For many years, the Swedish Academy interpreted " ideal " as " idealistic " () and used it as a reason not to give the prize to important but less Romantic authors, such as Henrik Ibsen and Leo Tolstoy.

Leo Tolstoy was a prominent Russian author of the 19th century.

Leo Tolstoy, on the other hand, claims that what decides whether or not something is art is how it is experienced by its audience, not by the intention of its creator.

* Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art ?, Penguin Classics, 1995.

* Alexandra Tolstaya ( 1884 – 1979 ), daughter of Leo Tolstoy

Soldiers before this time had written treatises on various military subjects, but none had undertaken a great philosophical examination of war on the scale of those written by Clausewitz and Leo Tolstoy, both of which were inspired by the events of the Napoleonic Era.

Eye Care (" see if I care "), Russian chauffeur Pikov Andropov (" pick up and drop off "), Leo Tolstoy biographer Warren Peace (" War and Peace "), and law firm Dewey, Cheetham and Howe (" Do we cheat ' em?

* 1888: Leo Tolstoy becomes an early supporter.

* Leo Tolstoy ( 1828 – 1910 ).

The essay later influenced Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Martin Buber and Leo Tolstoy through its advocacy of nonviolent resistance.

The main early influences were the thought of Henry David Thoreau and Leo Tolstoy.

Leo Tolstoy, important theorist of christian anarchism and anarcho-pacifismChristian anarchism is a movement in political theology that combines anarchism and Christianity.

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For this and other reasons, including a belief by many Mormons in American exceptionalism, Molly Worthen speculates that this may be why Leo Tolstoy described Mormonism as the " quintessential ' American religion '".

* Henry David Thoreau: Influential American thinker on such diverse later political positions and topics such as pacifism, anarchism, environmentalism and civil disobedience who influenced later important political activists such as Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi and Leo Tolstoy.

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* War and Peace ( 1869 ) by Leo Tolstoy

In 1899, he traveled with Lou and her husband, Friedrich Andreas, to Moscow where he met the novelist Leo Tolstoy.

Leo Tolstoy handled ethical questions in his short stories, for example in " Ivan the Fool " ( 1885 ), " How Much Land Does a Man Need?

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.

Alexander Griboyedov satirized him in Woe from Wit, and his cousin Leo Tolstoy — who called him an " extraordinary, criminal, and attractive man " — fictionalized him as Dolokhov in War and Peace.

Ivan Kramskoi | Kramskoy's portrait of Leo Tolstoy ( 1873 )

Count Lev Nikolaevich ( 1828 – 1910 ), more widely known abroad as Leo Tolstoy is acclaimed as one of the greatest novelists of all time.

* Leo ( Lev ) Nikolayevich Tolstoy ( 1828 – 1910 ), writer and philosopher

Russian literature is known for such notable writers as Aleksandr Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Anton Chekhov, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Boris Pasternak, Anna Akhmatova, Joseph Brodsky, Maxim Gorky, Vladimir Nabokov, Mikhail Sholokhov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Andrei Platonov, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and Varlam Shalamov.

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.

Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky soon became internationally renowned to the point that many scholars such as F. R. Leavis have described one or the other as the greatest novelist ever.

In A Third Testament, he profiles seven spiritual thinkers, whom he called " God's Spies ", who influenced his life: Augustine of Hippo, William Blake, Blaise Pascal, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Søren Kierkegaard.

* Malcolm Muggeridge, A Third Testament, 1976, 1983, Little Brown and Company ( Examines the lives of St. Augustine, Blaise Pascal, William Blake, Soren Kierkegaard, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Retrieved 2011-05-29

Sovremennik published the works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ivan Turgenev, and Leo Tolstoy, as well as Nekrasov's own poetry and prose, among many other writers.

This inspired Akunin to create a detective novel which nobody would be ashamed to be caught reading, something between the literature of Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky and the pulp of modern Russian detective novels.

Other heroes Erast Fandorin is based upon are Andrei Bolkonski ( from Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace ), Prince Myshkin ( from Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot ) and Pechorin ( from Mikhail Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time ).

After two weeks of shooting, Malick was so disappointed with the dailies, he " decided to toss the script, go Leo Tolstoy instead of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, wide instead of deep shoot miles of film with the hope of solving the problems in the editing room.

Illegitimacy has for centuries provided a motif and plot element to works of fiction by prominent authors, including William Shakespeare, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Fielding, Voltaire, Jane Austen, Alexandre Dumas, père, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Anthony Trollope, Alexandre Dumas, fils, George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Thomas Hardy, C. S.

His very particular translating made available to the Czech literature works of Russian authors ( Aleksandr Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Sergei Yesenin, Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov ).

Garnett was one of the first English translators of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Anton Chekhov and introduced them on a wide basis to the English-speaking public.

The word was introduced in Western languages by its wide use in literature, mainly by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Leo Tolstoy.

He published more than 100 books, novels and biographies, among them those of Anton Chekhov, Catherine the Great, Rasputin, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ivan the Terrible and Leo Tolstoy.

Among the authors whose work he translated were Guy de Maupassant, Emile Zola, Maxim Gorky, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Anton Chekhov.

On the one hand it was praised by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Leo Tolstoy, while on the other it was severely criticised by such Occidentalists as Nikolai Kareev, Pavel Milyukov, and Nikolai Mikhailovsky.

In Maly Theatre at the same time Ilyinsky shifted to portrayals of deeply tragic characters, in particular, from Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Leo Tolstoy.

She acted in plays by Anton Chekhov, Aleksandr Ostrovsky, Maxim Gorky, Ivan Krylov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, and others.