1. By Mary Cate Culbertson
Leo Tolstoy By
Mary Cate Culbertson

2. The Early Years
Born on August 28, 1828 in Russia’s Tula Province, Yasnya Polyana.
Fourth out of five children
Family old Russian nobility
Mother
Countess Mariya Tolstaya
Father
Count Nikolai Ilyich Tolstoy
Family moved to Moscow
Father died shortly after

3. A Young Adult 1844 Tolstoy studied at Kazan University
Began drinking and gambling
1851 joined army with brother
Began writing
Married Sophia Andreyevna Behrs
Well known in Russia

4. Later Years Became very religious
The more religious and beloved he became by the country, the more his family disliked him
Tolstoy became depressed
1910 he fled his home in search for peace
Died while traveling at age 82

5. Works Most famous: War and Peace Anna Karenina The Death of Ivan Ilich
Hadji Murad
Childhood
Boyhood
Youth
Wrote over ten novels, twenty short stories, seven plays, four essays, and five non-fiction pieces
Works give a depiction of his own life

6. Inspirations Jean-Jacques Rousseau Emile, The Confessions
Many writers influenced him
Death
War
Wife
Yasnya Polyana
Faith

7. Religion Wrestled with spirituality as a child
Originally Russian Orthodox
Criticized church and was excommunicated
Founded Tolstoyism

8. Tolstoyism Met Vladimir Chertkov
Focused on Jesus’ teachings and was especially inspired by the Sermon on the Mount
Live simply
Abstain from tobacco, alcohol
Practice chastity and vegetarianism
Live by the principles of love, truth, and peace.
Rejected violence and government
Lived by 5 rules
Love enemies
Do not be angry
Do not fight evil with evil
Do not lust
Do not take oaths

9. Tolstoy and C+P
Both were incredibly significant in Russian literature history
Both lived in Russia at same time period
Never met but still influenced each other
Tolstoy’s War and Peace inspired Dostoevsky to write Brothers Karamazov
Both influenced by Russian wars, poverty, and government

10. Influenced by Tolstoy
Christian theories inspired many people for years
Ghandi
Believed violence was morally wrong
Wrote many letters to each other and became friends
Through Ghandi Tolstoy inspired many more

12. Quotes
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

13. Tolstoy Today Still influences writers, painters, and philosophers

14. Work Cited
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