1900's - ORIGINAL PHOTO - LEO TOLSTOY - Postally Unused

An original photographic postcard, depicting Leo Tolstoy among a group of Russians, Early 1900's, measuring approximately 3.5 inches x 5.5 inches (9cm x 14cm). Slighly worn at corners, some expected fading to edges, typical of the period's printing process,otherwise in very good condition. Postally NOT used. Verso BLANK.

Leo Tolstoy, or Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910), was a Russian writer widely regarded as among the greatest of novelists. His masterpieces "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina" represent in their scope, breadth and vivid depiction of 19th-century Russian life and attitudes, the peak of realist fiction.

Tolstoy's further talents as essayist, dramatist, and educational reformer made him the most influential member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family. His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as "The Kingdom of God Is Within You", were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.