Leo Tolstoy

 

Tolstoy facts
Tolstoy was a vegetarian.
He was excommunicated from the Russian orthodox church in 1901.
As a young man, Tolstoy abandoned his university studies and ran up large gambling debts.
In the early 1860s, after a trip to Europe, Tolstoy returned home and founded 13 schools.
The title for ‘War and Peace’ was borrowed from the title of a manuscript by French anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon that Tolstoy reviewed.
Tolstoy served as a second lieutenant in an artillery regiment during the Crimean War.
 http://blog.europeana.eu/2013/09/tolstoy-novelist-and-anarchist/