Tolstoy is a figure of such an enormous scale, both in his work and in his life, that contradictions inevitably abound: the youthful soldier who later became one of the most vocal pacifists of his ...

Five years ago, after extensive research, Ernest J. Simmons began his two-volume life and appraisal of Russia’s great writer, Leo Tolstoy. In the first half of this biography, chapters of which were ...

Who is he - Leo Tolstoy? The film, based on Tolstoy's diary and his photographs, plunges into Tolstoy's special, borderless dialogue with himself and with the world, which does not end, as he believed ...