Leo tolstoy anna7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() He is best known, however, for his two major novels: War and Peace (partially serialized 1865-1867, published in its entirety in 1869), and Anna Karenina (serialized 1873-1877, published in book form 1878). Tolstoy wrote a wide variety of fiction and nonfiction throughout his career, much of which explored the ideals he espoused. ![]() ![]() His ideals led him to found 13 schools for the children of the recently emancipated serfs (short-lived, due in part to police harassment), to work alongside the laborers on his estate, and to become an anarchist and an advocate for nonviolence (including a correspondence with a young Mohandas Gandhi). After failing to complete a college degree and running up major gambling debts, he joined the army and fought in the Crimean War, an experience which led him to start writing and influenced the increasingly pacifist, mystical version of Christianity which he practiced more fervently over the years. ![]() Ĭount Leo Tolstoy (Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy in Russian-“Leo” was chosen for his English publications because “Lev” means “lion”) was born in 1828 on an estate 200 km south of Moscow. Note: This is a guest posting from Zev Valancy, dramaturg for our Winter MainStage production of Anna Karenina. ![]()
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