Leo Tolstoy Research Paper
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy’s mother died when he was two years old. Tolstoy was born on august 28, 1828 to Countess Mariya Tolstaya and Count Nikolai Ilyich Tolstoy in Yasnaya Polyana (his family’s estate) in the Tula Province of Russia. At the time he was the youngest of four sons but one of five to left by the count and countess. When his mother died, Leo Tolstoy’s father put the children in the care of his cousin Tatyana Ergolsky. Nine years later Count Nikolai Ilyich Tolstoy would also pass, making Alexandra Osten-Saken (Leo’s aunt) their legal guardian (Christian, R. F., 1969). Their aunt took care of them for three years before she as well passed, though her time with the young …show more content…
He was home schooled for most of his childhood by his relatives and paid tutors. Eventually, Leo and his older brothers went to study at the University of Kazan in Tatarstan Russia. He studied oriental languages before switching to law but ultimately just dropped out due to his excess partying and lack of desire to impress his teachers. He would often set goals to teach himself things throughout periods of time but would ultimately fail in light of all of his visits to friends of his in Moscow. Eventually Tolstoy developed a keen ability to think and philosophize about life, leading him to become the writer and intellectual famously known as Leo …show more content…
In December 1858 Leo and his brother Nicholas are hunting in the woods with many other at the invitation of the writer AA Fet. Walking through the forest Leo sees a bear running straight after him, he attempts to shot it but misses a first time and hits the bear in the mouth the second. The bear lunges for his face, clawing him and leaving him bloody before someone scared the bear away. The bear was able to gash his left check and trip some flesh from his forehead. He later writes in his diary that on December 21, he killed a bear and on December 22 a bear took a piece out of him too. Two weeks later, Leo Tolstoy walked into the forest in search for the bear that had wounded him. He would then walk out of the forest with three bears and his prize, the bear that had attacked him and would soon be his new fancy
Leo Tolstoy’s mother died when he was two years old. Tolstoy was born on august 28, 1828 to Countess Mariya Tolstaya and Count Nikolai Ilyich Tolstoy in Yasnaya Polyana (his family’s estate) in the Tula Province of Russia. At the time he was the youngest of four sons but one of five to left by the count and countess. When his mother died, Leo Tolstoy’s father put the children in the care of his cousin Tatyana Ergolsky. Nine years later Count Nikolai Ilyich Tolstoy would also pass, making Alexandra Osten-Saken (Leo’s aunt) their legal guardian (Christian, R. F., 1969). Their aunt took care of them for three years before she as well passed, though her time with the young …show more content…
He was home schooled for most of his childhood by his relatives and paid tutors. Eventually, Leo and his older brothers went to study at the University of Kazan in Tatarstan Russia. He studied oriental languages before switching to law but ultimately just dropped out due to his excess partying and lack of desire to impress his teachers. He would often set goals to teach himself things throughout periods of time but would ultimately fail in light of all of his visits to friends of his in Moscow. Eventually Tolstoy developed a keen ability to think and philosophize about life, leading him to become the writer and intellectual famously known as Leo …show more content…
In December 1858 Leo and his brother Nicholas are hunting in the woods with many other at the invitation of the writer AA Fet. Walking through the forest Leo sees a bear running straight after him, he attempts to shot it but misses a first time and hits the bear in the mouth the second. The bear lunges for his face, clawing him and leaving him bloody before someone scared the bear away. The bear was able to gash his left check and trip some flesh from his forehead. He later writes in his diary that on December 21, he killed a bear and on December 22 a bear took a piece out of him too. Two weeks later, Leo Tolstoy walked into the forest in search for the bear that had wounded him. He would then walk out of the forest with three bears and his prize, the bear that had attacked him and would soon be his new fancy