On November 20, 1910, Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Russian author of several classic novels, including War and Peace, and novellas such as The Death of Ivan Ilyich, died. Late in his life he wrote a Letter to a Hindoo and the essay The Kingdom of God Is Within You that later served as a major influence on Mohandes K. Gandhi and the non-violent independence movement in India.
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