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Sophia Tolstaya

1844 - 1919

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Countess Sophia Andreyevna Tolstaya (Russian: Со́фья Андре́евна Толста́я, née Behrs (Берс); 3 September [O.S. 22 August] 1844 – 4 November 1919), sometimes anglicised as Sofia Tolstoy, Sophia Tolstoy and Sonya Tolstoy, was a Russian diarist, and the wife of writer Count Leo Tolstoy. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sophia Tolstaya is the 1,176th most popular writer (up from 1,186th in 2019), the 401st most popular biography from Russia (up from 423rd in 2019) and the 47th most popular Russian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sophia Tolstaya ranks 1,176 out of 7,302. Before her are Juliusz Słowacki, Ibn Khallikan, Jean de Joinville, Sadriddin Ayni, Bhāsa, and Cosmas of Prague. After her are Khaled Hosseini, Michel Butor, Cai Yan, Sami Frashëri, Anne Rice, and Lin Yutang.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, Sophia Tolstaya ranks 30. Before her are Charles-Marie Widor, Abdur Rahman Khan, Julius Wellhausen, Adolf Engler, Charles-Émile Reynaud, and Friedrich Miescher. After her are Henry J. Heinz, Karl Lueger, George W. De Long, Princess Maria Immacolata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Saitō Hajime, and Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Alençon. Among people deceased in 1919, Sophia Tolstaya ranks 30. Before her are Loránd Eötvös, Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Kurt Eisner, Edward Charles Pickering, Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia, and Leonid Andreyev. After her are Habibullah Khan, Franz Mehring, Henry J. Heinz, Prince John of the United Kingdom, Henry Gantt, and Peter Altenberg.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Sophia Tolstaya ranks 401 out of 3,761. Before her are Mengu-Timur (1235), Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov (1943), Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (1822), Anatoly Sobchak (1937), Vsevolod Pudovkin (1893), and Catherine Pavlovna of Russia (1788). After her are Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1831), Lydia Litvyak (1921), Vladimir Kryuchkov (1924), Mikhail Chigorin (1850), Basil Fool for Christ (1468), and Viktor Kulikov (1921).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Sophia Tolstaya ranks 47. Before her are Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817), Alexander Ostrovsky (1823), Nikolai Leskov (1831), Leonid Andreyev (1871), Andrei Bely (1880), and Velimir Khlebnikov (1885). After her are Alexander Griboyedov (1795), Gavrila Derzhavin (1743), Rasul Gamzatov (1923), Daniil Kharms (1905), Nathalie Sarraute (1900), and Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899).

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