#Leo Tolstoy

Author: Scotty Hendricks / Source: Big Think Russia’s history is fascinating and filled with colorful characters. Some of the most influential of them have been extremely controversial. Here are ten of the most interesting, both good and bad. Russia is a fascinating place. Its history is

Author: Matt Davis / Source: Big Think Anarchists aren’t typically portrayed as particularly religious; instead, we think of them as violent anti-authoritarians. While many modern anarchists rankle at today’s religious organizations, the elements of these faiths often express a lot of ideas

Author: Maria Popova / Source: Brain Pickings “Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills,” Tolstoy wrote at the end of his life in his forgotten correspondence with Gandhi about human nature and why we hurt each other, as the global tensions that would soon erupt into World War I were

Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama Leo Tolstoy, the Russian author of War and Peace, Anna Karenina, and other classics, had thirteen children. Six of those children had their own children, and they eventually produced nearly 400 direct Tolstoy descendants, almost 300 of them living today.