The commune can trace its history back more than a hundred years. In 1894, when Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was at the height of his fame, a group of acolytes known as the Croydon Brotherhood ...

We’ve all huffed and puffed our way through War and Peace – our personal Everests. We’ve stayed up nights reading Anna Karenina and cried over The Death of Ivan Ilyich. Leo Tolstoy is a name ...

History: Leo Tolstoy Andrei Zorin Reaktion Books, €11.99 Portrait of the author Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy on his 80th birthday Books 3 Trying to read Leo Tolstoy's oeuvre with sufficient ...