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Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy

1817 - 1875

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Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (Russian: Граф Алексе́й Константи́нович Толсто́й; September 5 [O.S. August 24] 1817 – October 10 [O.S. September 28] 1875), often referred to as A. K. Tolstoy, was a Russian poet, novelist, and playwright. He is considered to be the most important nineteenth-century Russian historical dramatist, primarily on account of the strength of his dramatic trilogy The Death of Ivan the Terrible (1866), Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich (1868), and Tsar Boris (1870). He also gained fame for his satirical works, published under his own name (History of the Russian State from Gostomysl to Timashev, The Dream of Councillor Popov) and under the collaborational pen name of Kozma Prutkov. His fictional works include the novella The Family of the Vourdalak, The Vampire (1841), and the historical novel Prince Serebrenni (1862). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy is the 1,082nd most popular writer (up from 1,204th in 2019), the 364th most popular biography from Russia (up from 428th in 2019) and the 41st most popular Russian Writer.

Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy is most famous for his novel War and Peace.

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Among writers, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy ranks 1,082 out of 7,302. Before him are Michel Tournier, Tavo Burat, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Edith Wharton, Pierre Louÿs, and Ibn Sirin. After him are Dubravka Ugrešić, Yakub Kolas, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Karl-Maria Kertbeny, Harriet Jacobs, and Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1817, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy ranks 15. Before him are Charles-François Daubigny, Charles Adolphe Wurtz, Carl Nägeli, Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, Niels Gade, and Joseph Dalton Hooker. After him are Princess Clémentine of Orléans, Theodor Storm, Hermann Lotze, Pierre Larousse, Austen Henry Layard, and Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg. Among people deceased in 1875, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy ranks 16. Before him are Charles Lyell, Isaac Singer, Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, Charles Wheatstone, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, and 12th Dalai Lama. After him are Moses Hess, Heinrich Schwabe, Amalia of Oldenburg, Pierre Larousse, Guillaume Henri Dufour, and Duchenne de Boulogne.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy ranks 364 out of 3,761. Before him are Alexander Litvinenko (1962), Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia (1876), Lila Kedrova (1918), Anton Arensky (1861), Patriarch Nikon of Moscow (1605), and Pavel Nakhimov (1802). After him are Dmitri Ivanovsky (1864), Jani Beg (1300), Nikolai Patrushev (1951), Vera Menchik (1906), Onfim (1250), and Svetlana Savitskaya (1948).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy ranks 41. Before him are Henri Troyat (1911), Lyudmila Ulitskaya (1943), Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933), Fyodor Tyutchev (1803), Edith Södergran (1892), and Alexander Litvinenko (1962). After him are Alexander Ostrovsky (1823), Nikolai Leskov (1831), Leonid Andreyev (1871), Andrei Bely (1880), Velimir Khlebnikov (1885), and Sophia Tolstaya (1844).

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