Лев Толстой

Family Happiness is an 1859 novella written by Leo Tolstoy, first published in The Russian Messenger.

Renowned Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy had an abiding interest in children and in children's literature. At the age of twenty-one, he started a school for peasant children on his family's estate, and after returning from a stint in the military, he founded another, experimental school with the motto, "Come when you …