How to pronounce“Tolstoy”in English

Nikolai Gogol and Leo Tolstoy wrote more controversial plays: Gogol’s was a farcical look at provincial corruption, “The Government Inspector,” and Tolstoy’s a baby-murdering classic,

Their first play was Aleksey Tolstoy’s “Tsar Fyodor.” and later that year, they revived Chekhov’s “Seagull.” The play was such a hit, that the theater adopted a seagull as its emblem.

First, that Tolstoy’s most famous book is called War and Peace.