Leo Tolstoy Childhood Years Krakow Bookstore of Leon Frommer Warsaw Bookstore of E. Wende and Sp. 1911 first Polish edition (4)207s. o. half cloth with gilt titling on spine p. bdb For. ca: 18.5x12.5 cm Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy - Russian intellectual: novelist, playwright, literary critic, thinker, educator. One of the most prominent representatives of realism in European literature. A classic of Russian and world literature. He was regarded as the highest moral authority in Russia at the turn of the 19th-20th century. His ideas of "not opposing evil with violence" had a significant influence on the views of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. In addition, the creator of the concept of moral self-improvement of the individual, as well as programmatic anti-aestheticism and postulation of moralistic art. Under the influence of his religious and moral ideas, a new socio-religious doctrine was created: Tolstoyism. |