# Leo Tolstoy The first fact about Leo Tolstoy in a public catalog is not a marble prophet of peace. It is an officer’s Caucasian and Crimean service, a landlord’s school, a famine kitchen, and a Synod definition. Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leo-Tolstoy prints the life dates and the 1901 church act. The estate museum at https://ypmuseum.ru/?lang=en dates the 1859 school, the house, and the 1910 departure. Tolstoy.ru at https://tolstoy.ru/ carries collected works as a later public file. The National Library of Russia at https://nlr.ru/eng is a national library heading, not an autograph. Sevastopol Sketches at the 1855–56 press are a different instrument from the uniform. Estate paternalism after emancipation is inequality beside a school; split those signs. The 1880s tracts against church, state, and property are polarising print. The Holy Synod’s 20–22 February 1901 definition, published 24 February, is a church-state exclusion he did not sign. The 28 October 1910 flight and 20 November death at Astapovo are one household-and-property rupture, sourced without a bedroom novel. Offsets are also URLs. Gutenberg’s War and Peace at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2600 and Anna Karenina at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1399 are public English carriers. The 1891–92 kitchens are a verified relief campaign, not a unique national grain stock. The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1894) is treated in SEP’s pacifism entry at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pacifism/ as a nonresistance book. I Cannot Be Silent (1908) at https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/I_Cannot_Be_Silent protests hangings. Letter to a Hindu (14 December 1908) at https://www.marxists.org/archive/tolstoy/1908/letter-to-a-hindu.html, later introduced by Gandhi, is influence on nonviolence publicity, not a shared ashram office. The Gandhi Heritage Portal at https://www.gandhiheritageportal.org/ is a separate institutional page. What the score must not say: that he staffed a modern ministry of education; that 1891 kitchens cancel 1851 guns; that 1908 writes 1930; that 1935-style sanctity applies; that a 1921 museum is 1859. Complex contribution is the honest type. Confidence is high on school, books, Synod date, kitchens, and Astapovo dates; medium on unique enrolment, kitchen headcounts, and later satyagraha coefficients; low on private diary warfare as a welfare series. Related people are Sophia Tolstaya, Vladimir Chertkov, Gandhi, Strakhov, Turgenev, Fet — roles and periods, not a salon list. 1859 is a school. 1891 is bread. 1901 is a Synod page. 1908 is two letters on different addressees. 1910 is a station. Keep them unmerged. Later Loeb-style collected works are evidence, not additional acts. Confession English at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27189 is a public-domain crisis text, not the Synod’s edict. A reader checking this Person should open the museum timeline, the 1901 definition as lives print it, the 1891 kitchens, and the two 1908 letters, then stop. Remaining dated instruments kept after dropping later editions, museums, and split rows: 1851 army service; 1855 Sevastopol Sketches; 1859 school; 1862 estate headship; 1869 War and Peace; 1877 Anna Karenina; 1879 Confession; 1884 tracts; 1891 kitchens; 1894 Kingdom of God; 1901 Synod; 1908 I Cannot Be Silent; 1908 Letter to a Hindu; 1910 Astapovo. ## Dated facts - Tolstoy leaves Yasnaya Polyana on 28 October 1910 and dies at Astapovo on 20 November. https://factrail.ai/facts/lt-astapovo-1910. Sources: https://ypmuseum.ru/?lang=en, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leo-Tolstoy. - 1910: Secret will and diary-control arrangements favour Chertkov in the final household rupture. https://factrail.ai/facts/lt-chertkov-papers-1910. Sources: https://ypmuseum.ru/?lang=en, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leo-Tolstoy. - Letter to a Hindu (14 December 1908) is issued as a nonviolence text later introduced by Gandhi. https://factrail.ai/facts/lt-letter-to-a-hindu-1908. Sources: https://www.gandhiheritageportal.org/, https://www.marxists.org/archive/tolstoy/1908/letter-to-a-hindu.html. - I Cannot Be Silent protests the 1908 hangings as a dated public letter against capital punishment. https://factrail.ai/facts/lt-cannot-be-silent-1908. Sources: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/I_Cannot_Be_Silent, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leo-Tolstoy. - 1904: Tolstoy publicly opposes the Russo-Japanese War in dated letters and articles. https://factrail.ai/facts/lt-rj-war-protest-1904. Sources: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pacifism/, https://tolstoy.ru/. - 1901: Tolstoy’s public reply to the Holy Synod hardens the church-state polarisation. https://factrail.ai/facts/lt-reply-to-synod-1901. Sources: https://tolstoy.ru/, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leo-Tolstoy. - The Holy Synod publishes its 20–22 February 1901 definition excluding Tolstoy from the Orthodox Church. https://factrail.ai/facts/lt-synod-1901. Sources: https://tolstoy.ru/, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leo-Tolstoy. - 1899: Tolstoy organises fundraising and publicity for Dukhobor emigration. https://factrail.ai/facts/lt-dukhobor-aid-1899. Sources: https://ypmuseum.ru/?lang=en, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leo-Tolstoy. - 1899: Resurrection is published as a dated novel of courts, prisons, and conscience. https://factrail.ai/facts/lt-resurrection-1899. Sources: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/986, https://tolstoy.ru/. - 1894: The Kingdom of God Is Within You prints a dated teaching of nonresistance. https://factrail.ai/facts/lt-kingdom-of-god-1894. Sources: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pacifism/, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leo-Tolstoy. - Tolstoy organises famine-relief kitchens in the 1891–92 crop failure. https://factrail.ai/facts/lt-famine-kitchens-1891. Sources: https://ypmuseum.ru/?lang=en, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leo-Tolstoy. - 1891: Tolstoy publicly renounces copyright on his post-1881 writings as a dated access gift. https://factrail.ai/facts/lt-copyright-renunciation-1891. Sources: https://ypmuseum.ru/?lang=en, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leo-Tolstoy. ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/people/leo-tolstoy