War and Peace
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I think the connection you may find between Tolstoy and the Transcendentalists, is some sort of relation to the Truth (God, Self, Nature, etc) and the individual in a rational basis.
A rational/methodicla approach to a problem (Belief) that commonly is or is not felt by people. In both there's the sense of Isolating the individual in reflection directly upon the observation of Life and Nature. That was called "Realism" in Europe. In the Americas, which have inherited the English Romantism, it gained a spiritual (countryside) contour that Emerson and Thoureau develop -- but the names are irrelevant. The basic idea is the connection between Man and the Infinte, and the joy of lingering rationally in all its detail.
more info here:
http://www.spaceandmotion.com/Re…
http://eserver.org/thoreau/walde…
I hope that helps.