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Tolstoy - interactive biography

by Evgeny Erohin

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App Details

Version
3.0
Rating
NA
Size
25Mb
Genre
Education Trivia
Last updated
April 16, 2016
Release date
January 20, 2016
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Study the biographies of great people through interactive reading.
Become a real expert and participate in the global rankings of erudites.

Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. Born to an aristocratic Russian family in 1828, he is best known for the novels War and Peace, and Sevastopol Sketches, based upon his experiences in the Crimean War. Tolstoy's fiction includes dozens of short stories and several novellas such as The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Family Happiness, and Hadji Murad. He also wrote plays and numerous philosophical essays. In the 1870s Tolstoy experienced a profound moral crisis, followed by what he regarded as an equally profound spiritual awakening, as outlined in his non-fiction work A Confession. His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him to become a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist. Tolstoy's ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal 20th-century figures as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. Tolstoy was born at Yasnaya Polyana, a family estate located 12 kilometres....

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