Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy and Crosscurrents, 8/28:    The Russian author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Lev Tolstoy was born on this date in 1828.  A celebration of this prodigious thinker, writer, and philosopher Leo Tolstoy will be held on Crosscurrents, 8/28 at 8 am.