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1 day ago · Leo Tolstoy at age 20, c. 1848. Tolstoy was born at Yasnaya Polyana, a family estate 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) southwest of Tula, and 200 kilometres (120 mi) south of Moscow. He was the fourth of five children of Count Nikolai Ilyich Tolstoy (1794–1837), a veteran of the Patriotic War of 1812, and Princess Mariya Tolstaya (née Volkonskaya; 1790 ...
3 hours ago · The aggravation of economic and social problems, rolling in like a snowball, caused by the First World War, and before that by the development of capitalism since the time of Alexander II; The obvious inability of the authorities to solve these problems contributed to the development of a deep social crisis, which resulted in an ideological and spiritual crisis that took shape in the period of ...
