Tol·stoy or Tol·stoi (t l stoi, t l-, t l-stoi), Count Leo or Lev Nikolayevich 1828-1910. Russian writer whose great novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877) offer extraordinary detail and profound psychological insights. His later theories of ethics and morality recommended nonparticipation in and passive resistance to evil. Tol·stoy an, Tol·stoian adj. & n. |
Tolstoy [ˈtɒlstɔɪ (Russian) talˈstɔj]
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(Biographies / Tolstoy, Leo, Count (1828-1910) M, Russian, WRITING: novelist, WRITING: short-story writer, PHILOSOPHY: philosopher) Leo, Russian name Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy. 1828-1910, Russian novelist, short-story writer, and philosopher; author of the two monumental novels War and Peace (1865-69) and Anna Karenina (1875-77). Following a spiritual crisis in 1879, he adopted a form of Christianity based on a doctrine of nonresistance to evil
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| Noun | 1. |  Tolstoy - Russian author remembered for two great novels (1828-1910) |
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