Tolstoy, Leo

She saw herself as part of a larger tradition that includes Honore de Balzac, Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust, and Thomas Mann.

“For me it was the turn of the 20th century—Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Anatoly Mariengof,” he explains of his inspiration.

At my request the wording of this label, in which the evils of vodka were set forth, was done by the late Count Leo Tolstoy.

Leo Tolstoy might well have lived in a tub or carried a lantern by day, like the most sensational and theatrical of the ancients.

When it comes to a question of righteous resistance, Leo Tolstoy is unbearable.

He speaks as highly of this relentless persecutor as of Leo Tolstoy!

Many people regard the writings of Count Leo Tolstoy as the epitome of the doctrine of non-resistance.