According to a much later genealogical fable, Andrey Kharitonovich Tolstoy was in turn a great-grandson of some Indris who was "a man of distinguished ancestory". Indris allegedly came from the Holy Roman Empire to Chernigov, accompanied by his sons Litvinos and Zimonten and a force of 3000 men (a derivative of the similar fable utilised by Lithuanian nobles from the 16th century, giving homage to the Tolstoys' Lithuan ...

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Many of the Tolstoys devoted their spare time to literary pursuits. For instance, Count Alexei Konstantinovich (1817–75) was a courtier but also one of the most popular Russian poets of his time. He wrote admirable ballads, a historical novel, some licentious verse, and satires published under the penname of Kozma Prutkov. His lasting contribution to the Russian literature was a trilogy of his ...

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Letter to a Hindu was a letter written by Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy in 1908 to an Indian Newspaper which sparked a relationship between the pacifist and another well-known anti-violence father figure, Mohandas Gandhi who was stationed in South Africa at the time and just beginning his life-long journey of being an activist. The letter, along with Tolstoy's unarguable views and preaching, began Mohandas Gandhi's views about non-violent resistance which was, incidently, a main part of Tolstoy's own view of C

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Œ::For the former M/S Anna Karenina, see M/S Regina Baltica Anna Karenina (Анна Каренина) is a novel by Leo Tolstoy that was first published in 1877. The novel initially appeared serially in the periodical Ruskii Vestnik ("Russian Messenger"), but Tolstoy clashed with its editor Mikhail Katkov over issues that arose in the final installment. Consequently, the ...

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Schools Anarcho-capitalism Anarcho-communism Anarcho-primitivism Anarcho-syndicalism Christian anarchism Eco-anarchism Individualist anarchism Mutualism Anarchism in culture Anarchism and religion Anarchism and society Anarchism and the arts Anarcho-punk Anarchist theory Anarchism and capitalism Anarchism and Marxism Anarchist economics Anarchist law Anarchist symbolism Anarchism without adjectives P ...

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A Confession is a short work on questions of religion by Leo Tolstoy. It was first distributed in Russia in 1882. Consisting of autobiographical notes on the development of the author's belief, A Confession shows the process of searching for answers to the profound questions: "What will come of my life?" and "What is the meaning of life?", without answers to which life to him is impossible. Tolstoy shows different attempts to find answers on the examples of science, philosophy, eastern wisdom and the opinio ...

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What Is Art? (1897) is a nonfictional essay by Leo Tolstoy in which he argues against numerous aesthetic theories which define art in terms of the good, truth, and especially beauty. In Tolstoy's opinion, art at the time was corrupt and decadent, and artists had been misled. What is Art? develops the aesthetical theories that bloomed at the end of the eighteenth century and during the nineteenth century, thus criticizing the realistic position (held since Plato that regarded imitative position as the highest value ...

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War and Peace (Война и мир [Voyna i mir], in original orthography Война и миръ) is an epic Russian novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869, which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. It is usually described as one of Tolstoy's two major masterpieces (the other being Anna Karenina) as well as one of the world's greatest novels. The Russian words for "peace" (pre-1918: миръ) and "world" (pre-1918: міръ) are homonym ...

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War and Peace was a made for television dramatization of the Leo Tolstoy novel of the same name. The classic BBC dramatisation of Tolstoy's epic story of love and loss set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars. Oscar-winning actor Anthony Hopkins heads the cast as the soul-searching Pierre Bezuhov (a role for which he won the 1972 Best Actor BAFTA); Morag Hood is the impulsive and beautiful Natasha Rostova; Alan Dobie is the dour but heroic Andrei Bolkonsky; and David Swift is Napoleon, whose decision to invade Russia in 1812 has far-rea ...

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Confession of sins is an integral part of the Christian faith and practice. The meaning is essentially the same as the criminal one – to admit one's own guilt. Confession of one's sins, or at least of one's sinfulness, is seen by most churches as a pre-requisite for becoming a Christian. Confession - Confession of faith. Confession is also used by many churches in the sense of a statement of faith. The word is used in many Bible translations to mean admit one's faith publicly (e.g. Ep ...

