New Delhi, May 26 -- Leo Tolstoy, born Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy in 1828 at Yasnaya Polyana in the Russian Empire, became one of the greatest novelists and moral thinkers in world literature. After an aristocratic childhood, military service and early literary success, he wrote War and Peace and Anna Karenina, both widely regarded among the finest novels ever written. Later in life, Tolstoy became increasingly focused on faith, ethics, nonviolence, education, labour and the moral purpose of human life. Britannica describes him as a master of realistic fiction whose works explored the widest range of human experience.

"All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."- Leo Tolstoy

The quote appears in War and Peace, Bo...