Tolstoy

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Starts writing a diary and returns to Yasnaya Polyana without finishing his degree when he comes into his inheritance

1851

Travels to the Caucasus with his brother Nikolay and joins the army

1852

Childhood is published

1854

Receives his commission and transfers to Bucharest, then the Crimea

1855

Sebastopol in December greeted with wide acclaim; arrives in St Petersburg and meets Turgenev and other writers for the first time

1856

Death of brother Dmitry; retires from the army

1857

First visit to Western Europe

1859

Opens school at Yasnaya Polyana for the peasants

1860

Second visit to Western Europe, to study pedagogy; death of brother Nikolay

1861

Appointed Justice of the Peace after serfs are emancipated; opens more schools and founds an educational journal

1862

Yasnaya Polyana raided by the secret police while Tolstoy is in Samara; marries Sofya Bers

1863

Starts writing War and Peace (completed 1869); birth of first child – son Sergey