Leo Tolstoy

Author: waytorussia (on 04 Apr 2015)

Reading a book by Leo Tolstoy will give you a good understanding of why Russians are so keen on global projects. Anna Karenina is a kind of combinatorial exercise where all possible human relations are shown and thoroughly analysed, and it will be a very interesting and relevant read even today.

Leo Tolstoy at Work

Tolstoy did not just give the world Anna Karenina and The War and Peace. He performed a complex and rich study of human psyche and relations, politics and society in a beautifully crafted literary form. The world knows only a few epic enterprises like this in literature and Tolstoy is perhaps the best known of the ones who’s actually tried and managed to talk to the universe about itself.
  

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