Which battle is a profound event in the Tolstoy novel " War and Peace " ?
The novel which has made its author " the true lion of the Russian literature " ( according to Ivan Goncharov ) upon its publication enjoyed great success with the reading public and spawned dozens of reviews and analytical essays in the press , some of which ( by Pisarev , Annenkov , Dragomirov and Strakhov ) formed the basis for Tolstoy scholars ' later research .