WRITER

Leo Tolstoy

1828 - 1910

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Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (; Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой, IPA: [ˈlʲef nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ tɐlˈstoj] ; 9 September [O.S. 28 August] 1828 – 20 November [O.S. 7 November] 1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leo Tolstoy has received more than 13,880,123 page views. His biography is available in 179 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 172 in 2019). Leo Tolstoy is the 11th most popular writer, the 4th most popular biography from Russia (up from 5th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Russian Writer.

Leo Tolstoy is most famous for his epic novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Leo Tolstoy ranks 11 out of 7,302Before him are Edgar Allan Poe, Fyodor Dostoevsky, J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord Byron, Voltaire, and Hans Christian Andersen. After him are Victor Hugo, Sophocles, Franz Kafka, Miguel de Cervantes, Jules Verne, and Virgil.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1828, Leo Tolstoy ranks 1After him are Jules Verne, Henry Dunant, Henrik Ibsen, Saigō Takamori, Rani of Jhansi, Hippolyte Taine, Charbel Makhlouf, Randal Cremer, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, and Ferdinand Cohn. Among people deceased in 1910, Leo Tolstoy ranks 1After him are Henry Dunant, Mark Twain, Florence Nightingale, Robert Koch, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, William James, Henri Rousseau, Edward VII, Nadar, Chulalongkorn, and O. Henry.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Leo Tolstoy ranks 4 out of 3,761Before him are Immanuel Kant (1724), Vladimir Lenin (1870), and Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821). After him are Vladimir Putin (1952), Yuri Gagarin (1934), Mikhail Gorbachev (1931), Dmitri Mendeleev (1834), Anton Chekhov (1860), Peter the Great (1672), Nikita Khrushchev (1894), and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840).

Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Leo Tolstoy ranks 2Before him are Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821). After him are Anton Chekhov (1860), Alexander Pushkin (1799), Ayn Rand (1905), Maxim Gorky (1868), Isaac Asimov (1920), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918), E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776), Vladimir Nabokov (1899), Boris Pasternak (1890), and Ivan Turgenev (1818).