Leo Tolstoy Timeline: |
1828- Leo Tolstoy was born on 28 August. 1844- He enrolled into Kazan University. 1847- He dropped out of the University. 1851- He went to Chechnya to join the military service. 1852- His first novel Childhood was published. 1855- He left army. 1859- Tolstoy established a school for peasants’ children at Yasnaya. 1860- His elder brother Nikolay died on 20 September. 1861- Tolstoy became Justice of the Peace. 1862- He married Sofia Andreyevna Behrs on 24 September. 1863- His masterpiece War and Peace was first published. 1876- Anna Karenina was first published in the Russian Herald. 1879- He wrote his confession. 1893- The Kingdom of God is Within You was published. 1901- Tolstoy renounced the authority of Orthodox Church. 1910- Tolstoy left home with his daughter Alexandra on 28 October. 1910- He died on 20 November. |