Leo Tolstoy

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Roushie: Лев Никола́евич Толсто́й, pronounced [lʲef nʲɪkɐˈlaɪvʲɪt͡ɕ tɐlˈstoj] ( listen); 9 September [A.S. 28 August] 1828 – 20 November [A.S. 7 November] 1910), kent as Leo Tolstoy an aw, wis a Roushie writer that is regairdit as ane o the greatest authors o aw time.^[1] He received multiple nominations for Nobel Prize in Leeteratur ivery year frae 1902 tae 1906, an nominations for Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902 an 1910, an his miss o the prize is a major Nobel prize controversy.^[2][3][4][5]

Leo Tolstoy
Tolstoy photographed at his Yasnaya Polyana estate in Mey 1908 bi Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky.
Born	Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy 9 September 1828(1828-09-09) Yasnaya Polyana, Roushie Empire
Dee'd	20 November 1910(1910-11-20) (aged 82) Astapovo, Roushie Empire
Thrift	Novelist, short story writer, playwricht, essayist
Leid	Roushie, French
Naitionality	Roushie
Period	1852–1910
Notable warks	War and Peace Anna Karenina A Confession The Kingdom of God Is Within You Resurrection
Spoose	Sophia Tolstaya
Bairns	14
Signatur
Leo Tolstoy's voice recordit 1908

Born tae an aristocratic Roushie faimily in 1828,^[1] he is best kent for the novelles War an Peace (1869) an Anna Karenina (1877),^[6] eften citit as pinnacles o realist feection.^[1] He first achieved leeterar acclaim in his twenties wi his semi-autobiografical trilogy, Bairnheid, Ladheid, an Youth (1852–1856), an Sevastopol Sketches (1855), based upon his experiences in the Crimean War. Tolstoy's feection includes dizens o short stories an several novellas sic as The Daith o Ivan Ilyich (1886), Family Happiness (1859), and Hadji Murad (1912). He an aw wrote plays an numerous filosofical essays.

In the 1870s Tolstoy experienced a profoond moral creesis, follaed bi whit he regairdit as an equally profoond speeritual awaukenin, as ootlined in his non-feection wark A Confession (1882). His leeteral interpretation o the ethical teachins o Jesus, centrein on the Sermon on the Munt, caused him tae acome a fervent Christian anarchist an pacifist.^[1] Tolstoy's ideas on nonveeolent reseestance, expressed in sic warks as The Kinrick o God Is Within Ye (1894), war tae hae a profoond impact on sic pivotal 20t-century feegurs as Mahatma Gandhi^[7] an Martin Luther King Jr.^[8] Tolstoy an aw becam a dedicatit advocate o Georgism, the economic filosofie o Henry George, that he incorporatit intae his writin, pairteecularly Resurrection (1899).