The Russian novelist and moral philosopher Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) ranks as one of the world’s great writers, and his “War and Peace” has been called the greatest novel ever written.

Although he was born into nobility, Tolstoy spent much of his life as a champion of Russia’s peasant class, notably in the field of education.

He began his literary career in the 1850s, publishing a trilogy about his own life: Childhood (Detstvo, 1852), Boyhood (Otrochestvo, 1854) and Youth (Yunost’, 1857).

Each year since 1901 the Norwegian Storting has selected, via an elected five member Committee, a person or organization as the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Ninety-five individuals and twenty organizations have received this particular peace prize. Not included in this list is Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948). The reasons for being nominated five times but never been awarded it are open to discussion. More important for me is that regardless of whether or not [...]

Since nine centuries in European societies some myths about Prophet Muhammad have been established due to historical conflict between Europe and Islamic world. But many of thinkers, philosophers and scholars have had another opinion, an objective and logical. Poets, novelists and writers were more distinguished to express their views on Muhammad. Emotions or illusions did not plunge them about truth, which they used to discuss and reach it. Lessing, Goethe, Pushkin, Lamartine, Collins, in addition [...]