Leo Tolstoy Born: Russia's Greatest Novelist Arrives
Leo Tolstoy produced War and Peace and Anna Karenina, two novels so vast in scope and psychological depth that they permanently redefined what fiction could achieve. His later turn to radical Christian pacifism and social criticism influenced Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., extending his impact far beyond literature into the movements that reshaped the modern world.
August 28, 1828
198 years ago
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