Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), Russian author and philosopher, 1926. Artist: Unknown


Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), Russian author and philosopher, 1926. As a fiction writer, Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists, particularly noted for his masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina. As a moral philosopher Tolstoy was notable for his ideas on non-violent resistance through works such as The Kingdom of God is Within You, which in turn influenced such twentieth-century figures as Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. From An Outline of Christianity, The Story of Our Civilisation, volume 4: Christianity and Modern Thought, edited by RG Parsons and AS Peake, published by the Waverley Book Club (London, 1926).


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