Leo Tolstoy
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was born at Yasnaya Polyana, in Tula province, Russia, on 9 September 1828 (28 August, Old Style), and died at the Astapovo railway station on 20 November 1910 (7 November, Old Style). Born into the high nobility, he served in the army, was at Sevastopol during the Crimean War, and devoted himself to literature and to managing his estate. He published War and Peace (1865–1869) and Anna Karenina (1873–1877), two of the central works of the realist novel. ...