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Tuesday, April 30th, 2024
the Fifth Week after Easter
the Fifth Week after Easter
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Tolstoi, Count Leo
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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Novelist, social reformer, and religious mystic, born in Tula, of a noble family; served for a time in the army, soon retired from it, and travelled; married, and settled on his estate near Moscow in 1862; his two great works are "War and Peace" (1865-68) and "Anna Karenina" (1875-78); has written many works since, all more or less in a religious vein, and in the keenest, deepest sympathy with the soul-oppression of the world, finding the secret of Christianity to lie in the precept of Christ, "Resist not evil," and exemplifying that as the principle of his own life; b . 1828.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Tolstoi, Count Leo'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/t/tolstoi-count-leo.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Tolstoi, Count Leo'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/t/tolstoi-count-leo.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
