Tolstoy’s Moral Lesson
The Philosophy of the Three Hermits
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5 min readSep 20, 2019
Most people know Leo Tolstoy through his epic novels Anna Karenina and War and Peace. Both are masterpieces of fiction. They are long, supremely detailed and full of understanding of human passions and follies.
But in the 1870s, having published these novels and achieving enormous fame, Tolstoy had a spiritual awakening. He renounced his…