Tolstoy
or Tol·stoi
Leo or Lev Ni·ko·la·e·vich [lev nik-uh-lahy-uh-vich; Russian lyefnyi-kuh-lah-yi-vyich], /lɛv ˌnɪk əˈlaɪ əˌvɪtʃ; Russian ˈlyɛf nyɪ kʌˈlɑ yɪ vyɪtʃ/, Count, 1828–1910, Russian novelist and social critic.
Other words from Tolstoy
- Tol·stoy·an, Tol·stoi·an, adjective, noun
- Tol·stoy·ism, noun
- Tol·stoy·ist, noun
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British Dictionary definitions for Tolstoy
/ (ˈtɒlstɔɪ, Russian talˈstɔj) /
Leo, Russian name Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy. 1828–1910, Russian novelist, short-story writer, and philosopher; author of the two monumental novels War and Peace (1865–69) and Anna Karenina (1875–77). Following a spiritual crisis in 1879, he adopted a form of Christianity based on a doctrine of nonresistance to evil
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