# Leo Tolstoy — What Is Art? character guide

> Leo Tolstoy in What Is Art? by Leo Tolstoy.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Tolstoy

**First appearance:** 0001-the-author-s-preface

## Who they are

Author and narrator of the treatise, arguing for a moral theory of art.

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