So, meine Lieben, fast and easy here you go: 12 interesting facts about Leo Tolstoy!

1. For Virginia Woolf, Leo Tolstoy was the greatest author of all time!

2. The Tolstoys were a Russian well-known old nobility family

3. He fought the Crimean War and wrote about it later on his book Sevastopol Sketches

4. He was a pacifist, a rebel who believed in the nonviolent resistance. He was against the government (radical anarchist) after he witnessed a public execution in Paris

5. Mahatma Gandhi wrote him a letter asking for advice

6. His book The Kingdom of God is within you not only had a deep influence on Gandhi but also on Martin Luther King, Jr.

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