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Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy, or Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828–1910), was a Russian writer widely regarded as among the greatest of novelists. His masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina represent in their scope, breadth and vivid depiction of 19th-century Russian life and attitudes, the peak of r…

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Leo Tolstoy, or Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828–1910), was a Russian writer widely regarded as among the greatest of novelists. His masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina represent in their scope, breadth and vivid depiction of 19th-century Russian life and attitudes, the peak of realist fiction.