The longer I live–especially now when I clearly feel the approach of death–the more I feel moved to express what I feel more strongly than anything else, and what in my opinion is of immense ...

Count Lev Tolstoy is one of those writers who was as fascinating and complex as his novels and stories. A man so awful and quarrelsome to those around him, especially his long-suffering wife, was ...

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 ...

One hundred years ago, in the middle of the night, Lev Tolstoy, 82 years old and in failing health, suddenly fled Yasnaya Polyana, his estate south of Moscow. The disappearance of Russia's most famous ...

Tolstoy has passed his eightieth birthday and now stands before us like an enormous jagged cliff, moss-covered and from a different historical world. A remarkable thing! Not only Karl Marx but―to cite ...

On October 16, 1944, a private Moscow audience attended the modest premiere of an opera by one of the Soviet Union's most successful composers, Sergei Prokofiev. The opera was "War and Peace." Based ...

At the Golden Globes this past Sunday, the nominees for best movie actress in a drama included Helen Mirren, who earned her nod for a movie most Americans haven't yet had the chance to see. Currently ...

Few lives have been more examined, not least by himself, than Lev Tolstoy’s. Born in 1828 into the Russian nobility, the future author of “War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina” had reasons to take ...