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Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy is considered by many to be the giant of Russian literature. Wealthy and talented, he was nevertheless restless and dissatisfied with himself and his society. Although he wished to believe in the innate goodness of man, he found himself as disgusted with the ignorance and petty greed of the peasants as he was with the artificiality of the aristocracy. During his most tranquil years, Tolstoy wrote his two great realistic novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Soon after these triumphs, however, his inner conflict between the lure of a “natural life” and the restraining dictates of reason and moral law came to a head, and he began to crave a religious justification of his life. Thus, when Tolstoy was about fifty, he evolved his own brand of Christianity, which was a kind of ethical humanism. The aim of man, as Tolstoy now saw it, was to do right, to love all men, and to free oneself from greed, anger, and lust. The ownership of property is thus evil, because it is the gratification of greed and asserts a single man’s monopoly over something that belongs to all. After this “conversion”, Tolstoy tried to give away his wealth and live simply, as a peasant. He died in an obscure railway station as he was running away from intolerable conditions at home, brought on by Countess Tolstoy’s desperate opposition to her husband’s radical new way of life.