Fruits of Culture Author:Leo Tolstoy Leo Tolstoy had a profound influence on people through out the Western world. Leo Tolstoy was a Russian novelist, essayist, dramatist and philosopher. Tolstoy was a member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family. He was known as an educational reformer, pacifist and Christian anarchist. His masterpiece War and Peace made him one of the world's g... more »reatest novelists. His ability to depict life in 19th century Russia made him a leader in realist fiction. Tolstoy's stand on nonviolent resistance influenced twentieth century people such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Ghandi. Fruits of Culture is a four-act comedy written in 1889. Tolstoy gives his audience a wonderful satire of the stupidity of the educated class. The professors, doctors, landowners, lawyers, and fashionable ladies are studying spiritualism. A maid dupes them all with her practical joke.« less