# Count Tolstoy — What’s Wrong with the World character guide

> Count Tolstoy in What’s Wrong with the World by G. K. Chesterton.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Tolstoy

**First appearance:** 0001-what-s-wrong-with-the-world

## Who they are

The Russian novelist and philosopher, discussed as a moral and social critic.

## In the story

### [Part III: Feminism: Or the Mistake About Woman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/what_s_wrong_with_the_world_se/chapters/part-iii-feminism-or-the-mistake-about-woman)

Referenced in relation to the ideal of domestic simplicity and anarchism.

### [IV: The Truth About Education](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/what_s_wrong_with_the_world_se/chapters/iv-the-truth-about-education)

Mentioned as a figure who would rebuke a child for loving his country, representing an alternative educational approach.

### [VI: Authority the Unavoidable](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/what_s_wrong_with_the_world_se/chapters/vi-authority-the-unavoidable)

Mentioned as issuing a 'papal encyclical against music,' exemplifying the modern tendency to forbid rather than liberate.

### [X: The Case for the Public Schools](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/what_s_wrong_with_the_world_se/chapters/x-the-case-for-the-public-schools)

Mentioned as part of the 'Tolstoyan' view that courage is connected with cruelty.

### [A Doubt](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/what_s_wrong_with_the_world_se/chapters/iv-a-doubt)

Hudge uses Tolstoy to argue that nobody must take arms against anything.

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