Central planning fails, always and everywhere. Leo Tolstoy wasn’t the first to see this, but he provided readers with one of the best articulations of the previous truth in War and Peace. In it, ...

Leo Tolstoy’s "War and Peace" is compulsory reading for all Russian school children. It is usually read around tenth grade or at age 15. It is a masterpiece that Stalin used as propaganda during ...

Leo Tolstoy, a literary genius, redefined Russian literature with masterpieces like War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Through vivid characters and profound themes of love, war, morality, and ...

Tuckton House was occupied by Russian emigres from 1900 - 1908 Author, Tom Hepworth Role, BBC South Today Reporting from Tuckton Author, Charlotte Andrews Role, BBC South ...

Tolstoy, whose novels included War and Peace and Anna Karenina, was seen as promoting dangerous ideas at the time. His works were banned in Russia because he aimed to improve the lives of workers ...

A new peace prize backed by Russian President Vladimir Putin bearing Leo Tolstoy's name has divided the writer's descendants, bringing to mind the unhappy families of his novel "Anna Karenina".

TOLSTOY As I KNEW HIM (439 pp.)—Tatyana A. Kuzminskaya—Macmillan ($5). “The powerful means for achieving true happiness,” noted candid young Leo Tolstoy in his diary, “[is] to spread out ...

Author Leo Tolstoy had a big family with his wife, Sophia. Now, you can get an inside glimpse at what a family reunion is like for his living descendants.

Workers dismantle the Soviet-era monument symbolising the Pereiaslav Agreement signed in 1645, a pledge of allegiance by Ukranian Cossacks to the Tsar of Russia, in Kyiv on April 30, 2024, amid the ...

The Cossacks and Other Stories. By Leo Tolstoy. Penguin; 528 pages; £10.99. Leo Tolstoy has a claim to be one of Chechnya’s favourite Russians.