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09/09/1828 Russian writer Leo Tolstoy is born

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LITERATURE: Leo Tolstoy

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Leo Tolstoy: A 1970 Biography - Remembrance by his Daughter

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"Life and Work of Leo Tolstoy"

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Why should you read Tolstoy's "War and Peace"? - Brendan Pelsue

Lev Tolstoy usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. He is best known for the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction. Tolstoy served as a second lieutenant in an artillery regiment during the Crimean War, recounted in his Sevastopol Sketches.
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