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Who influenced Leo Tolstoy?

  • Aristotle

    Classical Greek philosopher and polymath (384-322 BC)

    Influenced 75

    Influenced by 10

  • Plato

    Greek philosopher (c. 427 – 348 BC)

    Influenced 62

    Influenced by 7

  • Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    Russian novelist (1821–1881)

    Influenced 37

    Influenced by 18

  • Arthur Schopenhauer

    German philosopher (1788–1860)

    Influenced 28

    Influenced by 6

  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712–1778)

    Influenced 20

    Influenced by 0

  • Charles Dickens

    English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)

    Influenced 19

    Influenced by 0

  • Victor Hugo

    French novelist, poet, dramatist and politician (1802–1885)

    Influenced 15

    Influenced by 1

  • Henry David Thoreau

    American essayist, poet, and philosopher (1817–1862)

    Influenced 12

    Influenced by 8

  • Alexander Pushkin

    Russian poet, playwright, and novelist (1799–1837)

    Influenced 11

    Influenced by 8

  • Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

    French politician, philosopher, anarchist and socialist (1809–1865)

    Influenced 11

    Influenced by 7

  • George Eliot

    English novelist, essayist, poet and journalist (1819–1880)

    Influenced 10

    Influenced by 2

  • The Buddha

    Indian philosopher and the founder of Buddhism (623 or 563 BCE – 543 or 483 BCE)

    Influenced 10

    Influenced by 0

  • Peter Kropotkin

    Russian revolutionary socialist and philosopher (1842–1921)

    Influenced 9

    Influenced by 2

  • Henry George

    American political economist and journalist (1839–1897)

    Influenced 7

    Influenced by 0

  • Nikolai Gogol

    Russian writer of Ukrainian origin (1809–1852)

    Influenced 5

    Influenced by 4

  • Laurence Sterne

    Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican cleric (1713–1768)

    Influenced 4

    Influenced by 0

  • Stendhal

    19th century French writer

    Influenced 4

    Influenced by 0

  • African Spir

    Russian philosopher (1837-1890)

    Influenced 2

    Influenced by 0

  • Harriet Beecher Stowe

    American abolitionist and author (1811–1896)

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 0

  • Petr Chelčický

    15th century Bohemian Christian radical

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 0

Who was influenced by Leo Tolstoy?

  • Mahatma Gandhi

    Indian independence activist (1869–1948)

    Influenced 17

    Influenced by 9

  • Anton Chekhov

    Russian dramatist and author (1860–1904)

    Influenced 11

    Influenced by 11

  • Muhammad Iqbal

    South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician (1877-1938)

    Influenced 8

    Influenced by 12

  • Lev Shestov

    Russian existentialist philosopher (1866 – 1938)

    Influenced 6

    Influenced by 12

  • Philip Roth

    American novelist (1933-2018)

    Influenced 6

    Influenced by 30

  • Ursula K. Le Guin

    American fantasy and science fiction author (1929–2018)

    Influenced 6

    Influenced by 16

  • Ilya Repin

    Russian-empire painter of Ukrainian birth (1844-1930)

    Influenced 5

    Influenced by 23

  • Margaret Atwood

    Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor

    Influenced 2

    Influenced by 15

  • Nikolai Berdyaev

    Russian philosopher

    Influenced 2

    Influenced by 14

  • Sergei Bulgakov

    Russian Orthodox Christian theologian, philosopher, priest and economist (1871-1944)

    Influenced 2

    Influenced by 5

  • Anna Akhmatova

    Russian poet (1889–1966)

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 8

  • Gustav Landauer

    German anarchist, editor (1870-1919)

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 8

  • Liu Cixin

    Chinese science fiction writer

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 3

  • Narcís Oller

    Spanish author (1846-1930)

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 6

  • Norman Mailer

    American writer (1923–2007)

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 14

  • Simon Hollósy

    Hungarian artist (1857-1918)

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 7

  • Boris Saidman

    Israeli author

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 1

  • Harold Williams

    New Zealand journalist, editor and polyglot (1876–1928)

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 1

  • Jonathan Franzen

    American writer

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 13