Leo Tolstoy  

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–Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (September 9, 1828 – November 20 1910) , commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer – novelist, essayist, dramatist and philosopher – as well as pacifist Christian anarchist and educational reformer. He is perhaps the most influential member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family.

As a fiction writer Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists, particularly noted for his masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina. In their scope, breadth and realistic depiction of 19th-century Russian life, the two books stand at the peak of realistic fiction. As a moral philosopher Tolstoy was notable for his ideas on nonviolent resistance through works such as The Kingdom of God is Within You, which in turn influenced such twentieth-century figures as Mohandas K. Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr..

This is a list of works by Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910). It is likely impossible to catalogue his complete works. From 1928 to 1958, a committee in the Soviet Union attempted to locate all Tolstoy's works. The project resulted in the publication of a ninety-volume set, bound in quarto, the man's entire bibliography.

Bibliography

Novels and novellas

• Childhood (Детство [Detstvo]; 1852)
• Boyhood (Отрочество [Otrochestvo]; 1854)
• Youth (Юность [Yunost']; 1856)
• Family Happiness (Семейное счастье [Semeynoye schast'ye]; 1859)
• The Cossacks (Казаки [Kazaki]; 1863)
• War and Peace (Война и мир [Voyna i mir]; 1865–69)
• Anna Karenina (Анна Каренина [Anna Karenina]; 1875–77)
• The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Смерть Ивана Ильича [Smert' Ivana Il'icha]; 1886)
• The Kreutzer Sonata (Крейцерова соната [Kreitserova Sonata]; 1889)
• Resurrection (Воскресение [Voskresenie]; 1899)
• The Forged Coupon (Фальшивый купон [Fal'shivyi kupon], 1902-1904, published 1911)
• Hadji Murat (Хаджи-Мурат [Khadzhi-Murat]; written in 1896-1904, published 1912)

Short stories

• "The Raid" (Набег [[Nabeg]]; 1852)
• "Sebastopol Sketches" (Севастопольские рассказы [Sevastopolskie Rasskazy]; 1855–56)
• "Albert" (Альберт; 1858)
• "Ivan the Fool: A Lost Opportunity" (1863)
• "Polikushka" (Поликушка [[Polikushka]]; 1863)
• "A Prisoner in the Caucasus" (Кавказский Пленник [Kavkazskii Plennik]; 1872)
• "God Sees the Truth, But Waits" (1872)
• "Father Sergius" (Отец Сергий [Otets Sergii]; 1873)
• "Kholstomer: The Story of a Horse" (Холстомер, 1864, 1886)
• "What Men Live By" (1885)
• "Wisdom of Children" (1885)
• "Where Love is, God is" (Где любовь, там и бог [[Gde lyubov', tam i bog]]; 1885)
• "Quench the Spark" (1885)
• "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" (Много ли человеку земли нужно [Mnogo li cheloveku zemli nuzhno]; 1886)
• "Promoting a Devil" (1886)
• "Repentance" (1886)
• "The Grain" (1886)
• "Master and Man and other stories" (1893)
• "Too Dear!" (1897)
• "The Devil" (1889)
• "Esarhaddon, King of Assyria" (1903) [1]
• "Work, Death and Sickness" (1903) [2]
• "Three Questions" (1903) [3]
• "Alyosha the Pot" (Алеша Горшок [Alyosha Gorshok]; 1905)
• "Three Deaths" (Три смерти [Tri smerti]; 1859)
• "Two Hussars" (Два гусара [Dva gusara]; 1856)
• "Strawberries" (Ягоды [Yagody]; 1906)
• "Korney Vasilyev" (Корней Васильев [Korney Vasilyev]; 1906)
• "Croesus and Fate"

Plays

• The Power of Darkness (Власть тьмы [Vlast' t'my]; 1886), drama
• The Fruits of Culture (play) (1889)
• The Living Corpse (Живой труп [Zhivoi trup]; published 1911), drama

Philosophical works

• A Confession (1882)
• What I Believe (also called My Religion) (1884)
• The Kingdom of God is Within You (1894)
• The Gospel in Brief (1896)
• What Is Art? (1897)
• Letter to the Liberals (1898)
• A Calendar of Wisdom (Путь Жизни [Put' Zhizni]; 1910)

Pedagogical works

• Articles from Tolstoy's journal on education, "Yasnaya Polyana" (1861-1862)