Leo Tolstoy, Russian Writer(1828-1910)

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detail of Tolstoy in peasant garb by Ilya Repin

Just the Facts:

• Name: Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
• Known as: Leo Tolstoy
• Birth: September 9, 1828, Yasnaya Polyana, Russia
• Death: November 20, 1910, Lev Tolstoy, Russia
• Language: Russian
• Who he was: Russian writer of novels War and Peace; Anna Karenina; A Confession; The Death of Ivan Ilyich; short stories
• Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (+10YP); GGB (+PGR 1, 3); LRP; HCF; Bloom; GC

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