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Leo Tolstoy Analysis

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Leo Tolstoy

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
This is the famous opening line of the old Russian literary piece Anna Karenina.
In his interpretation the director Joe Wright will now bring these timeless characters, and their thought-provoking narrative back to life.
But who was Leo Tolstoy, the man behind the original story? This is the question we are answering in this article, in an attempt to bring further depth and understanding for those who choose to watch the film.

Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 in the city of Tula, Russia. The Tolstoy family was an old and well known part of the Russian Nobility, and as Leo’s mother passed away when he was only 1 year old he was raised alongside his …show more content…

He found no such answers, but instead found that in his eyes the Christian church as an organised form of religion was limiting and corrupt. Instead he found his own beliefs and answers, which he shared through a publication called The Mediation.
The Orthodox church found these ideas highly controversial and Tolstoy was ejected from the church. He was even under watch by the secret police for a while.
His beliefs made him want to give his money away, an idea his wife was strongly opposed to. This put a great strain on their marriage, and ended with Tolstoy giving the copyrights, (and presumably also the royalties) of all his publications preceding 1882 away to her. After this he went on to write a number of other books, such as The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Father Sergius, and

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