Who were regarded as his equals in the late 1850s?
Mark Twain and Charles Dickens
Ivan Turgenev and Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald
William Shakespeare and Edgar Allan Poe
Answer
Ivan Turgenev and Fyodor Dostoyevsky were regarded as his equals in the late 1850s. They were all part of the same literary circle and were all highly acclaimed writers. Turgenev was known for his realistic novels, while Dostoyevsky was known for his psychological novels. Tolstoy was also a realistic novelist, but his work was often more philosophical and moralistic than Turgenev's or Dostoyevsky's.
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