Love and grief have always been closely related in human life. Those who love deeply will often feel more deeply when faced ...

Several years ago, while researching a book about trying to become a serious senior tennis player in my sixties, I happened upon a photograph on the Tumblr feed of The Millions, the online literary ...

For mountain climbers, one imagines that Mt. Everest looms as the ultimate climb to validate one’s ability. For runners, it would be the Boston Marathon, for triathletes the Iron Man? Which meant I ...

Leo Tolstoys quote, “Let us forgive each other, only then will we live in peace,” carry a simple yet powerful message about human relationships and emotional balance. It reminds us that disagreements ...

The old magician stands before me, alien to all, a solitary traveler through all the deserts of thought, in search of an all-embracing truth which he has not found—I look at him and, although I feel ...

Marking the death of Leo Tolstoy 110 years ago on November 20, we present photos from the life of one of Russia's greatest writers. 1 Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy poses for a portrait at the age of 20. The ...

In a compact 85 minutes, “The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens, and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord” ambitiously wades through life’s most primal, yet endlessly perplexing concepts ...

THE director of the Tolstoy Museum, Alexei Ivanovich Korzinkov, had a face like the udder of a cow — it was a delicate pink, in fat creases, covered with a golden down. Although he was not an army man ...

Leo Tolstoy died 100 years ago, on Nov. 20, 1910, and his name has become synonymous around the world with the greatness of Russian literature. But in Russia, Tolstoy’s philosophy — “Tolstovstvo” — ...

Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren as Leo and Sofya Tolstoy in "The Last Station." Helen Mirren outdoes even her Oscar-winning performance in “The Queen” with her tour de force as Countess Sofya ...

There was a rumor, among professors who came on board later, that the founders of Tolstoy College originally wanted to name their school after Leon Czolgosz, the Polish-American anarchist who ...