1828 Leo Tolstoy was born

190 years ago, on September 9, 1828, Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was born, a Russian writer and thinker, the creator of a religious and social doctrine based on the idea of ​​non-resistance to evil by violence. In the early 1900s, he was nominated several times for the Nobel Prize in Literature, but in 1906 he himself declared that he would not receive it, since it would be contrary to his views. One way or another, the prize would hardly have been awarded to Tolstoy: he was a sharp critic of official Orthodoxy and the Russian authorities, with whom Sweden did not want to spoil relations.