WRITER

Leo Tolstoy

1828 - 1910

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Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (; Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой, tr. Lev Nikoláyevich Tolstóy, IPA: [ˈlʲef nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ tɐlˈstoj] (listen); 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 who is regarded as one of the greatest 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 8,361,401 page views. His biography is available in 170 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 163 in 2019). Leo Tolstoy is the 10th most popular writer (up from 11th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Russia 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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  • 170

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Leo Tolstoy ranks 10 out of 5,794. Before him are Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Fyodor Dostoevsky, J. R. R. Tolkien, Hans Christian Andersen, Voltaire, and Franz Kafka. After him are Victor Hugo, Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne, Molière, Honoré de Balzac, and Albert Camus.

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Contemporaries

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

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Leo Tolstoy ranks 4 out of 2,688. Before him are Immanuel Kant (1724), Vladimir Lenin (1870), and Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821). After him are Mikhail Gorbachev (1931), Yuri Gagarin (1934), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840), Dmitri Mendeleev (1834), Anton Chekhov (1860), Peter the Great (1672), Alexander Pushkin (1799), and Vladimir Putin (1952).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

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

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