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

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.

Andrey Kharitonovich Tolstoy was in turn a great-grandson of some Indris who was " a man of distinguished ancestry " who came from " the Germans, the Caesar's lands " ( the Holy Roman Empire ) to Chernigov, accompanied by his sons Litvinos and Zimonten and a force of 3000 men.

It was Okolnichi Peter Andreevich Tolstoy who decided the family fortune by casting his lot with the party of Peter the Great.

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

The most famous of 19th-century Tolstoy politicians was Count Dmitri Andreevich ( 1823 – 89 ), successively the Minister of Education, Minister of Interior and President of the Academy of Science.

Count Feodor Petrovich Tolstoy ( 1783 – 1873 ), sympathetically mentioned by Pushkin in Eugene Onegin, was one of the most fashionable Russian drawers and painters of the 1820s.

Count Feodor Ivanovich Tolstoy ( 1782 – 1846 ) was a notorious drunkard, gastronome, and duellist.

However, Proust wrote later in life that the contemporary fashion to rank Balzac higher than Tolstoy was " madness.

Her pacifism was influenced by the writings of Immanuel Kant, Henry Thomas Buckle, Herbert Spencer, Charles Darwin and Leo Tolstoy ( Tolstoy praised Die Waffen nieder!

At 24 years of age, Mao Dun was already renowned as a novelist by the community in general, and in 1920, he and a group of young writers took over the magazine Xiaoshuo Yuebao ( 小说月报 ), which translated means " fiction monthly ", to publish literature by western authors, such as Tolstoy, Chekhov, Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Byron, Keats, Shaw, etc., and make new theories of literature better known.

Despite the fact that he was a naturalistic novelist, he admired writers like Leo Tolstoy, for their great artistic style.

The story was later retold and elaborated by Ausonius in The Masque of the Seven Sages, in the Suda ( entry " Μᾶλλον ὁ Φρύξ ," which adds Aesop and the Seven Sages of Greece ), and by Tolstoy in his short story Croesus and Fate.

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.

Count Nikolai Tolstoy proposes that Brân's original function was that of a psychopomp, guiding the souls of the dead to the Otherworld.

His mother has said that she named him after her favorite Russian author, Leo Tolstoy, while his father has stated that Schreiber was named after the doctor who saved his mother's life.

The main precedent was Henry David Thoreau, who, through his work Civil Disobedience, influenced both Leo Tolstoy and Mohandas Gandhi's advocacy of Nonviolent resistance.

* Alexandra Tolstaya, daughter of Russian author Leo Tolstoy, was a resident of the town in later life, organized the Tolstoy Foundation Center, which President Herbert Hoover was the First Honorary Chairman during the years of 1939-1964.

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.

In the 1920s, Russian expatriates Count Ilya Tolstoy ( son of author Leo Tolstoy ) and George Grebentschikoff founded an artists ' colony at one end of Main Street, known as Churaevka ( or " Russian Village ").

* The Tolstoy Foundation of Valley Cottage, founded in 1939 by Alexandra Lvovna Tolstoy, youngest daughter of Leo Tolstoy

She left Soviet Union in 1929, and settled in the United States, where she founded the Tolstoy Foundation.

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.

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.

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.

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 '".

After having spoken to Maxim Rudometkin, Tolstoy found no basis for his life imprisonment, and so by favor of the Grand Duke, had him reassigned closer to his home at the Suzdal Monastery prison where he remained for 9 years.

* War and Peace ( 1869 ) by Leo Tolstoy

Capturing them, he decided against hanging them ( apparently yielding to established law procedures in place of vigilante justice ), and sending his foreman back by boat, he took the thieves back overland for trial in Dickinson, guarding them forty hours without sleep and reading Tolstoy to keep himself awake.

Tolkien, by science fiction writers like Philip K. Dick, by central figures of Western literature like Leo Tolstoy, Virgil and The Brontë sisters, and including feminist writers like Virginia Woolf, by children's literature like Alice in Wonderland, The Wind in the Willows and The Jungle Book, by Norse mythology, and by books from the Eastern tradition such as the Tao Te Ching.

Leo Tolstoy held Lichtenberg's writings in high esteem, expressing his perplexity of " why the Germans of the present day neglect this writer so much.

Tolstoy, or Tolstoi () is a prominent family of Russian nobility, descending from Andrey Kharitonovich Tolstoy (" the Fat ") who served under Vasily II of Moscow.

Alexander Ivanovich Tolstoy ( 1770 – 1857 ), stemming from a collateral branch of the family, inherited the committal title and estates of his childless uncle, the last of the Ostermanns.

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.

For the same reason, Wright rejected an invitation from the Congress for Cultural Freedom to go to India to speak at a conference in memory of Leo Tolstoy.

* In a famous scene from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Nicholas Rostov loses 43, 000 rubles to Dolokhov playing Faro.

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.

* Tolstoy history from the Tolstoy Diamond Jubilee Historical Book

To illustrate what he means by defamiliarization, Shklovsky uses examples from Tolstoy, whom he cites as using the technique throughout his works: “ The narrator of ' Kholstomer ,' for example, is a horse, and it is the horse ’ s point of view ( rather than a person ’ s ) that makes the content of the story seem unfamiliar ” ( Shklovsky 16 ).

But again, Jacob retreated from the growing interest and fame and took nine months off, spending most of her time reading Tolstoy, Balzac, Singer, and several autobiographies.

The short stories of Leo Tolstoy, who was present at the siege, give a graphic picture of the war from the Russian point of view, portraying the miseries of the desert march, the still greater miseries of life in the casemates, and the almost daily ordeal of manning the lines, under shell-fire, against an assault which might or might not come.

* Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy wrote the supernatural love story Count Cagliostro where the Count brings to life a long dead Russian Princess, materializing her from her portrait.

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

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.

Michael Wynne-Parker had been Principal Secretary from the late 1970s, and following the Marquess of Bristol's death also became the league's Acting Chancellor until 1987 when Count Nikolai Tolstoy was appointed to that position.

He was the first in Europe to interpret characters from August Strindberg, Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Luigi Pirandello, and Hugo von Hofmannsthal.

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 A Confession, Leo Tolstoy, a famous Russian writer, spoke of running away from his troubled life by drinking kumis.