Leo Tolstoy's The Death Of Ivan Ilyich

Leo Tolstoy is known for writing one of the most famous novels of all time, War and Peace. This novels what written through the mind of Tolstoy, and his thoughts how we can make the most of our everyday lives. The novel take place during the time period when Napoleon invaded Russia and shows how the war affected families every lives. It is based on the thought of realism which Tolstoy best defines as, “History is what happens to us. Destiny is what we do with it.” This can also be thought of as understanding our history and learning to accept it. Leo Tolstoy, also known as Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, was born on September 9, 1828 in Yasnaya Polyana, Russia. He is known for writing some of the best novels ever written, and his novella, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, is defined as being a prime example of a novella. One of his greatest achievements is being known as religious teacher around

His life started out with a lot of tragedy when his mother died when he was two years old and his father died seven years after. Eleven months after that his grandmother died, and then his aunt Alessandra died 5 years after. Tolstoy’s most influential guardian was his aunt Tatyana, who played a major role in many of his early works. His first work was Detstvo, which was a fictional work that was based of the tragedies of his early years. His education consisted of him being homeschooled is his early years and having to transfer collages due to his poor record. His main focus was law faculty, where his most known writing was naked or instructional law code. Through his education, he was able to learn about some of the authors that inspired him most including: Laurence Sterne, Charles Dickens, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau the French philosopher. He found Rousseau to be such a big inspiration that he had a portrait of him in his medallion. After school, he began to write all his most famous novels until his death on November 20,