Novelist · 1828 – 1910
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Little-Known Facts
- Tolstoy and Gandhi exchanged letters; Gandhi named a settlement in South Africa 'Tolstoy Farm' in his honor.
- In his later years Tolstoy renounced his earlier fiction and his wealth in favor of a simple, ascetic life.
Myths & Misconceptions
Was Tolstoy only a novelist?
No. Alongside his fiction he became an influential moral and religious philosopher whose ideas on nonviolence had global impact.