Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) was a Russian novelist and thinker who joined panoramic social worlds to an exacting study of conscience, family and moral choice. War and Peace places private hopes inside the Napoleonic wars, refusing to reduce history to the plans of great commanders. Anna Karenin follows love, judgment and isolation alongside Levin's search for a truthful way of living; the parallel stories make intimate decisions inseparable from social structure. Resurrection turns guilt into a confrontation with courts, prisons and inherited privilege. Tolstoy's long novels move between ballrooms, households and battlefields without losing the pressure of a single decision. War and Peace reveals the full historical scale, while Anna Karenin offers the most concentrated meeting of desire, family life and public judgment.