托尔斯泰是世界文学史上少数拥有广大读者群的作家之一,被公认是俄国最伟大的小说家、思想家和改革者。二十世纪初期,他开始扬名国际,主要便是因为几近无政府主义的反权威理论,及由之延伸的社会意识与宗教观。 Tolstoy is one of the few writers in the history of world literature with a large readership and is recognized as one of Russia’s greatest novelists, thinkers and reformers. Beginning in the twentieth century, he began to become famous internationally, mainly because of the almost anarchist anti-authority theory and the consequent social and religious conceptions.