Tolstoy
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, commonly known as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian novelist and moral philosopher whose works are among the most acclaimed in world literature. He was born in 1828 at Yasnaya Polyana, in the Tula Governorate, into an aristocratic family. After military education, he served in the army during the Caucasus campaigns and the Crimean War, experiences that shaped his early fiction.
His best-known novels include War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877), which are celebrated for their
Toward the end of the 1870s, Tolstoy experienced a profound spiritual awakening that led him to adopt
Tolstoy married Sophia Behrs in 1862, and they had 13 children. He spent much of his life