Leo Tolstoy Wilson as one of the unhappiest in literary history. Tolstoy's relationship with his wife deteriorated as his beliefs became increasingly radical. This saw him seeking to reject his inherited and earned wealth, including the renunciation of the copyrights on his earlier works. Some of the members of the Tolstoy family left Russia in the aftermath of the 1905 Russian Revolution and the subsequent establishment of the Soviet Union, and many of Leo Tolstoy's relatives and descendants today live in Sweden, Germany, the United Kingdom, France and the United States. Among them are Swedish jazz singer Viktoria Tolstoy and the Swedish
Leo Tolstoy Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication Leo Tolstoy Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication Leo Tolstoy Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication, formerly Kazan Imperial University, is a higher educational institution of Kazan, one of the largest institutes of Kazan (Volga region) Federal University. The famed Russian writer Leo Tolstoy was a former student of Kazan University. IPIC has more than 3,000 students, 300 teachers and staff members, including 71 Ph.D and 188 candidates of sciences, 9 teachers from foreign countries. The Institute comprises 3 academic divisions: the Higher School of Russian and Foreign Philology, Gabdulla Tukay Higher School of Tatar Studies and Turkology and the