For 10 points, name this Russian author of Â works like The Kreutzer Sonata and The Death of Ivan Ilyich.
This author wrote the title character's encounters with Tarras the fat-bellied in one tale, in which the title figure only allows people with calluses to eat at his table. One of this author's stories opens with the narrator contemplating a crushed, but living, thistle on a field, a representative of the title character who rages against Gamzat. In addition to penning Ivan the Fool and Hadji Murad, this author wrote of Pahom's long walk to try to secure property from the (*) Bakshirs, only to drop dead and be buried in a six-foot grave, thus ironically answering the title Â question in Â "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" He also wrote a short story of a man who takes comfort in his servant Gerasim after suffering a fatal accident. For 10 points, name this Russian author of Â works like The Kreutzer Sonata and The Death of Ivan Ilyich.
This author wrote the title character's encounters with Tarras the fat-bellied in one tale, in which the title figure only allows people with calluses to eat at his table.
Leo Tolstoy