“But a man, unknown to us, who understood and took pity on the Tolstoy family, was found. He sent us a telegram: ‘Lev Nikolayevich is at Astapovo at the station master’s. His temperature is ...

The Russian literary artist, Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy [1828–1910], better known in the world over as Leo Tolstoy, is generally regarded as one of the most potent creative forces of world literature.

Masha was the only grown-up child with whom Tolstoy could be sentimental, allowing her to be sentimental with him too. Lev Nikolayevich was never tender with his other children. This was largely ...

The commune can trace its history back more than a hundred years. In 1894, when Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was at the height of his fame, a group of acolytes known as the Croydon Brotherhood ...

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, popularly known as Leo Tolstoy is considered one of the world’s greatest novelists. He was born to a Russian aristocratic family in 1828 and though he passed away ...

History: Leo Tolstoy Andrei Zorin Reaktion Books, €11.99 Portrait of the author Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy on his 80th birthday Books 3 Trying to read Leo Tolstoy's oeuvre with sufficient ...

“Hi, I am Daniil Tolstoy,” he says. He had flown in from Sweden, where he lives. As we catch up at the five-day programme, I learn that Daniil is the great-grandson of Lev Nikolayevich ...

On 17 September 1862, Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, aged 34, gave his diaries of the last 15 years to Sophia Andreevna Behrs, who had just turned 18. She was the second of three daughters and her ...

After the service, Father Kudryavtsev learned, from his conversation with the family of Lev Nikolayevich, that they were indignant at Chertkov, who, in their opinion, had held Count Tolstoy for ...

We’ve all huffed and puffed our way through War and Peace – our personal Everests. We’ve stayed up nights reading Anna Karenina and cried over The Death of Ivan Ilyich. Leo Tolstoy is a name ...

The division between Sophia Tolstoy and Vladimir Chertkov ... I was a true collaborator in everything Lev Nikolayevich undertook, and also the greatest admirer of his works.