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- NAME: Leo Tolstoy
- OCCUPATION: Author
- BIRTH DATE: September 09, 1828
- DEATH DATE: November 20, 1910
- EDUCATION: University of Kazan
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Tula Province (Yasnaya Polyana), Russia
- PLACE OF DEATH: Astapovo, Russia
- Full Name: Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
- AKA: Leo Tolstoy
- AKA: Lev Tolstoy
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Russian author Leo Tolstoy wrote the acclaimed novels War and Peace, Anna Karenina and The Death of Ivan Ilyich, and still ranks among the world's top writers.
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Tolstoy was survived by his wife and their brood of 10 children. (The couple had spawned 13 children in all, but only 10 had survived past infancy.)
To this day, Tolstoy's novels are considered among the finest achievements of literary work. War and Peace is, in fact, frequently cited as the greatest novel ever written. In contemporary academia,
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Tolstoy is still widely acknowledged as having possessed a gift for describing characters' unconscious motives. He is also championed for his finesse in underscoring the role of people's everyday actions in defining their character and purpose.
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