Why do you think Leo Tolstoy is an important figure in history?

Question by NeSiA ^^: why do you think Leo Tolstoy is an important figure in Russiain or European history?
please please please please help me !!!!
i’m doing a 5 minute speech on Leo tolstoy and that question is required.. please help me cause i have really no idea.
these are 3 of the requirements:
famous for/ role
achievement/ what they did
opinion: why do do u think this person is important to russian or European history

also i don’t really get the difference between the first requ irement and the second..
help?!?!

Answers and Views:

Answer by andrew w
For starters Leo Tolstoy was world famous for his epic novels “War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina.” He was an important figure politically within Russia and around the world for his outright condemnation of the tsarist regime, the Russian Orthodox Church, the double standards of society, the treatment of the poor and was above all an outspoken pacifist. The majority of his life’s work was actually devoted to treatises on society.

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