Despite its universal recognition as one of the greatest novels ever written, Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace has become popular shorthand for works of massive length. And while there is no correlation ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Alexandra Popoff makes no secret of the mission of her new biography of Sophia Tolstoy . Given exclusive access to her subject’s unpublished memoir and previously unavailable letters, Popoff sets out ...

History is riddled with stories -- often untold -- about the badly maligned woman behind the man. Whether model, muse, mother or mistress, women associated with great, or at least well-known, men have ...

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828–1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. He received nominations for ...

Several years ago, while researching a book about trying to become a serious senior tennis player in my sixties, I happened upon a photograph on the Tumblr feed of The Millions, the online literary ...

The revival of interest in Sophia Tolstoy doesn’t begin or end with Michael Hoffman’s 2009 film The Last Station, in which Helen Mirren portrayed Leo Tolstoy’s wife and muse. A year earlier, for ...

Leo Tolstoy has written 3 shows including War and Peace (Source Material), Strider: The Story of a Horse (Source Material), Chekhov/Tolstoy: Love Stories (Author).