Tolstoy's Study in Moscow
by Sarah Loft
Title
Tolstoy's Study in Moscow
Artist
Sarah Loft
Medium
Photograph - Digitally Painted Photograph
Description
Per Wikipedia: Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, 9 September 1828- 20 November 1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time.
Born to an aristocratic Russian family in 1828, he is best known for the novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877), often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction. He first achieved literary acclaim in his twenties with his semi-autobiographical trilogy, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth (1852- 1856), and Sevastopol Sketches (1855), based upon his experiences in the Crimean War. Tolstoy's fiction includes dozens of short stories and several novellas such as The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Family Happiness, and Hadji Murad. He also wrote plays and numerous philosophical essays.
In the 1870s Tolstoy experienced a profound moral crisis, followed by what he regarded as an equally profound spiritual awakening, as outlined in his non-fiction work A Confession. His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him to become a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist. Tolstoy's ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal 20th-century figures as Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and James Bevel. Tolstoy also became a dedicated advocate of Georgism, the economic philosophy of Henry George, which he incorporated into his writing, particularly Resurrection.
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Featured in the Pleasing the Eye group, August 2016.
Featured in The World We See group, August 2016.
Featured in the No Place Like Home group, June 2019.
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August 22nd, 2016
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Comments (9)
Denise Harty
Congratulations on the feature of your wonderful image in the No Place Like Home group! L/F
Nancy Kane Chapman
My son is a Russian scholar.....and I so appreciate this look into Tolstoy's study. What a beautiful and peaceful place to write! F/L++
William Tasker
Great information in the description and it was really cool to see where the man wrote. Thank you, Sarah! L/F