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Tolstoy

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Tol⋅stoy

  [tohl-stoi, tol-; Russ. tuhl-stoi]
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–noun
Leo or Lev Ni⋅ko⋅la⋅e⋅vich  [lev nik-uh-lahy-uh-vich; Russ. lyef nyi-kuh-lah-yi-vyich] , Count, 1828–1910, Russian novelist and social critic.
Also, Tolstoi.

Related forms:
Tol⋅stoy⋅an, Tol⋅stoi⋅an, adjective, noun
Tol⋅stoy⋅ism, noun
Tol⋅stoy⋅ist, noun
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Tol·stoy or Tol·stoi   (tōl'stoi, tŏl'-, təl-stoi')   
Russian writer whose great novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877) offer extraordinary detail and profound psychological insights. His later theories of ethics and morality recommended nonparticipation in and passive resistance to evil.
Tol·stoy'an, Tol·stoi'an adj. & n.
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