Although detested by contemporaries, Tolstoy was made a count for his part in securing the throne for Catherine I.

" Before even a line of Kafka's most famous work had been made public, Brod had already praised him as " the greatest poet of our time ", ranking with Goethe or Tolstoy.

" He contributed to a legal defence fund set up to help Nikolai Tolstoy, who was charged with libel in a 1989 case brought by Lord Aldington over war crimes allegations made by Tolstoy related to this operation.

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 ).

She developed an attachment to the composer which embarrassed her children and made Tolstoy jealous, though Taneyev himself remained unaware of it.

For this, Tolstoy earned the undying hatred of the majority of the Russian people ; but Tsar Peter I naturally regarded it as an inestimable service and loaded Tolstoy with honors and riches, appointing him, moreover, the head of the Secret Chancellery, or official torture chamber, a post for which Tolstoy, nearly 80 years old by then, was by nature eminently fitted, as his vigorous prosecution of the Mons Affair ( 1724 ) made clear.

Pyotr Tolstoy is the author of a sketch of the impressions made upon him by Western Europe during his tour in the years 1697 – 1698 and also of a detailed description of the Black Sea.

Apollon Grigoriev ( who in 1852 wrote: " The Muff is the ... artistic antidote to the sickly rubbish the ' natural school ' authors produce ") ten years later went even further: writing in Dostoevsky's Grazhdanin journal, he came up with a concept, according to which Pisemsky with his " low-brow wholesomeness " was by far more important to Russian literature than Goncharov ( with his " affected nods to narrow-minded pragmatism "), Turgenev ( who " surrendered to all the false values ") and even Lev Tolstoy ( who's " made his way to artlessness in the most artful manner ").

Pisemsky's ' soil ', as Anninsky saw it, was doomed from the start: stronger authors ( Tolstoy and Turgenev, in particular ) entered the scene, created new, more interesting characters, re-worked this very same soil and made it their own.

In 1996 the Court of Appeal upheld an order Aldington had obtained that made lawyers acting for Tolstoy pro bono parties to the case, and thereby jointly liable with Tolstoy for any costs or damages awarded to Aldington.

Yakov Protazanov made Departure of a Grand Old Man, a biographical film about Lev Tolstoy.

He graduated from the School of Jurisprudence in 1843, was admitted to the Imperial Academy of Arts in 1859, and was made honorary fellow of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1900, together with his friend Leo Tolstoy.

His later works show the lasting influence of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Leo Tolstoy but he also felt attracted to the philosophy of Johann Gottlieb Fichte and the French mutualist anarchism of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and the socialist anarchism theories of Mikhail Bakunin and especially the communist anarchism of Peter Kropotkin.

He began to read large numbers of books, but counted only a handful as having an impression on him later in life, primarily works by Gorky, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky.

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.

Tolstoy defined art ( and by no coincidence also characterized its value ) as the following: " Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings and also experience them.

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.

A 1927 Soviet poster advertising the 1924 movie Aelita: Queen of Mars, based on the novel by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy | Aleksey Tolstoy.

* 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.

* Russian cuisine developed a significant vegetarian tradition in czarist time, based on the example of Leo Tolstoy.

They include: peace movements, strikes, labor unions, long hair on men, The Beatles, other modern and popular music (" la musique populaire "), Sophocles, Leo Tolstoy, Aeschylus, writing that Socrates was homosexual, Eugène Ionesco, Jean-Paul Sartre, Anton Chekhov, Harold Pinter, Edward Albee, Mark Twain, Samuel Beckett, the bar association, sociology, international encyclopedias, free press, and new math.

In November 2004, Nikolai Tolstoy published Patrick O ' Brian: The Making of the Novelist, the first volume in a two-part biography of O ' Brian using material from the Russ and Tolstoy families and sources, including O ' Brian's personal papers and library, which Tolstoy inherited on O ' Brian's death.

Nikolai Tolstoy also possesses an extensive collection of O ' Brian manuscript material, including the second half of Hussein, several short stories, much of the reportedly " lost " book on Bestiaries, letters, diaries, journals, notes, poems, book reviews, and several unpublished short stories ( Tolstoy, various pages ).

