Novelist. Born to an aristocratic Russian family. 1870s had a spiritual awakening and become a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist.
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Leo Tolstoy
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Anarchists
This art work is in the style of Donald Rooum. He was the Anarchists' self-ef...
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