Russian author Leo Tolstoy continues to spark debate through a memorable quote of the day from his novel War and Peace, where ...

Leo Tolstoy, born Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy in 1828 at Yasnaya Polyana in the Russian Empire, became one of the greatest ...

“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does,” wrote Leo Tolstoy. The Russian ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Leo and Sophia Tolstoy were married 48 years. Russian writer and philosopher Leo Tolstoy created many literary masterpieces during ...

Love and grief have always been closely related in human life. Those who love deeply will often feel more deeply when faced ...

Leo Tolstoy’s quote highlights the importance of kindness, empathy, and social responsibility. The timeless message ...

Writers’ ideas are better suited for books than for movies. This was my conclusion after seeing The Last Station, Michael Hoffman’s smart, well-acted, heavily researched tale of the last days of Leo ...

For mountain climbers, one imagines that Mt. Everest looms as the ultimate climb to validate one’s ability. For runners, it would be the Boston Marathon, for triathletes the Iron Man? Which meant I ...

“It was perhaps inevitable that a man who did nothing by half-measures would experience something beyond the typical mid-life crisis,” Rosamund Bartlett writes in her 2010 biography of Leo Tolstoy. At ...

Tolstoy’s words remind us that love is the essence of life and true understanding. Beyond wealth or success, meaning is found ...

Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Anton Vaino chaired the third meeting of the organising committee for preparing and holding celebrations marking Leo Tolstoy’s 200th birth ...