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How did Leo Tolstoy use the royalties from Resurrection to help the Dukhobors?

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Portrait of Leo Tolstoy with a long white beard, wearing a dark shirt and looking slightly to the side. — Leo Tolstoy Russian writer Leo Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the world's greatest novelists. His masterpieces are *War and Peace* (1865–69) and *Anna Karenina* (1875–77).

Leo Tolstoy used the royalties from his 1899 novel Resurrection to fund the transportation of the Dukhobors, a persecuted religious sect, to Canada.1

The Dukhobors were a pacifist group that faced significant persecution in Russia for their refusal to accept conscription and their rejection of state and church authority. Tolstoy, who supported their principles of moral and spiritual reform, successfully petitioned the tsar to allow the group to emigrate. With the financial support provided by the novel's royalties and additional funds collected by English Quakers, approximately 7,500 Dukhobors were able to reach Canada by 1899.21