# Leo Tolstoy

- Id: `tolstoy`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/tolstoy/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `available`
- Content checksum: `413b98fa6402ad33c69ccd44ba73d165eeaab1b28bff10b15d8a61edf1b2e671`

## Summary

Novelist, diarist and religious thinker, Tolstoy exposes the moral cost of war, property and social convention. His fiction and late essays confront privilege with conscience, non-violence, love and the certainty of death.

## Overview

Tolstoy died at Astapovo on 20 November 1910 Gregorian, 7 November Old Style.

## Lifespan

```json
{
    "display": "1828-1910",
    "era": "Long nineteenth century",
    "distance": "116–198 years ago",
    "age_at_death": 82
}
```

## Intellectual tradition

```json
{
    "id": "modern-philosophy",
    "name": "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
    "detail": "Russian literature and religious-moral philosophy",
    "labels": [
        "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
        "Russian literature and religious-moral philosophy"
    ]
}
```

## Historical cutoff

```json
{
    "year": 1910,
    "display": "1910 CE",
    "reason": "Tolstoy died at Astapovo on 20 November 1910 Gregorian, 7 November Old Style."
}
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 3,
    "passages": 1161,
    "languages": [
        "en",
        "fr"
    ],
    "intellectual_exposures": 2,
    "typed_relationships": 3
}
```

## Attested thinker encounters

```json
[
    {
        "person_id": "vladimir_chertkov",
        "name": "Vladimir Chertkov",
        "relationship_type": "editorial_and_intellectual_collaborator",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_refs": [
            "institutional.tolstoy.biography"
        ]
    }
]
```

## Places

```json
[
    {
        "name": "Yasnaya Polyana",
        "period": "1828; recurring home until 1910",
        "description": "Birthplace, family estate, school, principal writing place and burial site.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://tolstoy.ru/life/biography/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Kazan",
        "period": "1844-1847",
        "description": "University study before Tolstoy left without a degree.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://tolstoy.ru/life/biography/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Sevastopol",
        "period": "1854-1855",
        "description": "Military service during the Crimean War and the setting of the Sevastopol Sketches.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://tolstoy.ru/life/biography/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Moscow",
        "period": "1862-1910, intermittently",
        "description": "Marriage, family residence, publishing activity and social work recur in Tolstoy's Moscow life.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://tolstoy.ru/life/biography/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Astapovo railway station",
        "period": "November 1910",
        "description": "Tolstoy fell ill during his final journey and died in the stationmaster's house after seven days.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://tolstoymuseum.ru/about/museum-and-branches/astapovo/"
    }
]
```