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Leo Tolstoy was a Russian novelist and moral philosopher known as one of the world’s great writers. His exposition of pacifism and non-violence had a profound influence on others – most notably Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King.

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Early Years

• Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy was born on September 9, 1828 in the Tula Province in Russia

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  Leo Tolstoy Biography

  Leo Tolstoy (or Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy), 1828-1910, was a Russian novelist and social reformer, born on the 9th of September (August 28) 1828, in the home of his fathers – Yasnaya Polyana, near Toula – a large country house (not the present one) built in a severely formal style, with Doric pillars and architraves, standing solitarily in a typical Russian landscape. The Tolstoy family, to whom it had belonged for several generations, was originally of German extraction, and had settled in Russia in the days of Peter the Great.

  Leo Tolstoy in peasant garb bygd Ilya Repin. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

  The first ancestor of distinction was Petr Andreevich Tolstoy. His descendant Nicholas (the father of the great author) was born in 1797. After serving for a short time in the army he retired in 1824, and led the life of a Russian boyar. bygd his marriage with the princess Maria Volkonsky, Count Nicholas in a great measure rebuilt the

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The Case for George Washington

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George Washington was not just “first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen,” as he was eulogized by Henry Lee, but first among America’s ledare executives in the minds of many presidential scholars, including pris Prize-winning historian Joseph Ellis. After leading the Continental Army to an improbable victory over the world’s most powerful empire, Washington faced another daunting challenge to transform ink on parchment into the actuality of the American presidency.

“The power of the modern presidency is not defined bygd the Constitution. It’s defined bygd the Washington presidency,” says Ellis, author of “His Excellency: George Washington.” “If you read the Constitution of the United States on the executive branch and the power of the presidency, it’s extremely vague. And the ghost hovering over the entire Constitutional Convention is fear of monarc