It’s not every day that you bump into a Tolstoy in India. At this year’s Jaipur Literature Festival, as I wait to check into the hotel, a stranger greets me with a warm smile. “Hi, I am Daniil Tolstoy ...

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy died in 1910; later, his widow Sofya said that she had lived with him for 48 years, “but I never really learned what kind of man he was”. In this reissue of his biography of ...

History: Leo Tolstoy Andrei Zorin Reaktion Books, €11.99 Portrait of the author Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy on his 80th birthday Books 3 Trying to read Leo Tolstoy's oeuvre with sufficient nuance ...

It is fortunate that Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy's country house and estate at Yasnaya Polyana near Tula, Russia, have been preserved, appearing little changed nearly a century after his death.

The Russian literary artist, Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy [1828–1910], better known in the world over as Leo Tolstoy, is generally regarded as one of the most potent creative forces of world literature.

While standing behind the counter of a bakery, serving egg puffs and coffee, Shukoor P M is thinking of Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy — popularly known as Leo Tolstoy — who lived decades ago in the ...