Tolstoy,Count Leo

Tolstoy,Count Leo
Tol·stoy or Tol·stoi (tōlʹstoi, tŏlʹ-, təl-stoiʹ), Count Leo or Lev Nikolayevich 1828-1910.
Russian writer and philosopher whose great novels War and Peace (1864-1869) and Anna Karenina (1873-1876) offer extraordinary detail and profound psychological insights. His later theories of ethics and morality recommended nonparticipation in and passive resistance to evil.
  Tol·stoyʹan or Tol·stoiʹan adj. & n.

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