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A 5 page paper which examines the life and
works of Leo Tolstoy, illustrating that he was much more than an author. His influence
was felt politically and spiritually by many individuals. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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name but a few of his lasting pieces. However, aside from being an astounding author, Tolstoy was a man of thought, and a man of influence. As one author notes,
"Reading the aged Tolstoy stirs the heart. He will not yield to time, sloth, or nature" (Howe 30). Even in old age, "he battles with the world, more often with
himself, returning in his diaries, fictions, and tracts to the unanswerable questions that torment him" (Howe 30). In the following paper we examine the life of Tolstoy, illustrating that his
influence went well beyond being a powerful and lasting author. Leo Tolstoy "Tolstoy, the son of a nobleman landowner, was born on September 9, 1828, at Yasnaya Polyana,
the family estate south of Moscow. He was orphaned at the age of nine, then raised by relatives and educated by French and German tutors" (Anonymous About Leo Tolstoy Tolstoy).
When he was 16 he went to "Kazan University (now Kazan State University), first studying languages and then law; influenced by the writings of the French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau,
he became dissatisfied with formal study and in 1847 left without a degree. After a brief, futile attempt to improve the condition of the serfs on his estate, he plunged
into the dissipations of Moscows high society, which he candidly recorded in his diary with vows to reform" (Anonymous About Leo Tolstoy Tolstoy). In 1851 he joined the army,
with his brother, in the Caucasus. It was here that "he came into contact with cossacks, and later focused on them in one of his best shorter novels, The Cossacks
(1863). In it he compared the effeteness of a sophisticated young Muscovite with the vigorous and natural cossack life, portrayed with sympathy and profound poetic realism" (Anonymous About Leo Tolstoy
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