Leo Tolstoy and "How Much Land" Mini-Lesson
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Leo Tolstoy and "How Much Land" Mini-Lesson
Russian Literature in English Class
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This fellow is Leo Tolstoy.
He wrote Anna Karenina and War and Peace, two of the most celebrated novels ever. Aside from being one of the most venerated authors of his time, he had a fairly...interesting life.
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A Young, Idealistic Noble
Tolstoy inherited the title of "count" and his family estate at only nineteen years old! He was young and full of ideals that were not terribly popular among the older nobility.
This was still only 1847, so Czar Alexander hadn't freed the serfs yet. Tolstoy wasn't necessarily a fan of having people who were forced to work his land, pay rent to live there, and pay him taxes on top of all that. It just didn't seem fair to him. He made it his personal goal to help the people on his lands.
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Tolstoy had a meltdown.
Tolstoy eventually began questioning whether everything he had done in life had been wrong when he became richer after publishing two extremely popular novels back to back. He saw himself as nothing more than a hypocrite, helping peasants while taking advantage of them and living recklessly for many years.
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What's a guy to do?
Tolstoy turned to Baha'i spirituality...then began dismantling his wealth. Eventually, he was, essentially, living as much like a peasant as possible, doing fieldwork, staying in modest housing, and wearing modest clothing while rejecting all temptations of finer things and helping those in need with any worldly wealth he had left.
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