The very first Google Doodle appeared in 1998 and featured a reference to the Burning Man festival that Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were attending.

His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God is Within You, had a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus caused him in later life to become a Christian anarchist. He was also known for his complicated persona and extreme moralistic views, which he adopted following a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and a social reformer. Tolstoy was a master of realistic fiction and is widely considered one of the greatest novelists of all time. The scene at the top of the street was awful, then someone grabbed me and. One of his most successful later works was the novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich, written in 1886 in which the main character Ivan Ilyich struggles to come to grips with his impending death. It was lunchtime and as I was approaching the canteen, a Doodle Bug was very. It detail events surrounding the French invasion of Russia and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, as seen through the eyes of five Russian aristocratic families.Īnna Karenina was first published in installments between 18 and tells of the tragic story of a married socialite and her affair with the affluent Count Vronsky. The author published War and Peace, considered one of the most important works in world literature, in the late 1860s.

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