Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy was a novelist, social reformer, peace advocate, moral thinker and influential member of the Tolstoy family. His most famous works are "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina", which stand on the verge of realistic literature. They give a realistic picture of Russian life in that era.

As a moral philosopher who embraced the ideas of peaceful resistance to violence and crystallized it in the book "The Kingdom of the Lord Within You", a work that influenced twentieth-century celebrities such as Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King in their violent and violent policy of resistance. In his literary writings he dealt with ethical, religious and social issues. He was a thoughtful thinker. He enrolled in Kazan University in 1844, but the method of teaching did not like his abandonment to free work in 1847. He began to educate himself and proceeded to write.

In this first stage of his life, he wrote three books: Childhood (1852); Youth (1854); Youth (1857). And tired of that life joined the army and participated in some battles and wrote about his experiences those topics published in the newspapers, and written by his book Caucasus (1863).