Tolstoy was founded in 1907 by Germans from Russia, as a station stop on a branch line of the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway built that year between Conde and LeBeau, South Dakota.

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.

The Tolstoyan movement is a social movement based on the philosophical and religious views of Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy ( 1828 – 1910 ).

Tolstoy rejected the state ( as it only exists on the basis of physical force ) and all institutions that are derived from it-the police, law courts and army.

Left to right ; Christoper Arkell & Lord Nicholas Hervey ( standing ) Gregory Lauder-Frost ( speaking to Arkell ), Countess Georgina Tolstoy, Count Nikolai Tolstoy ( seated under picture ), unknown man, Merlin Hanbury-Tracy, 7th Baron Sudeley | Lord Sudeley and John P Bullen Stean ( with glasses ) at a dinner on 12 March 1990, at London's United Oxford & Cambridge Club

The Tolstoy family focuses on the romantic limitations of marriage, and Anna Karenina prefers death to being married to her fiancé, however this is because she is tired of waiting and being hidden away from public, when her fiance makes failed attempts to get his mother's approval of the marriage.

In 1897, Leo Tolstoy, in his What is Art ?, criticized Baumgarten's book on aesthetics.

; Leo Tolstoy: Leo Tolstoy ( 1828 – 1910 ) wrote extensively on his anarchist principles, which he arrived at via his Christian faith, in his books The Kingdom of God is Within You, What I Believe ( aka My Religion ), The Law of Love and the Law of Violence, and Christianity and Patriotism which criticised government and the Church in general.

This led Krupskaya to study many of Tolstoy ’ s works, including his theories of reformation.

Journalist Bee Wilson states that the image of a community of honey bees " occurs from ancient to modern times, in Aristotle and Plato ; in Virgil and Seneca ; in Erasmus and Shakespeare ; Tolstoy, as well as by social theorists Bernard Mandeville and Karl Marx.

According to Tolstoy, the significance of great individuals is imaginary ; as a matter of fact they are only history's slaves realizing the decree of Providence.

Fonda next acted in Paramount Pictures's production of the Leo Tolstoy epic War and Peace ( 1956 ), in which he played Pierre Bezukhov opposite Audrey Hepburn ; it took two years to shoot.

" This image occurs in Aristotle and Plato ; in Virgil and Seneca ; in Erasmus and Shakespeare ; in Marx and Tolstoy.

* First Nobel Prize for Literature awarded, to French poet Sully Prudhomme ; many are outraged when Leo Tolstoy does not win.

His writing was critical of Christianity and strongly influenced by socialism ; emotionally intense, humanistic, and employed ideas from the Bible, Tolstoy, and anarchic socialism.

# Leo Tolstoy – War and Peace ; Anna Karenina ; What is Art?

Leo Tolstoy spent summers there and Anton Chekhov in 1898 bought a house ( the White Dacha ) here, where he lived till 1902 ; Yalta is the setting for Chekhov's short story, " The Lady with the Dog ", and such prominent plays as The Three Sisters were written in Yalta.

Oesterheld was influenced by anti-war authors, such as Erich Maria Remarque, Stephen Crane or Leo Tolstoy ; as well as by the career of the mentioned Ernie Pyle.

* Leo Tolstoy ( 1886 – 94 ) What I Believe ; and The Kingdom of God Is Within You.

# Leo Tolstoy – War and Peace ; Anna Karenina ; " What Is Art?

Constantin Stanislavski, the Russian theatre practitioner, had wanted to stage the play in 1895 ; he had persuaded Tolstoy to rewrite act four along lines that Stanislavski had suggested, but the production did not materialise.

Historically, the third-person omniscient perspective has been the most commonly used ; it is seen in countless classic novels, including works by Jane Austen, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot.

; 1897 ) is an essay by Leo Tolstoy in which he argues against numerous aesthetic theories which define art in terms of the good, truth, and especially beauty.