num_pages: 896
description: Leo Tolstoy embodies the most extraordinary contradictions. He was a wealthy aristocrat who preached the virtues of poverty and the peasant life, a misogynist who wrote Anna Karenina, and a supreme writer who declared, "Literature is rubbish." From Tolstoy's famously bad marriage to his enormously successful career, Troyat presents a brilliant portrait that reads like an epic novel written by Tolstoy himself.
language: English
title: Tolstoy
titlecomplete: Tolstoy
characters: Leo Tolstoy
genres: Classics, History, Philosophy, Russia, Biography Memoir, Russian Literature, Biography, Literature, Nonfiction, Politics
ratings_count: 715
places: Russian Federation
publisher: Grove Press