Leo Tolstoy Facts | Facts about Leo Tolstoys

How long is "War and Peace"?

Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace" is about 587,000 words long.

Leo Tolstoy was nominated for the Nobel Prize many times but never won.

Tolstoy's wife, Sophia, copied the "War and Peace" manuscript by hand several times.

Leo Tolstoy's ideas about nonviolence influenced Mahatma Gandhi, and the two exchanged letters.

Leo Tolstoy died at a railway station in 1910, at age 82.

Leo Tolstoy was excommunicated by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1901.

Leo Tolstoy's estate was called Yasnaya Polyana.

The "Anna Karenina principle," used in science, is named after the opening line of Tolstoy's novel.

Leo Tolstoy was a Russian count.

Leo Tolstoy learned to ride a bicycle at age 67.