lev nikolaevich, count
stɔɪ, ˈtɒl-; Also, Tol·stoi.
Related forms
Tol·stoy·an, Tol·stoi·an, adjective, noun
Tol·stoy·ism, noun
Tol·stoy·ist, noun
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| 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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