# Tolstoy — Orthodoxy character guide

> Tolstoy in Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Leo Tolstoy

**First appearance:** 0007-v-the-flag-of-the-world

## Who they are

Russian novelist and moralist, whose extreme pacifism is discussed.

## Relationships

### [Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orthodoxy_se/characters/narrator)

_psychological_

Tolstoy is a figure of moral and artistic gravity whose asceticism the narrator both respects and challenges.

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