The topic “Leo Tolstoy and Huxley” has already attracted the attention of scholars (V.S. Rabinovich, Yu.V. Prokopchuk et al.), nevertheless this paper is the first to examine the rapprochements between Tolstoy and Huxley that arose spontaneously or deliberately in the minds of reviewers who were Huxley’s contemporaries. Based mainly on the fundamental anthology Aldous Huxley: The Critical Heritage compiled and edited by Donald Wat, the reviewers’ references to Leo Tolstoy (A. Maurois, R. West, Ch. P. Snow, G. W. Heusermann, D. Garnett, C. King, P. Bloomfield) are analyzed in terms of their ideological content, pragmatics, significance for Aldous Huxley’s literary reputation, and the construction of a cultural dialogue between Russia and the West. It is concluded that, despite the seeming randomness of references to Tolstoy in reviews of Huxley’s contemporaries, the following tendency can be traced: from sporadically ironic allusions to direct analogies between Huxley and Tolstoy as moralists aiming at cultural synthesis and concerned with the future of mankind. This research allows to speculate not only about the intensity of Tolstoy’s influence on Huxley and the obviousness of this fact for his contemporaries, but also about the role of the Russian classic literature in Western cultural consciousness in the first half of the 20th century.