Tolstoy
Tolstoy refers to Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910), the Russian novelist whose works *War and Peace* and *Anna Karenina* are considered among the greatest in world literature.
His name evokes epic scope, psychological depth, and moral seriousness: It's a Tolstoy-length novel.
Late in life he became known for radical Christian pacifism and simple living, influencing Gandhi and others.
Opposing states of nations
- ResurrectionRising from death
- realismAccepting things as they are
- epicImpressively grand in scope
- proseUnversified language
Anna Karenina · narrative · serialized · omniscient · psychological · characters · Natasha · Pierre
19th-century Russian author
- ChekhovRussian short-story master
- PushkinEugene Onegin author
- TurgenevRussian realist writer
- MoscowRussia's capital city
Petersburg · serf · aristocracy · samovar · troika · dacha · intelligentsia · nihilist
Principled rejection of force
- pacifismAntiwar moral stance
- anarchismPhilosophy rejecting state authority
- GandhiIndian independence leader
- moralConcerning right conduct
ethics · simplicity · asceticism · vegetarianism · celibacy · renunciation · excommunication · peasant
State of eventual death
- deathCessation of life
- meaningWhat something signifies
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- faithTrust without proof
love · marriage · family · society · hypocrisy · redemption · conversion · confession
War and Peace
Opposing states of nations
- ResurrectionRising from death
- realismAccepting things as they are
- epicImpressively grand in scope
Anna Karenina · prose · narrative · serialized · omniscient · psychological · characters · Natasha · Pierre · Levin
Dostoevsky
19th-century Russian author
Moscow · Petersburg · serf · aristocracy · samovar · troika · dacha · intelligentsia · nihilist · landed gentry
nonviolence
Principled rejection of force
- pacifismAntiwar moral stance
- anarchismPhilosophy rejecting state authority
- GandhiIndian independence leader
moral · ethics · simplicity · asceticism · vegetarianism · celibacy · renunciation · excommunication · peasant · labor
mortality
State of eventual death
faith · love · marriage · family · society · hypocrisy · redemption · conversion · confession · crisis
Napoleon
French emperor, military genius
- 1812Year of two wars
- battlefieldCombat engagement area
- campaignOrganized effort toward goal
cavalry · artillery · soldiers · officers · generals · retreat · invasion · military · strategy · frontline
- Famous AuthorsShakespeare, Dickens, Austen, Hemingway, Twain
- Classic AuthorsShakespeare, Dante, Homer, Chaucer, Milton
- Russian LiteratureDostoevsky, Chekhov, Pushkin, Nabokov, Turgenev
- European AuthorsShakespeare, Dickens, Austen, Jane Austen, Dante
- european novelistsDostoevsky, Dickens, Victor Hugo, Kafka, Jane Austen
- golden age authorsDickens, Twain, Poe, Austen, Dostoevsky
TolstoyMarquis de Sade
Writer whose name became perversion
Rasputin · Aleister Crowley · Casanova · Lord Byron · Nero