Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a Russian author born into an aristocratic family at Yasnaya Polyana, who gained early acclaim with his semi-autobiographical trilogy Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth (1852-1856) and Sevastopol Sketches from his Crimean War experiences. He wrote his masterpieces War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877), later becoming a moral philosopher, pacifist, and social reformer who founded schools for peasants and advocated non-violence. In 1910, conflicted by his principles, he left home and died of pneumonia at Astapovo station.[1][2][3][4]

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