Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828–1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. He received nominations for ...

Despite its universal recognition as one of the greatest novels ever written, Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace has become popular shorthand for works of massive length. And while there is no correlation ...

Sophia Tolstoy has returned to the public eye, thanks in no small part to Helen Mirren, who recently portrayed her onscreen. In the tumultuous final months of her husband’s life, Sophia and Leo ...

Five years ago, after extensive research, Ernest J. Simmons began his two-volume life and appraisal of Russia’s great writer, Leo Tolstoy. In the first half of this biography, chapters of which were ...

For mountain climbers, one imagines that Mt. Everest looms as the ultimate climb to validate one’s ability. For runners, it would be the Boston Marathon, for triathletes the Iron Man? Which meant I ...

“It was perhaps inevitable that a man who did nothing by half-measures would experience something beyond the typical mid-life crisis,” Rosamund Bartlett writes in her 2010 biography of Leo Tolstoy. At ...