A GENIUS IS BORN
ARISTOCRATIC ANCESTRY
The aristocracy is all powerful in Russia in the 1800s
PARENTS
DEATH OF LEO’S MOTHER
Aunt Toinette
DEATH OF LEO’S FATHER
THE MAKING OF THE MAN
EDUCATION
Tolstoy constantly compiles behavioural rules
OFF TO WAR
The Caucasus War
EARLY LITERARY RECOGNITION
Tolstoy is delighted with the positive reply he gets back from the editor, NA Nekrasov
IN THE FRONTLINE
The Crimean War
HOME FROM THE WAR
Heated dispute sparked by a discussion about Turgenev’s illegitimate daughter
FIRST TRIP TO EUROPE
Tolstoy has a narrow escape from a bear
ANOTHER BROTHER DIES
Nicholas dies in the arms of his younger brother, Leo Tolstoy
MARRIED LIFE
PHYSICALITY
WOMEN
Tolstoy lectures Valerya -- even on bonnets!
A PROPOSAL & A MARRIAGE
Tolstoy writes a letter containing a marriage proposal
MARRIED LIFE & CHILDREN
Sophia’s father, a doctor, tries to a inject some sense into the argument in a letter
HIS OTHER FAMILY: THE PEASANTS
Emancipation manifesto is issued in 1861
THE LITERATURE
THE LITERARY LANDSCAPE
Nekrasov’s funeral illustrates that educated Russians took their literature seriously
WRITING AT WAR
WAR AND PEACE
ANNA KARENINA
THE BODY OF WORK
Childhood
Boyhood
Youth
The Raid
The Wood-Felling
Sevastopol Sketches
The Snowstorm
Lucerne
A Landlord’s Morning
Three Deaths
Family Happiness
Polikushka
The Cossacks
War and Peace
Anna Karenina
The Infected Family
The Fruits of Enlightenment
The Power of Darkness
Strider
The Death of Ivan Ilich
Master and Man
The Kreutzer Sonata
Resurrection
Hadji Murad
LITERARY INFLUENCES
THE PHILOSOPHICAL YEARS
GOD
Starting a religion
TOLSTOYISM
Tolstoy meets Vladimir Chertkov
TEMPTATIONS OF THE FLESH
He preaches abstinence from sex unless it is to have children
THE MARRIAGE SUFFERS
THE ESSAYS
Criticism of Dogmatic Theology
Confession
The Four Gospels Unified and Translated
What Then Must We Do?
Nicholas Stick
Letter to a Revolutionary
Shame!
The Kingdom of God is Within You
What Is Art?
THE FINAL YEARS
UNPOPULAR WITH GOVERNMENT
Tolstoy asks the new Tsar to pardon his father’s murderers
EXCOMMUNICATION BY THE CHURCH
Posts a notice on the door of every church
CLASHES OVER HIS INHERITANCE
He promises his current diary to Sophia and writes a letter to her for her to open only after her death
DEATH
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