with critics and audiences.

The political economy of struggle was criticised as a British stereotype by Karl Marx and by Leo Tolstoy, who had the character Levin in his novel Anna Karenina voice sharp criticism of the morality of Darwin's views.

Most of Stein's important works utilize this technique, including the novel The Makings of Americans ( 1906 – 08 ) Not only were they the first important patrons of Cubism, Gertrude Stein and her brother Leo were also important influences on Cubism as well.

* Fata Morgana, a 1999 science fiction novel by Leo Frankowski

* Anna Karenina, a novel by Leo Tolstoy

* Leo Bloom is named for the protagonist of James Joyce's classic novel Ulysses, Leopold Bloom.

Bialystock at one point calls Leo " Prince Myshkin ", the titular protagonist in Dostoevsky's novel The Idiot.

He is best known for his works A Long Day ’ s Dying ( his first work, published in 1950 ); The Book of Bebb, a tetralogy based on the character Leo Bebb published in 1979 ; Godric, a first person narrative of the life of the medieval saint, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1981 ; Brendan, a second novel narrating a saint ’ s life, published in 1987 ; Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner ( 1992 ); and his autobiographical works The Sacred Journey ( 1982 ), Now and Then ( 1983 ), Telling Secrets ( 1991 ), and The Eyes of the Heart: Memoirs of the Lost and Found ( 1999 ).

In The Realists, an examination of the work of eight novelists – Stendhal, Honoré de Balzac, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Benito Pérez Galdós, Henry James and Marcel Proust – Snow makes a robust defence of the realistic novel.

Dostoyevsky offered his story or novella ( at the time Dostoyevsky was not thinking of a novel ) to the publisher Mikhail Katkov, whose monthly journal, The Russian Messenger, was a prestigious publication of its kind, and the outlet for both Ivan Turgenev and Leo Tolstoy.

Leo Bloom King is the protagonist and narrator of Pat Conroy's 2009 novel South of Broad.

* War and Peace ( 1966-67 ) an Oscar-winning Soviet adaptation of the novel by Leo Tolstoy, was partially filmed in the Winter Palace.

Alexander Pushkin addressed poems to his Decembrist friends, Nikolai Nekrasov wrote a long poem about the Decembrist wives, and Leo Tolstoy started writing a novel on that liberal movement, which would later evolve into War and Peace.