sentences:  Strakhov worked on the literary journals "Time" and "Epoch" together with Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Apollon Grigoryev.He became one of the very few close friends of Leo Tolstoy.In the 1870s Nikolay Strakhov wrote his most famous philosophical work "World as a Whole" and was among the first (if not the first) to recognize Tolstoy's "War and Peace" as one of the world's greatest novels.