Tolstoy
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- proper noun
- /toʊlˈstɔɪ/
- But just like Tolstoy said, all happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
- Leo Tolstoy
- Sonya Tolstoy
- Tolstoy's War and Peace
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Watch on YouTubeI read my way through Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, I Chekhov.
- I read my way through Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, I Chekhov.
- Joking around creates works of art, according to Tolstoy.
- It was this story of the man hanging in the well that prompted Tolstoy's conversion.
- And some of these other thinkers as well, like like Chekhov and and Ibsen and and Tolstoy.
- And, and so I just assumed that I would end up going to jail and that that I'd studied Gandhi and Tolstoy and nonviolent resistance.
- And we did, it wasn't just, oh, you'll do Tolstoy and that's it.
- He had spent his whole life perfecting Tolstoy.
- And what I mean by weakest link is so go back to Tolstoy.
- And then we have the Christian Middle Ages, which for the most part, the aesthetics of Tolstoy's time is ignoring.
Examples
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So as Leo Tolstoy said, everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing themselves.
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In War and Peace, Tolstoy remarks that military science assumes... ...that the bigger the army, the stronger it is.
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Next, find out why you should read the Tolstoy classic War and Peace.
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So I have to say that Tolstoy was one of the big influences on me.
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I mentioned the names of Tolstoy, Henry James, and perhaps the greatest of all, Jane Austen.
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War and Peace by Tolstoy and Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.
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And in Leo Tolstoy's famous novel The Death of Ivan Ilitch, he asked this question.
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Tolstoy may have educated his peasants but I've educated you.
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And the one thing I really want you to take from this chart is if I can steal a line from Tolstoy's remark about unhappy families.
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Leo Tolstoy is celebrated for his epic novels, including 'War and Peace'.
Synonyms
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A Russian writer of long novels about people and right and wrong
A Russian writer from the 1800s famous for the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina
Surface Forms
Etymology
Tolstoy comes from a Russian word tolstoy that means 'fat' or 'thick', so the name began as a nickname for an ancestor who was large.