# [[Nikolai Fedorov (1829-1903)|Fedorov]] condemned [[Tolstoy]] as a Buddhist > Fedorov's objections to Tolstoy's late-period writings were chiefly that Tolstoy loved death and that while claiming to offer a simpler, truer form of Christianity, he was actually preaching neo-Buddhism. Tolstoy's doctrine of nontesistance was, to Fedorov, a total capitulation to the forces of nature, disintegration, and death. [#Young2012]: George M. Young. The Russian Cosmists: The Esoteric Futurism of Nikolai Fedorov and His Followers. 2012.