Leo Tolstoy: Famous Book by Kalyani Mookherji: Leo Tolstoy
Jan 2020 · Prabhat Prakashan
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The Tolstoys were a well-known family of old Russian nobility; tracing their ancestry to a mythical Lithuanian noble Indris. He was the fourth of five children of Count Nikolai Ilyich Tolstoy; a veteran of the Patriotic War of 1812; and Countess Mariya Tolstaya (Volkonskaya). His teachers described him as "both unable and unwilling to learn.Tolstoy left the university in the middle of his studies; returned to Yasnaya Polyana and then spent much of his time in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. In 1851; after running up heavy gambling debts; he went with his older brother to the Caucasus and joined the army. It was about this time that he started writing. Tolstoy is one of the giants of Russian literature; his works include the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina and novellas such as Hadji Murad and The Death of Ivan Ilyich. His contemporaries paid him lofty tributes. Fyodor Dostoyevsky thought him the greatest of all living novelists. Gustave Flaubert; on reading a translation of War and Peace; exclaimed; "What an artist and what a psychologist!" Anton Chekhov; who often visited Tolstoy at his country estate; wrote; "When literature possesses a Tolstoy; it is easy and pleasant to be a writer; even when you know you have achieved nothing yourself and are still achieving nothing; this is not as terrible as it might otherwise be; because Tolstoy achieves for everyone. What he does serves to justify all the hopes and aspirations invested in literature." The 19th-century British poet and critic Matthew Arnold opined that "a novel by Tolstoy is not a work of art but a piece of life" According to some sources; Tolstoy spent the last hours of his life preaching love; nonviolence; and Georgism to his fellow passengers on the train.
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