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Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910)
Tolstoy, Count Lyof (or Lev, English Leo) Alekséevich (tol’stoi). The great Russian novelist; born on the family estate of Yasnaya Polyana in the government of Tula, Russia, Sept. 9, 1828; died on Nov. 19, 1910. He served in the Crimean War, and afterward traveled extensively. In 1861 he took up permanent residence on his country estate. Among his earliest works are: ‘Detsvo’ (Childhood), ‘Otrchestvo’ (Boyhood), and ‘Iunost’ (Youth); also ‘Cossacks,’ ‘Sevastopol,’ and a number of military sketches. ‘War and Peace’ was published in 1865–68; ‘Anna Karénina’ in 1875–78. His peculiar doctrines are promulgated in ‘My Confession,’ ‘In What my Faith Consists,’ etc. His later works are: ‘The Kreutzer Sonata’ (1888); ‘Death of Ivan Ilyitch’ (1884–86); ‘Master and Man’ (1895); ‘On Art’; ‘Resurrection.’ (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).