Most Famous Person in the World: Writers and Artists
Leo Tolstoy
Living years: 1828-1910
Nationality: Russian
Masterpiece: Anna Karenina, War and Peace, The Death of Ivan Ilych, Resurrection, etc.
Most famous for his two novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy was a Christian pacifist. As a child, he struggled with his studies and ended up drifting through life. He had once volunteered to serve in the Russian army to gain meaning in his life. However, that did not last long as he quickly realized his passion for being a pacifist. His battlefield observations in Sevastopol Sketches gained him recognition as a Russian writer. He spent most of his years traveling through Europe and gaining an emotional connection with the peasants, poor, and downtrodden where he developed his philosophy of non-violence, vegetarianism, and his own take on anarchist Christianity.
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