Characters in his longest novel include the soldier Anatole Kuragin, the philosophical Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, and Pierre Bezukhov.
Nabokov's Ada opens with a misquotation of this author. After this author wrote a letter to Tarak Nath Das giving him advice on how to achieve Indian independence from Britain, Gandhi wrote to him asking for advice, starting a lengthy correspondence. A novella by this author begins with its protagonist eavesdropping on a conversation about marriage and love on a train. That work includes an (*) epilogue advocating sexual abstinence, while another of his works includes an epilogue critiquing the Great Man theory of history, particularly with regards to Napoleon, who appears in that novel's description of the Battle of Borodino. Characters in his longest novel include the soldier Anatole Kuragin, the philosophical Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, and Pierre Bezukhov. For 10 points, name this author of The Kreutzer Sonata and War and Peace.
Nabokov's Ada opens with a misquotation of this author. After this author wrote a letter to Tarak Nath Das giving him advice on how to achieve Indian independence from Britain, Gandhi wrote to him asking for advice, starting a lengthy correspondence.
Leo (Nikolaevich) Tolstoy