It took Tolstoy six years to write War and Peace, beginning in 1862. read more
Tolstoy's War and Peace was first published in Russia in 1865; it took several years to write, in the early 1860's. read more
Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer and creator of the two long novels, War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). Tolstoy died in 1910 but his ideas on nonviolent resistance had great impact on twentieth-century figures as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King. read more