New Delhi, Oct 27 Petr Tolstoy, the great-great-grandson of the legendary Leo Tolstoy, attended the just-concluded 12th BRICS Parliamentary Forum as part of a Russian delegation.
BJP MP Raghav Chadha said he met Tolstoy, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs (Member of Parliament), on the sidelines of the two-day conclave, chaired by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Those who attended include Parliamentary delegations from BRICS member nations and partner countries.
“Had the pleasure of meeting Petr Tolstoy, the great-great-grandson of the legendary Leo Tolstoy on the sidelines of the 12th BRICS Parliamentary Forum at Parliament House, New Delhi,” Chadha said in a post on ‘X’.
The BJP MP said one of the greatest writers and philosophers of all time, Leo Tolstoy, the celebrated author of ‘War and Peace’ and ‘Anna Karenina’, was much more than a literary genius.
“Born into aristocracy, he questioned privilege and inequality. A soldier who witnessed the horrors of war, he became a passionate advocate of peace, non-violence, compassion and truth,” he said.
The Rajya Sabha MP said what makes his legacy particularly special to Indians is his profound intellectual and spiritual connection with Mahatma Gandhi.
“More than a century later, meeting his direct descendant, himself a distinguished parliamentarian, at India’s Parliament was a special moment,” he said.
Chadha said it is a beautiful reminder that while nations may be separated by geography, great ideas know no borders.
“The intellectual connection between Tolstoy’s Russia and our India remains a timeless chapter in the friendship between our two great nations,” he said.
(PTI News)
