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Leo Tolstoy
AuthorBooks · Second hand1828-1910
Nineteenth-century Russian novelist and thinker, author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, regarded as one of the greatest writers of all time.
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About Leo Tolstoy
Birth
1828
Death
1910
First book
1852
Years writing
174
Nineteenth-century Russian novelist and thinker, author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, regarded as one of the greatest writers of all time.
He belonged to one of the oldest Russian aristocratic families, the Counts Tolstoy.
He fought in the Crimean War, an experience that inspired his Sevastopol Sketches.
In his later years he lived as a poor vegetarian peasant and preached non-violence.
He had a decisive influence on Mahatma Gandhi and the non-violent resistance movement.
He died at a provincial railway station at 82 after fleeing his home.
