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, 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

The complaint on which the warrant was issued was filed by Leo Blaber, an attorney for the association.

Pope Leo 13, on the 13th day of December 1898, granted the following indulgences: `` An indulgence of three hundred days is granted to all the Faithful who read the Holy Gospels at least a quarter of an hour.

In 1884, he was created by Pope Leo XIII Archbishop of Caesarea in partibus and sent to India as an Apostolic Delegate to report on the establishment of the hierarchy there.

Emperor Leo VI the Wise incorporated much of Aelian's text in his own work on the military art ( Τέχνη Τακτική ).

By decree of pope Leo X they were created papal nobles, ranking as Comes palatinus (' Count Palatine '), familiars and members of the papal household, so that they might enjoy all the privileges of domestic prelates and of prelates in actual attendance on the Pope, as regards plurality of benefices as well as expectives.

Rather, in modern times, the various autonomous houses have formed themselves loosely into congregations ( for example, Cassinese, English, Solesmes, Subiaco, Camaldolese, Sylvestrines ) that in turn are represented in the Benedictine Confederation that came into existence through Pope Leo XIII's Apostolic Brief " Summum semper " on July 12, 1883.

In the 730s Leo III carried out extensive repairs of the Theodosian walls, which had been damaged by frequent and violent attacks ; this work was financed by a special tax on all the subjects of the Empire.

About two years after Cyril of Alexandria's death in 444, an aged monk from Constantinople named Eutyches began teaching a subtle variation on the traditional Christology in an attempt ( as he described in a letter to Pope Leo I in 448 ) to stop a new outbreak of Nestorianism.

Leo I wrote that Eutyches ' error seemed to be more from a lack of skill on the matters than from malice.

The papal legates were not present for the vote on this canon, and protested it afterwards, and it was not ratified by Pope Leo in Rome.

In 1891 Pope Leo XIII promulgated Rerum Novarum, in which he addressed the " misery and wretchedness pressing so unjustly on the majority of the working class " and spoke of how " a small number of very rich men " had been able to " lay upon the teeming masses of the laboring poor a yoke little better than that of slavery itself .".

In Rerum Novarum, Leo XIII states that people are likely to work harder and with greater commitment if they themselves possess the land on which they labour, which in turn will benefit them and their families as workers will be able to provide for themselves and their household.

Following his father's death in 1948 and aided by Malcolm's chief engineer, Leo Villa, the younger Campbell strove to set speed records on land and water.

This portion was printed in 1514, but publication was delayed until 1522 by waiting for the Old Testament portion, and the sanction of Pope Leo X. Erasmus had been working for years on two projects: a collation of Greek texts and a fresh Latin New Testament.

Leo Fender, who did much to create the electric guitar, also created much confusion over the meaning of the terms " tremolo " and " vibrato " by the naming the " tremolo " unit on many of his guitars and also the " vibrato " unit on his " Vibrolux " amps.

Entering the service of Eberhard, prince-bishop of Liège, he was sent by that prelate on a mission to Rome, where Pope Leo X retained him, giving him ( 1519 ) the office of librarian of the Vatican.

Although both Leo VI and Nikephoros Phokas claim that the substance used in the cheirosiphōnes was the same as in the static devices used on ships, they were manifestly different from their larger cousins.

The Holy Roman Empire looked to Charlemagne, Charles the Great, King of the Franks, as its founder, who had been crowned Emperor of the Romans on Christmas Day in 800 by Pope Leo III.

He played Grace's husband, Dr. Leo Markus, on the TV sitcom Will & Grace from 2002 to 2006.

" Connick appeared as Grace Adler's boyfriend ( and later husband ) Leo Markus on the NBC sitcom Will & Grace from 2002 to 2006.

Various scholars on early Wiccan history, such as Ronald Hutton, Philip Heselton, and Leo Ruickbie concur that witchcraft's early rituals, as devised by Gardner, contained much from Crowley's writings such as the Gnostic Mass.