Russian novelist and moral philosopher who wrote the great novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina. He advocated a classless, self-sufficient society that prized love and charity above economics. Practicing his beliefs, the aristocrat renounced his worldly possessions to live virtually penniless among the peasants he loved, and in 1910, seeking to get closer to God, he abandoned his home and family. Leaving home secretly and accompanied only by his physician and a daughter, he died in a remote railway station only a few days later of pneumonia. Vintage sepia 4.25 x 6.5 Russian cabinet photo, showing a three quarter length image of Tolstoy standing outdoors, boldly signed in fountain pen by Tolstoy, who has signed in Russian. In fine condition. RRAuction COA.
