Tolstoy

Some fifty years ago Russian literature was practically unknown to Western Europe; by the majority of people its very existence seems to have been unsuspected; we find even so g...

His parents were Count Nicolas Tolstoy and Princess Marie Volkonsky, both of them members of well-known families. The Tolstoy family had played a famous, though at times a quest...

Soon after the capitulation of Sebastopol, Tolstoy, disgusted, with the mere idea of military glory, left military service and returned to St. Petersburg. He was received into t...

_War and Peace_ is the longest and most important of Tolstoy's single works. In this book Tolstoy aimed at giving the picture of a whole epoch, and that one of the most stirring...

_Anna Karénina_ is, perhaps, considered as a whole, a more artistic work than _War and Peace_; the very fact that its scope is less gigantic permits Tolstoy to make it clearer a...

We have seen that, in his fiftieth year, a great mental and moral change came over Tolstoy. The first of his religious works, _My Confession_, tells the story of this conversion...

Tolstoy has written but few dramas; among these stands pre-eminent the tragedy entitled _The Power of Darkness_. The scene is laid among peasants, and the work is didactic; as i...

Tolstoy's influence is a great and growing one, both in Europe as a whole and in England. He is the most powerful and impressive critic of our existing social order.