Birthday
1828/09/09
Day of death
1910/11/20 (82 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Yasnaya Polyana, Tula Governorate, Russian Empire [now Tula Oblast, Russia]
Also know as
Lev Tolstoy, LéonTolstoï, León Tolsoi, Count Leo Tolstoi, Leo N. Tolstoi, Leone Tolstoi, Leon Tolstoi, Leo Tolstoi , León Tolstoi , Lyof N. Tolstoi , Tolstoj , Count Leo Tolstoy , L.N. Tolstoy , Comte Léon Tolstoï , Léon Tolstoï, Tolstoï , Liev Tolstói , Lev Tolsztoj, Lew Nikolajewitsch Tolstoi, Lew Tolstoj, Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Лев Николаевич Толстой, Lew Nikolajewitsch Graf Tolstoi, Lew Tolstoi, לב טולסטוי, レフ・トルストイ, Λέων Τολστόη
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828–1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. He received nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906 and for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902, and 1909. Born to an aristocratic Russian family in 1828, Tolstoy is best known for the novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1878), often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction. He first...Read more