Leo Tolstoy

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Leo Tolstoy
Tolstoy on 23 May 1908 at Yasnaya Polyana, Lithograph print by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
Native name	Лев Николаевич Толстой
Born	(1828-09-09)9 September 1828 Yasnaya Polyana, Krapivensky Uyezd, Tula Governorate, Ufumu wa Russia
Died	20 November 1910(1910-11-20) (vyaka 82) Astapovo, Ranenburgsky Uyezd, Ryazan Governorate, Ufumu wa Russia
Resting place	Yasnaya Polyana, Tula
Occupation	Mulembi wa mabuku, mulembi wa nkhani zifupi, mulembi wa maseŵero, mulembi wa nkhani
Language	Chiyowoyero cha ku Russia
Period	1847–1910
Literary movement	Realism
Notable works	War and Peace Anna Karenina The Death of Ivan Ilyich The Kingdom of God Is Within You Resurrection
Spouse	Sophia Behrs ​ (m. 1862)​
Children	13
Relatives	Nikolay Tolstoy (father) Mariya Tolstaya (mother)
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Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian; 9 September 1828 ️ 20 November 1910), uyo kanandi wakuchemeka mu Chingelezi kuti Leo Tolstoy, wakaŵa mulembi wa ku Russia uyo wakuwoneka kuti ni yumoza wa ŵalembi ŵakumanyikwa chomene. Wakaŵa na mwaŵi wa kupokera chawanangwa cha Nobel mu mabuku kufuma mu 1902 m'paka 1906, kweniso cha Nobel Peace Prize mu 1901, 1902, na 1909.

Iyo wakababika mu mbumba yakuzirwa ya ku Russia mu 1828. Mu mabuku ghake ghanyake agho wakalemba ni Nkhondo na Mtende (1869) na Anna Karenina (1878). Wakamba kumanyikwa mu mabuku ghake apo wakaŵa na vyaka vya m'ma 20 na buku lake la Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth (1852-1856), na Sevastopol Sketches (1855), ilo likulongosora ivyo vikachitika mu Nkhondo ya ku Crimea. Mu mabuku ghake muli nkhani zichoko waka nga ni "After the Ball" (1911), na mabuku ghachoko waka nga ni The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886), Family Happiness (1859) na Hadji Murad (1912). Kweniso wakalembanga maseŵero gha maseŵero na nkhani za vinjeru vya ŵanthu.

Mu ma 1870, Tolstoy wakasangana na suzgo likuru la nkharo, ndipo pamanyuma pake wakawona kuti vinthu vikwenda makora mwauzimu. Cifukwa cakuti wakapulikiskanga nadi visambizgo vya Yesu, comenecomene ivyo wakayowoya mu Upharazgi wa pa Phiri, wakazgoka Mkhristu wakutemwa nkhondo. Fundo zake zakukhwaskana na kusankhana mitundu, izo wakalemba mu buku lakuti The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1894), zikakhwaska chomene ŵanthu ŵa mu vyaka vya m'ma 1900 nga ni Mahatma Gandhi na Martin Luther King, Jr. Wakalutilira kukhozgera fundo za Henry George, izo wakazisangamo mu buku lake la Resurrection (1899).