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Leo Tolstoy

1828 - 1910

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Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (; Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой, IPA: [ˈlʲef nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ tɐlˈstoj] ; 9 September [O.S. 28 August] 1828 – 20 November [O.S. 7 November] 1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors of all time. Born to an aristocratic family, Tolstoy achieved acclaim in his twenties with his semi-autobiographical trilogy, Childhood, Boyhood and Youth (1852–1856), and with Sevastopol Sketches (1855), based on his experiences in the Crimean War. His War and Peace (1869), Anna Karenina (1878), and Resurrection (1899), which is based on his youthful sins, are often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction and three of the greatest novels ever written. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leo Tolstoy is the 9th most popular writer (up from 11th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Russia (down from 4th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Russian Writer.

Leo Tolstoy is most famous for his epic novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Leo Tolstoy ranks 9 out of 7,302. Before him are William Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, J. R. R. Tolkien, Edgar Allan Poe, and Hans Christian Andersen. After him are Franz Kafka, Victor Hugo, Voltaire, James Joyce, Sophocles, and Jules Verne.

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Among people born in 1828, Leo Tolstoy ranks 1. After him are Jules Verne, Henrik Ibsen, Henry Dunant, Rani of Jhansi, Randal Cremer, Saigō Takamori, Charbel Makhlouf, Hippolyte Taine, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, and Albert Marth. Among people deceased in 1910, Leo Tolstoy ranks 1. After him are Edward VII, Mark Twain, Robert Koch, Henry Dunant, Florence Nightingale, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, William James, Henri Rousseau, Nadar, O. Henry, and Giovanni Schiaparelli.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Leo Tolstoy ranks 5 out of 3,761. Before him are Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821), Immanuel Kant (1724), Vladimir Lenin (1870), and Vladimir Putin (1952). After him are Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840), Nicholas II of Russia (1868), Mikhail Gorbachev (1931), Kim Jong-il (1941), Igor Stravinsky (1882), Yuri Gagarin (1934), and Dmitri Mendeleev (1834).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Leo Tolstoy ranks 2. Before him are Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821). After him are Anton Chekhov (1860), Alexander Pushkin (1799), Ayn Rand (1905), Maxim Gorky (1868), Isaac Asimov (1920), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918), Boris Pasternak (1890), E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776), Vladimir Nabokov (1899), and Ivan Turgenev (1818).

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