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Aaron David Gordon (1856 in Troianov or Podolia Russia-1922 on Kibbutz Deganiah) was a Zionist ideologue and the spiritual force behind practical Zionism. He founded the "Hapoel Hatzair" ("Young Worker") movement that set the tone for the Zionist movement for many years to come. Influenced by Tolstoy and others, it is said that in effect he made a religion of labor. However, he himself wrote in 1920, "Surely i ...

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War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир; Vojna i mir) was a Soviet-produced film version of the novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. It was directed by Sergei Bondarchuk. The film was the first to have a budget of over $100,000,000. It was so expensive that it required the Soviet government to partially fund the film. With a running time of 511 minutes, it ...

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Nonviolence (or non-violence) is a set of assumptions about morality, power and conflict that leads its proponents to reject the use of violence in efforts to attain social or political goals. While often used as a synonym for pacifism, since the mid 20th century the term nonviolence has come to embody a diversity of techniques for waging social conflict without the use of violence, as well as the underlying political and philos ...

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Prince (Kniaz) Alexander Borisovich Kurakin, sometimes spelled Kourakine (Russian: Александр Борисович Куракин) (January 18, 1752 - June 24, 1818) was a Russian statesman and diplomat, a member of the State Council (since 1810), ranked Actual Privy Counsellor 1st Class (see Table of Ranks). In Tolstoy's War and Peace, his name is rendered as Kuragin. Born in Moscow to a long line of Russian diplomats, he was the great grandson of the famous Boris Kurakin. He moved into St. Pe ...

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The Crimean War lasted from 28 March 1854 until 1856 and was fought between Imperial Russia and an alliance of the United Kingdom, France, the Ottoman Empire (to some extent), and Piedmont-Sardinia. The majority of the conflict took place on the Crimean peninsula in the Black Sea. Crimean War - The War. Crimean War - Beginning of the war. A new conflict was ostensibly provoked during the 1850s by an obscure religious dispute. Under treaties negotiated during the eighteent ...

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A fluent speaker and translator of Russian, he was called as an expert witness to the trial of John Demjanjuk in Israel, which was concluded in April 1988. In a letter to the Daily Telegraph (21st April 1988), Tolstoy said the trial and the court's procedures struck "at the most vital principles of natural justice". He condemned the specially bussed-in audiences, who were repeatedly permitted by Judge Levin to boo and hiss at appropriate moments. He called Levin's conduct "an appalling travesty of every principle of equity", and said ...

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A committed monarchist, Tolstoy is Chancellor of the International Monarchist League. He was also Chairman of the London-based Russian Monarchist League, and chaired their annual dinner on March 6, 1986, when the Guest-of-Honour was the MP, John Biggs-Davison. He was also in the chair for their Summer Dinner on 4th June 1987, at the United Oxford & Cambridge Club in Pall Mall, when Gregory Lauder-Frost was the guest speaker. Lauder-Frost and Tolstoy were founding committee members (January 1989) of the now established War and Peace Ball, held annually in L ...

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Educated at Wellington College, and Trinity College, Dublin, Tolstoy wrote a number of books about Celtic mythology, and about World War II. Among them there were Victims Of Yalta and The Minister and the Massacres which criticised the British handling of post-war refugees from eastern Europe, the Operation Keelhaul. He has recently published the first volume of a biography of his stepfather, the novelist Patrick O'Brian, and has pla ...

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Tolstoy was one of the giants of 19th century Russian literature. His most famous works include the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, and many shorter works, including the novellas The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Hadji Murad. His contemporaries paid him lofty tributes: Dostoevsky thought him the greatest of all living novelists while Gustave Flaubert gushed: "What an artist and what a psychologist!". Anton Chekhov, who often visited Tolstoy at his country estate, wrote: "When literature possesses a Tolstoy, it ...

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