Leo Tolstoy

"Little Girls Wiser Than Old Men" by Leo Tolstoy is a short story about two young girls, Akoulya and Malasha, who have a small conflict while playing in the mud. Their innocent quarrel escalates into...

The main themes in Tolstoy's "Where Love is There is God" include spiritual growth and Christian service. Martin undergoes a transformation through reading the Gospels and acting upon them, learning...

The theme of "The Two Pilgrims" is that true devotion to God is demonstrated through love and acts of kindness toward others. Tolstoy illustrates this through Elisha, who helps a poor family instead...

Tolstoy is saying that rationalized knowledge alone, knowledge limited to what this world can show us, is insufficient for ultimate understanding. We need to live in the context of the infinite, or...

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Tolstoy's philosophy of leadership, as depicted in his works, emphasizes moral integrity and selflessness over ambition and power. In War and Peace, leaders like Czar Alexander I and Marshal Kutuzov...

Leo Tolstoy (1818-1910) was a renowned Russian writer, famous for War and Peace and Anna Karenina. An aristocrat, he was critical of his class and advocated for better conditions for Russian...

Tolstoy's stories reflect the moral and social dilemmas of 19th-century Russia, highlighting issues of greed, murder, lust, vanity, and love. His works, such as War and Peace and "The Death of Ivan...