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Indeed. Tolstoy himself dallied with Marxism during his misspent youth but as he grew older became very espoused with the idea of The "Russkaya Dusha", or the Russian Soul. This was inseparable from the Rodinya, ie: The Land, the Monarchy, and the Russian Orthodox Faith. Russia herself has had a history that is almost parallel to Tolstoy's life, with its 80 year dark night of Socialism, a brief spate of American-Style Republican Government and "modern" thinking, and then a reaching into the Traditional past with a revival of the Church, veneration of the Romanovs as Martyrs, a Folk revival, and even some of the bellicose actions of Russia's Imperial Past. It's quite interesting to see it unfold.

Dostoevsky had a similar epiphany. I just finished reading his "The Possessed" and his description of 19th Century "Social Justice Warriors" seemed so much like those today: Vapid, ill-informed, depressed, childish, and , in the end, without hope. (SPOILER: Everyone in that book dies horribly in the end!)

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(((I know that is grossly oversimplifying, but 1917 to 2017 have been a VERY INTERESTING 100 years!)))