Leo Tolstoy was one of the greatest Russian writers and thinkers of the nineteenth century. In his long life, he wrote some unparalleled masterpieces - War and Peace and Anna Karenina.

In his early life, Tolstoy was obsessed with physical love and had many close companions. But after marriage, he was a loving husband to Sonya who was nearly half as old as he was then. They had 12 children. Tolstoy was a kind-hearted person.

The grief expressed after his death by the peasants of Yasnaya Polyana, his native village, and all at a stationmaster's house showed that he was also a benign landlord and an affectionate person.

Tolstoy's views and writings radical during that period in Russia and are commended even today.