Leo Tolstoy, Tolstoy also spelled Tolstoi, Russian in full Lev Nikolayevich, Graf (count) Tolstoy, (born August 28 [September 9, New Style], 1828, Yasnaya Polyana, Tula province, Russian Empiredied November 7 [November 20], 1910, Astapovo, Ryazan province), Russian author, a master of realistic fiction and one of the worlds greatest novelists.Tolstoy is best known for his two longest works, War and Peace (186569) and Anna Karenina (187577), which are commonly regarded as among the finest novels ever written. War and Peace in particular seems virtually to define this form for many readers and critics. Among Tolstoys shorter works, The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886) is usually classed among the best examples of the novella. Especially during his last three decades Tolstoy also achieved world renown as a moral and religious teacher. His doctrine of nonresistance to evil had an important influence on Gandhi. Although Tolstoys religious ideas no longer command the respect they once did, interest in his life and personality has, if anything, increased over the years.Most readers will agree with the assessment of the 19thcentury British poet and critic Matthew Arnold that a novel by Tolstoy is not a work of art but a piece of life the Russian author Isaak Babel commented that, if the world could write by itself, it would write like Tolstoy. Critics of diverse schools have agreed that somehow Tolstoys works seem to elude all artifice. Most have stressed his ability to observe the...

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