Google Doodle … “Leo Tolstoy’s 186th birthday” today!!

~~September 9, 2014~~ 

If you know who Leo Tolstoy is, then you will unmistakably know that today’s Google Doodle is about him. Today, September 9, 2014, Google celebrates the world renowned author of novels like “War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina”.

~~Leo Tolstoy’s 186th birthday~~

Google doodles the great Russian author’s epic novels

A collection of images set within an interactive doodle attempts to capture the grandeur of the works one of the world’s greatest novelist – Leo Tolstoy.

The white-bearded, prolific writer was a master of realistic fiction and is revered the world over for addressing war, love, God and family in epic novels such as War and Peace and Anna Karenina.

War and Peace and Anna Karenina are regarded as among the finest novels ever written. Tolstoy’s works and his doctrine of nonresistance to evil had a great impact on Mahatma Gandhi.

~~Leo Tolstoy~~

Google Doodle #goodoocollect

~~Published on Sep 8, 2014~~

The Google Doodle – Leo Tolstoi – September 9th, 2014. Google celebrate the 186th birthday of Leo Leo Tolstoy. Leo Leo Tolstoy was a Russian philosopher, writer and political thinker. He primarily wrote short stories and novels. One of his best known novels is “Anna Karenina”. The Doodle shows some more titles of his novels.

Thumbs up for that nice interactive Google Doodle!

“As it appears in … “

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy

Count Lev Nikolayevich, 9 September, 1828, also known as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer, philosopher and political thinker who primarily wrote novels and short stories.

Tolstoy was a master of realistic fiction and is widely considered one of the greatest novelists of all time. He is best known for two long novels, War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). Tolstoy first achieved literary acclaim in his 20s with his semi-autobiographical trilogy of novels, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth (1852–1856) and Sevastopol Sketches (1855), based on his experiences in the Crimean War.

His fiction output also includes two additional novels, dozens of short stories, and several famous novellas, including The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Family Happiness, and Hadji Murad. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays.

Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer.

His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and anarcho-pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and James Bevel.

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~~TOLSTOY’S GALLERY~~

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