Tolstoy, Unamuno and Their Religious Essays. An Introduction.

One hundred years ago, in 1910, one of the greatest writers of all times, Lev (Leo) Nikolaevich Tolstoy died of pneumonia at the railway station in Astapovo, Russia far from his family and estate that he left behind in pursuit of the life of a humble and spiritual man. At the same time, in Spain, the philosopher and writer Miguel de Unamuno who considered Tolstoy to be his kindred spirit (in spite of the geographical distance between them and age difference of over thirty years) published his e ...