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Few lives have been more examined, not least by himself, than Lev Tolstoy’s. Born in 1828 into the Russian nobility, the future author of “War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina” had reasons ...

Andrew Donskov's Tolstoy and Tolstaya charts the couple's life in letters. By Rowan Williams The 2009 film The Last Station, based on a fine book by Jay Parini and featuring Christopher Plummer and ...

Leon Trotsky wrote this tribute to the great Russian novelist on the occasion of Tolstoy’s eightieth birthday.

Russian literary and cultural icon Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy’s great-grandson talks about war and peace, and how non-violence is a forever theme ...

Count Lev Tolstoy led a life as epic as his fiction. You think War and Peace looks daunting? The poor biogra­pher must contend with 78 volumes of collected works and an 82-year life span through ...

October 16 marks the 70th anniversary of the premiere of one of the Soviet Union's most controversial operas -- "War and Peace," Sergei Prokofiev's musical interpretation of the novel by Lev Tolstoy.

From Making sense of Tolstoy Saturday, May 21st, 1988 Just as the 20th-century novel continually looks to Joyce, the 19th-century novel owes a huge debt to the eccentric Russian count for whom ...

Tolstoy A Russian Life Rosamund Bartlett Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 544 pp., $35 Count Lev Tolstoy is one of those writers who was as fascinating and complex as his novels and stories. A man so ...

Lev Tolstoy, of course, spans the whole. But Bartlett begins, in a sense, before the beginning, with a neat and illuminating account of his forebears.