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.