Leo Tolstoy was a famous Russian author who wrote a favorite children’s story and was complimentary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its teachings.
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Then Count Leo Tolstoy rebuked the ambassador. “Dr. White, I am greatly surprised and disappointed that a man of your great learning and position should be so ignorant on this important subject. Their principles teach the people not only of heaven and its attendant glories, but how to live so that their social and economic relations with each other are placed on a sound basis. If the people follow the teachings of this church, nothing can stop their progress—it will be limitless.”