Lev Tolstoy

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 …

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