Tolstoy’s Jesus versus Dostoevsky’s Christ: A Tale of Two Christologies
Journal: RIT Scholar Works (Rochester Institute of Technology)
Year: 2014

Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky never met in their lifetimes, though they were in the same room together once. They were both attending one of Vladimir Soloviev’s “Lectures on Godmanhood” in March 1878. Nikolai Strakhov—critic, philosopher, editor and close confidant of Dostoevsky in the 1860s—was with Tolstoy and supposedly didn’t bring him to Dostoevsky because Tolstoy had requested not to be introduced to anyone. Both writers later regretted the missed opportunity, though I think it was bet