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Leo Tolstoy, born Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy in 1828, was a Russian writer regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors of all time. He is best known for the novels War and Peace, Anna Karenina, and Resurrection.
Leo Tolstoy died on the 20th of November 1910 at the age of 82 of pneumonia, at Astapovo railway station, after a day's train journey south. According to some sources he spent his last hours preaching love, non-violence, and Georgism to fellow passengers.
Leo Tolstoy was excommunicated from the Russian Orthodox Church in 1901 after developing a radical anarcho-pacifist Christian philosophy. He saw the Church's doctrine as a perversion of Christ's teachings and built his beliefs on a literal reading of the Sermon on the Mount.
Leo Tolstoy's doctrine of nonresistance to evil, set out in The Kingdom of God Is Within You and A Letter to a Hindu, helped convince Gandhi of nonviolent resistance. Their correspondence ran from October 1909 until Tolstoy's death in November 1910, and led Gandhi to name his second South African ashram the Tolstoy Colony.
No. Leo Tolstoy received nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906 and for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902, and 1909, but was never awarded a Nobel Prize. This remains a major Nobel Prize controversy.
Leo Tolstoy became a vegetarian for ethical and spiritual reasons, adopting a strict meatless diet from 1890. In his 1893 essay The First Step he described witnessing cruelty at a slaughterhouse in Tula and called the eating of meat simply immoral because it involves killing.