Leo Tolstoi

With his wife Sofia

Born Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

September 9, 1828

Yasnaya Polyana, Russian Empire

Died November 20, 1910 (aged 82)

Astapovo, Russian Empire

 

Russian writer, philosopher and political thinker who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Tolstoy was a master of realistic fiction and is widely considered one of the greatest novelists of all time. He is best known for two long novels, War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877)

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