Last week, however, it was revealed at London that Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), although an apostle of religious humility and the other cheek, once made a sharp retort to Bernard Shaw.

Jordan King is a Newsweek reporter based in London, U.K. Her current focus is on religion, health, food safety and population. She has covered the persecution of religions in the global south ...

As we catch up at the five-day programme, I learn that Daniil is the great-grandson of Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, the Russian literary and cultural icon (referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy), who ...