"The Contradictions of Leo Tolstoy"

Leo Tolstoy's story of ideological, social, and marital contradictions.

Leo Tolstoy was a 19th-century pacifist whose admirers included religious and social leaders such as Mohandas Gandhi, the Dalai Lama, and Martin Luther King Jr., who won the 20th-century Nobel Peace Prize.

One of the tragedies of his life was that his wife Sonia hated him as much as he was loved by pacifists all over the world. In the last days of his life, his married life became so painful and painful that he wrote in his diary my marriage has become a hell from which I see no escape.

Leo Tolstoy in his native Russia in 1828

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was born in It was the ancestral home spread over an area of two thousand acres of land. On this land, there were extensive forests, fields for farming, and a two-story house. Leo Tolstoy inherited the forest 'land', farm, and house when he was only nineteen years old.

Leo Tolstoy grew up in a loving family. He had four brothers and one sister. He was the youngest of the children. Unfortunately, when Leo Tolstoy was two years old, his kind mother died and when he was nine years old, his father left his head and Leo Tolstoy became an orphan in his childhood. Leo loved his sister Maria very much and this desire lasted all his life. He used to write loving letters to his sister wherever he lived.

When Leo Tolstoy and his siblings were no longer under the shadow of both parents, Toinita, Leo Tolstoy's aunt, raised and cared for all these children as her own. Aunt Toinita was a very kind and kind woman and Leo Tolstoy had a motherly love and respect for her.

An interesting memory in Leo Tolstoy's childhood memories is of a blind man who was a storyteller. He used to visit their house regularly and narrate stories to the children. Leo Tolstoy was so impressed by this storyteller that his heart whispered that one day he will write and tell stories and become famous.

When Leo Tolstoy was fourteen, he began reading Russian literature. Pushkin was his favorite writer and he memorized his works by heart.

Leo Tolstoy began to challenge traditional religion at an early age. He wanted to find his truth through his thought and thought and present it in his creations.

He had three dreams in his youth

wealth

fame

And

A woman

He thought that if he became a popular general writer, this fame would bring him wealth and women too. And their dreams will be shattered.

Leo Tolstoy started drinking, gambling, and flirting with gypsy women in his youth. In 1853, when Russia went to war with Turkey, Leo Tolstoy, inspired by his patriotism, joined the army and served for three years.

While serving in the army, he started writing articles about the war and publishing them in newspapers, which became very popular. Thus began his creative life. Gradually, Leo Tolstoy became so famous as a war journalist that his writings reached the Ashab Bast and Kushad, and Tsar Russia used to read his column with great interest.

For the first time in 1855 Leo Tolstoy wrote in his diary that he should found a new religion, a religion that would be kind like Christianity but free from stereotypes and beliefs. A religion that tries to make this world a paradise instead of making promises of paradise in the next world.

When Leo Tolstoy became a popular general journalist and people began to read his writings with interest, he began to object to the government. The government did not like his criticism at all and Czar Russia used two tactics to silence him

The first tactic was to make them famous as anarchists to discredit them throughout the country.

The second strategy is to send the police to their house. The police searched for two days but did not find any objectionable literature and returned disappointed.

At the age of thirty-four, Lyutalstai fell in love with an eighteen-year-old fair-faced Sonia and married her. After a year of marriage, his wife became pregnant. Meanwhile, Leo Tolstoy wrote in a letter to his beloved sister Maria

I am very happy in my life.

I have a loving wife and she is pregnant these days. I am going to be a father. My wife Sonia loves me so much that I am afraid of the intensity of this love.

I'm currently writing a novel and I'm in a creative frenzy. '

The novel that Leo Tolstoy mentioned in his letter began to be serialized in 1865 under the title War and Peace. It was not only an unusual but also an unconventional novel that crossed all the boundaries of the conventional novel.

In the beginning, while Lyutalisti had admirers, there were also critics like his writer Turgenev, who wrote in objection.

"When an ignorant person like Leo Tolstoy starts to sprinkle philosophy in his novel, what can be a bigger mistake than that"

But when the novel reached its completion in 1869, even critics like Trugeneau knelt and admitted that it was a masterpiece.

Leo Tolstoy presents hundreds of characters and thousands of events in the novel which is hundreds of pages long. In this novel, there is an unprecedented history of humanity. In the novel, Leo Tolstoy