How much do today's readers know about Leo Tolstoy? The great Russian writer was a vegetarian, disdainful of copyright and money. He did not recognize religious authorities and was excommunicated. Throughout his life, Tolstoy strove to do good and stood on the side of the peasantry. These are just a few facts from the eventful biography of the writer.
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Those who knew Lev Nikolaevich well argued that from a young age he was a very gambling person. Once playing cards with his landlord neighbor, Tolstoy managed to lose part of his family estate located in Yasnaya Polyana. The winner eventually dismantled one of the buildings he won and took it to his possession. Subsequently, the writer more than once wanted to redeem this family heirloom, but for some reason he never did it.
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With his future wife, Sofya Andreevna, Leo Tolstoy met when she was not even eighteen years old. They lived together for nearly half a century. Almost all this time, the wife was a loyal and devoted friend for the writer, she helped Tolstoy a lot in his literary activity. But in recent years, the couple began to quarrel often. Differences in life beliefs and the writer's peculiar lifestyle became the reason for the quarrels.
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Leo Tolstoy was seriously interested in India, its way of life, culture, religion and philosophy. The ideas of non-resistance to evil by violence, which the writer tirelessly preached in his life, had a strong influence on Mahatma Gandhi. After many years, the Indian, who in his youth absorbed the views of the Russian writer, led the liberation movement of his people, relying on the theory of struggle, which denied any violence.
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While working on the novel War and Peace, Tolstoy repeatedly reworked the work, mercilessly redrawing the storylines and inventing new characters. The book has changed its working title several times. At first, the author was going to tell readers about three generations of his heroes, so at one time the novel had a rough title "Three Pores". Each time the rework was done, the storylines shifted more and more towards the beginning of the 19th century.
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The writer actively studied the European education system, for which he even twice traveled abroad. He made a disappointing conclusion for himself that education in his homeland was built fundamentally wrong. Tolstoy left his literary career for a while to create his own school for the children of peasants in Yasnaya Polyana. He even started publishing a journal with a pedagogical focus. Tolstoy's Peru owns textbooks: "ABC" and "Book for Reading", designed for peasant children.
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The creative heritage of Leo Tolstoy is ninety volumes of works, about ten thousand letters and over 160 thousand handwritten sheets. Throughout his adult life, the writer has been looking for the source of human happiness. And literary creativity helped him in this, to which he gave all of himself.
