Download or read book Essays, Letters and Miscellanies written by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leo Tolstoy, or Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910), was a Russian writer widely regarded as among the greatest of novelists for his masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Tolstoy's further talents as essayist, dramatist, and educational reformer made him the most influential member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family.