Leo Tolstoy
9 September 1828 – 20 November 1910
Russian novelist and moral philosopher, author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, often ranked among the greatest writers of all time.
Lived at the same time
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Served as an artillery officer in the siege of Sevastopol
1854 – 1855
His Sevastopol Sketches drew on this Crimean War service.
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Married Sophia Behrs
September 1862
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Published Anna Karenina in book form
1878
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Death
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