Novelist Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy

Living place: Russia

Birthday: 28-8-1828

Global rank: #15380

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Who is Novelist Leo Tolstoy?
Nineteenth-century Russian author whose most famous works of realism are his epic novels, War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). His other works include autobiographical novels, novels, essays, and plays.
His famous novel, Anna Karenina, is considered the pinnacle of realist fiction.

Young / Before famous

He set out to study law at Kazan University, but was a poor student. After leaving his studies behind and amassing significant gambling debts, he followed his brother into the army.

Family life info

He was born into the Russian nobility, and with four siblings, was the son of Count Nikolai Ilyich Tolstoy and Countess Mariya Tolstaya. Tolstoy's marriage to Sophia Andreevna Behrs began happily, however his underlying beliefs eventually strained the relationship. He had a total of 14 children.

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Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky are considered the two greatest Russian novelists.

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When was Novelist Leo Tolstoy born?
Leo Tolstoy was born in 28-8-1828, death year is , at the age of 196.
Where is Novelist Leo Tolstoy's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Leo Tolstoy was born in Russia. Là Novelist, whose Zodiac is Virgo, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Rat. Leo Tolstoy's global rank is 15380 and whose rank is 29 in list of famous Novelist.
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Birthday Leo Tolstoy (28-8) in history

  • Day 28-8 year 1609: British explorer Henry Hudson discovered Delaware Bay, USA.
  • Day 28-8 year 1850: Richard Wagner's opera, Lohengrin , premiered at Weimar, Germany.
  • Day 28-8 year 1922: The first commercial to be broadcast on radio aired on station WEAF in New York City. The ten minute advertisement for the Queensboro Realty Company cost $100.
  • Day 28-8 year 1955: Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, was abducted and by white men after he supposedly whistled at a white woman in Mississippi. The case was reopened in 2005.
  • Day 28-8 year 1963: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial to civil rights demonstrators.
  • Day 28-8 year 1968: Anti-Vietnam war protesters and police clashed in the streets of Chicago while the Democratic National Convention nominated Hubert H. Humphrey for president.
  • Day 28-8 year 1981: The Centers for Disease Control announced a medical task force had been formed to look into the incidence of Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis in homosexual men. AIDS was later found to be the cause.
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