Leo Tolstoy 
My religion [EPUB ebook] 

‘I have not always been possessed of the religious ideas set forth in this book. For thirty-five years of my life I was, in the proper acceptation of the word, a nihilist, —not a revolutionary socialist, but a man who believed in nothing. Five years ago faith came to me; I believed in the doctrine of Jesus, and my whole life underwent a sudden transformation’.
 Leo Tolstoy
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy  (1828 – 1910), usually referred to in English as 
Leo Tolstoy , was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. He received multiple nominations for Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906, and nominations for Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902 and 1910, and his miss of the prize is a major Nobel prize controversy.
Translated by Huntington Smith