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Leo Tolstoy

Died in 1910

Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was born at Yasnaya Polyana, near Tula. Having entered Kazan University in 1844, he abandoned his studies and spent a few years amid gambling and debts, before joining the army in 1851: he served in the Caucasus, then in the Crimea during the war. A moral crisis later led him to religious positions foreign to Orthodoxy, to the doctrine of non-resistance to evil by violence, to which Gandhi laid claim, and to the rejection of his own fortune. Excommunicated in 1901, he secretly left his estate in 1910 and died at Astapovo station.

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