Leo Tolstoy
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- Born:
- September 9, 1828 Yasnaya Polyana Russia
- Died:
- November 20, 1910 (aged 82) Russia
- Notable Works:
- “An Examination of Dogmatic Theology” “Anna Karenina” “Boyhood” “Childhood” “Father Sergius” “Hadji-Murad” “Kholstomer” “My Confession” “Resurrection” “Sevastopol in August” “Sevastopol in December” “Sevastopol in May” “The Cossacks” “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” “The Kingdom of God Is Within You” “The Kreutzer Sonata” “The Living Corpse” “The Power of Darkness” “The Raid” “Three Deaths” “Union and Translation of the Four Gospels” “War and Peace” “What I Believe” “What Is Art?” “Yasnaya Polyana” “Youth”
- Movement / Style:
- realism
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Leo Tolstoy, Tolstoy also spelled Tolstoi, Russian in full Lev Nikolayevich, Graf (count) Tolstoy, (born August 28 [September 9, New Style], 1828, Yasnaya Polyana, Tula province, Russian Empire—died November 7 [November 20], 1910, Astapovo, Ryazan province), Russian author, a master of realistic fiction and one of the world’s greatest novelists. Tolstoy is best known for his two longest works, War and Peace (1865–69) and Anna Karenina (1875–77), which are commonly regarded as among the finest novels ever written. War and Peace in particular seems virtually to define this form for many readers and critics. Among Tolstoy’s shorter works, The Death ...(100 of 4482 words)