Male : Writer and philosopher. Fought in Crimean War. Of noble family, but freed his serfs and refused to take advantage of his wealth. Married 1862

Nationality : Russian Place of Birth : Ysana Polyana, Tula province

Date of Birth : 1828 Date of Death : 1910 Age : 82

Education : Privately educated & University of Moscow & University of Kazan

1852-1860
Childhood & Youth (1852) (1862 Bell & Daldy) (1882 NY)
Morning of a Landed Proprietor (1852) (trans1887 NY & London)
The Invaders (1852)
The Cossacks : A Tale of the Causacus in 1852 (1852) (1878 Sampson Low - 2 vols)
First UK edition offered in 1999 for £550
Boyhood (1854) (trans1862 London)
The Cutting of the Forest (1854-5)
Sevastopol (1854-6) (1887 Harper, NY) (1889 London)
Youth (1855-7) (trans 1862 London,1882 NY)
Meeting a Moscow Acquaintance at the Front (1856)
The Snow-Storm (1856)
Memoirs of a Marker (1856) (trans 1887 NY & London)
Two Huzzars (1856) (trans 1887 NY & London)
Albert (1857) (trans 1887 NY & London)
Lucerne (1857) (trans 1887 NY & London)
Three Deaths (1859) (trans 1887 NY & London)
Domestic Happiness (1859)
Polikushka (1860)

1861-1870
Linen Measurer (History of a Horse) (1861)
Pedagogical Articles from "Yasnaya Polyana" (1862)
The School at Yasnaya Polyana (1862)
The Decembrists (1863-1878)
War and Peace (1864-9) (trans 1889 NY & London)
[Filmed in 1956 & 1967]
Fables for Children (1869-72)
Stories for Children (1869-72)
Natural Science Stories (1869-72)

1871-1880
Anna Karenina (1873-6) (trans 1884 London) (1886 Thomas Crowell, NY)
[Filmed in 1935, 1948 & 1997]
On Popular Education (1875)
My Confession (1879-82) (trans as "Christ's Christianity" 1885 London) (1887 Crowell, NY)

1881-1885
What Men Live By (1881) (trans 1897 London)
Critique of Dogmatic Theology (1881-2)
The Four Gospels Harmonised and Translated (1881-2) (trans as "The Gospel in Brief" 1896 NY & London)
My Religion (1884) (trans as "What I Believe" 1885 Elliot Stock, London) (1885 Crowell, NY)
The Death of Ivan Ilich (1884-6) (trans with other stories 1887 NY, 1889 London)
The Three Hermits (1884)
Neglect the Fire and You Cannot put it Out (1885) (trans with "The Two Pilgrims" 1897 London)
The Candle (1885)
The Two Old Men (1885)
Where Love is There is God Also (1885) (1897 Walter Scott - H Millar )
Texts for Chap-Book Illustrations (1885)
Ivan the Fool (1885) (trans with 3 other parables 1895 London)
Thoughts on God (1885-1900)
On the Meaning of Life (1885-1900)

1886-1890
What Shall we do There ? (1886)
Popular Legends (1886)
The Power of Darkness (1886) (trans as "The Dominion of Darkness" 1888 London)
The First Distiller (1886)
Childhood, Boyhood & Youth (1886 Crowell, NY)
A Russian Proprietor (1887 T Y Crowell, NY)
The Invaders (1887 Crowell NY)
My Confession (1887 Crowell NY)
On Life (1888) (trans 1888 NY, 1889 London)
The Long Exile & Other Stories for Children (1888 Thomas Browell, NY)
The Fruits of Enlightenment (1889) (trans 1890 London)
(trans as "The Fruits of Culture" 1891 Boston)
The Kreutzer Sonata (1890) (1890 Bibliographical Office, Berlin - 1st Ed in English)
(1890 Benj Tucker, Boston)
[Filmed in 1987]
The Relation between the Sexes (1890)
Walk in the Light While ye Have Light (1890) (trans 1890 London)
Why People become Intoxicated (1890) (trans 1892 London)

1891-1900
Three Sons (1892)
The Terrible Czar : A Romance of the Time of Ivan the Terrible (1892 Sampson Low. 2nd Ed) - 2 vols
Labourer Emelyan and the Empty Drum (1892)
The First Step (1892)
Life is Worth Living (1892 Charles L Webster, NY)
The Kingdom of God is Within You (1893)
Religion and Morality (1894)
Master and Workman (1895) (trans 1895 London, 1895 NY)
Patriotism and Christianity (1894) (trans 1896 London)
What is Art (1897) (trans 1898 Brotherhood Publ Co, London)
The Christian Teaching (1897)
Resurrection (1899) (1900 Street & Smith, NY as "The Awakening")
[Filmed in 1931 & again in 1934 as "We Live Again"]

After 1901
The Only Means (1901 Free Age Press, Christchurch)
The Novels and Other Works (1902 Scibner NY) - 22 vols
The End of the Age (On the Approaching Revolution) (1906 Heinemann)
Hadji Murad (1912 Nelson) - ss
Paul Biryukov : Tolstoi's Love Letters (1923 Hogarth Press)
Anna Karenina (1933 Ltd Eds Club, Moscow) - 2 vols. 1500 signed by Nikolas Piskariov
War & Peace (1938 Ltd Eds Club, Glasgow) (1938 Ltd Eds Club, NY)
- 6 vols. 1500 signed by the Artist
Anna Karenina (1951 Ltd Eds Club, Cambridge UP) - 2 vols. 1500 signed by Barnett Freedman
What Men Live By (1951 L-D Allen Press, Belvedere) - 150
Resurrection (1963 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Fritz Eichenberg
War and Peace (1971 Folio Society) - 2 vols. Feliks Topolski
Childhood, Boyhood, Youth (1972 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Fritz Eichenberg
Tolstoy's Letters : Edited by R F Christian (1978 Athlone Press £20) - 2 vols

READING
Charles Edward Turner : Count Tolstoy as Novelist & Thinker (1888 Trubner, London)
Tikhon Polner : Tolstoy and His Wife (1940 Cape)
Derrick Leon : Tolstoy - His Life and Work (1944 Routledge)
Pietro Citati : Tolstoy
Valentin Bulgakov : The Last Year of Leo Tolstoy (1971 Hamish Hamilton £2.25)
Tatyana Tolstoy : Tolstoy Remembered (1975 Editions Albin Michel) (1977 Michael Joseph £8.50)