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Tolstoy and Sophia: A Marriage That Began With a Diary of Sins
This article contains affiliate links. If you buy through them, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy. The author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, and in his later years a religious thinker w... -
Gandhi and Kasturba: The Marriage That Survived His Vow of Celibacy
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The man who opened India's road to independence from the British Empire with weaponless resistance, holding up nonviolence and truth. Called "Mahatma" — great soul — his name is still known around the world as... -
Mozart’s Love for Constanze and the Music It Inspired
Just saying his name seems to make the air lift, light and shimmering—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. He began composing at the age of five, a prodigy who dazzled all of Europe. The Marriage of Figaro and The Magic Flute shine wi... -
Martin Luther’s Marriage to Katharina von Bora, the Runaway Nun
In the 16th century, a man rose to challenge the authority of the papacy, stirring a storm of reformation that reshaped the very nature of faith in Europe — Martin Luther. Yet within his life lay another kind of “revolution.”He renounced... -
Murasaki Shikibu and the Quiet Passions Behind The Tale of Genji
Around the turn of the 11th century, in the middle of the Heian period, poetry and love were woven into the fabric of daily life, like light and shadow dancing together. In this era, one female poet left her name in history through the p...
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