Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is best known as the writer of the war and peace (Война и мир) novel, but in the last 30 years of his life preached an anarcho-pacifist Christian of loving one's brother and turning the other cheek. As a Count he was born into the aristocracy, but came to believe that his class were a burden on the back of the poor. he greatly influenced Gandhi with his ideas of non-violent resistance, and it is these ideas rather than his anarchist ideas which have survived as a force in the modern world.