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“My life came to a stand­still,” wrote Leo Tol­stoy in his 1882 con­ver­sion mem­oir A Con­fes­sion, “I could not breathe, eat, drink, and sleep, and I could not help doing these things.” So Tolstoy’s described his “arrest of life,” a peri­od of severe depres­sion that led to a very deep, per­son­al brand of faith in his late mid­dle age.

"Explore the life, works, and enduring legacy of Leo Tolstoy, the influential Russian writer whose novels, such as War and Peace and Anna.

"Explore the life, works, and enduring legacy of Leo Tolstoy, the influential Russian writer whose novels, such as War and Peace and Anna.

Leo Tolstoy was a remarkable novelist in part because he believed in the novel as a tool for social reform, something that would enable us.

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A film biography of Leo Tolstoy featuring his daughter, Alexandra.

The tow­er­ing Russ­ian nov­el­ist renounced world­ly desires and came to iden­ti­fy with the poor, the for­mer serfs of his aris­to­crat­ic class. Tolstoy’s rad­i­cal reli­gious anar­chism in his final years spread his fame far among the peas­antry just as his lit­er­ary achieve­ments had brought him world­wide renown among the read­ing pub­lic.

So famous was Tol­stoy, William Nick­ell tells us, that Russ­ian crit­ic Vasi­ly Rozanov wrote that “to be a Russ­ian and not have [seen] Tol­stoy was like being Swiss and not hav­ing se