In 1828, somewhere in the countryside north of Moscow,

Leo Tolstoy was born into the Russian nobility. Count

Tolstoy, although acquainted with the finer things that life

had to offer, new that the Romantic view of the world was

false early in his life. His mother left this world when he was

two, and his father undoubtedly told horrific stories of the

chaotic Napoleonic Wars. This, coupled with the

consecutive deaths of not only his father, but his favorite

aunts and grandmother, all before his twenty-first birthday,

a three year stint in the military during the Crimean war, and

the works of masters such as Rousseau, Voltaire, Hegel,

Darwin, Dickens, Gogol, and the New Testament

contributed to the literary genius which is Tolstoy.



As a realist, Tolstoy was committed to truthfully

representing reality in literature. As a founder of a

socio-religious movement, aptly named Tolstoyism, his goal

was to enlighten the masses. The Death of Ivan Ilyich is a

prime example......

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Title: I Am Tolstoy, But Not A Tolstoyian
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