1847 dissatisfied with school education, he dropped out of school and returned to his hometown of Jasna? Poliana. He tried to improve the situation of farmers in his manor, but failed. 185 1 year, he went to the Caucasus with his eldest brother, became a volunteer, and then participated in the Crimean war. Tolstoy began to write in the 1950s.
His early works mainly include: autobiographical trilogy "Childhood? Teenagers? Youth (185 1 ~ 1857), Sebastopol's story (1856), novella Morning of a Landlord (1856), novels written during traveling in Western Europe.
In the early 1960s, his creation reached its climax. In addition to the novella Cossack (1853 ~ 1863), he also wrote the epic novel War and Peace (1866 ~ 1869). The main work in the 1970s was the novel Anna? Karenina (1873 ~ 1877). In the late 1970s and early 1980s, on the basis of long-term spiritual exploration, he completed a complete transformation of his world outlook, divorced from his own class and turned to patriarchal farmers.
At this time, he strengthened his criticism of the autocratic system, and at the same time advocated "not confronting evil with violence" and "self-improvement in morality". After the 1980s, Tolstoy continued to publish his representative works. The novel Resurrection was completed on 1899, which can be said to be a summary of the writer's life-long thought and artistic exploration.
In addition, the main works published are: the novel Ivan? Ilych's death (1886), hazel? Miao La (1904), Behind the Ball (191year), The Power of Darkness (1886), The Promethean (19/year).
19101010 ran away from home, got pneumonia on the way, and died at Astabovo station on the 20th. At the age of 82.
Extended data:
His representative works include the novels War and Peace, Anna karenin, Resurrection and the autobiographical trilogy Childhood, Adolescence and Youth. Other works include The Landlord's Morning, Cossack and The Story of Sevastopol. He also wrote many fairy tales.
He worked hard all his life and reached the peak of critical realism literature in Europe at that time. He also tried to create "the first-class works in world literature" with his powerful brushwork and superb artistic skills, so he was praised by Lenin as "a genius artist with the most vivid realism".
Tolstoy's thought is full of contradictions, which is a reflection of complex contradictions in Russian society and a vivid portrayal of a noble intellectual with a sense of justice who is awake and weak, struggling and hesitant, shouting and frustrated when seeking a new life.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy