You probably know the opening line of this masterpiece, even if you haven’t read the book.

When you think about the great works of Russian literature, chances are your mind immediately goes to author Leo Tolstoy. His novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina captivated readers when they ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Leo and Sophia Tolstoy were married 48 years. Russian writer and philosopher Leo Tolstoy created many literary masterpieces during ...

For mountain climbers, one imagines that Mt. Everest looms as the ultimate climb to validate one’s ability. For runners, it would be the Boston Marathon, for triathletes the Iron Man? Which meant I ...

Russian novelist and realistic fiction extraordinaire, Leo Tolstoy, is regarded as one of the most exceptional writers of all time. He's published over 24 novels, among them, War and Peace, Anna ...

Five years ago, after extensive research, Ernest J. Simmons began his two-volume life and appraisal of Russia’s great writer, Leo Tolstoy. In the first half of this biography, chapters of which were ...

Leo Tolstoy's profound assertion challenges the assumption that morality is dictated by the majority. Through history, it ...

Marking the death of Leo Tolstoy 110 years ago on November 20, we present photos from the life of one of Russia's greatest writers. 1 Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy poses for a portrait at the age of 20. The ...

Who does not know him! Leo Tolstoy was among the world's greatest writers, philosophers and moral thinkers. His novels changed the face of literature for ever and his later writings on morality, ...

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy—anglicized as Leo Tolstoy—was born in 1828 near Tula, Russia. He traced his ancestry to a legendary man named Indris, who migrated to the Ukraine in the 1300s. Indris ...

Matthew Arnold once said that a novel by Tolstoy isn’t a work of art but a piece of life. It’s hard to conceive of higher praise than that for a novelist, whose difficult task is to distill the human ...