Personal Info
- Known ForWriting
- GenderMale
- Birthday1828-09-09
- Day of Death1910-11-20 (82 years)
- Place of BirthYasnaya Polyana, Tula Governorate, Russian Empire [now Tula Oblast, Russia]
- Also Known AsLev TolstoyLeón TolsoiCount Leo TolstoiLeo N. TolstoiLeone TolstoiLeon TolstoiLeón Tolstoi Lyof N. Tolstoi Tolstoj Count Leo Tolstoy L.N. Tolstoy Comte Léon Tolstoï Léon TolstoïTolstoï Liev Tolstói Lev TolsztojLew Nikolajewitsch TolstoiLew TolstojCount Lev Nikolayevich TolstoyЛев Николаевич ТолстойLew Nikolajewitsch Graf TolstoiLew Tolstoiלב טולסטויレフ・トルストイΛέων ΤολστόηLev Nikolaïevitch TolstoïLev Tolstoï
Leo Tolstoy
Biography
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828–1910), 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 received nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906 and for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902, and 1909. Born to an aristocratic Russian family in 1828, Tolstoy is best known for the...Read More