Leo Tolstoy

Masahisa Fukase, Family Portrait, 1972 “All happy families are alike; each unhappyfamily is unhappy in its own way.” Leo Tolstoy,...

First edition of The Kingdom of God Is Within You, 1894 / Tolstoy in Brussels, 1861 “The most difficult subjects...

Anton Chekhov and Leo Tolstoy in Gaspra, Crimea, 1901 To Mikhail Osipovich Yalta, January 28, 1900 Dear Mikhail Osipovich, Tolstoy’s...

Esperanto . "The key for a common language, lost in the Tower of Babel, can only be found in the...

1897 “Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that...

Annelise Kretschmer, Portrait au soleil, 1930 “He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks...

Leo Tolstoy telling a story to his grandchildren, 1909 “I want movement, not a calm course of existence. I...

Antonina Leonardov Rzhevskaya, Music, 1902-03 “Music is the shorthand of emotion.” Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910

Leo Tolstoy playing chess with the son of his friend and publisher Vladimir Chertkov, 1907Leo Tolstoy playing chess, 1908“A good player who loses...