1828 - 1910
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (; Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой, 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 and the fact that he never won is a major controversy.Born to an aristocratic Russian family in 1828, Tolstoy's notable works include the novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1878), often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction. He first achieved literary acclaim in his twenties with his semi-autobiographical trilogy, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth (1852–1856), and Sevastopol Sketches (1855), based upon his experiences in the Crimean War. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leo Tolstoy has received more than 9,563,789 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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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.
1749 - 1832
HPI: 91.73
Rank: 4
1821 - 1881
HPI: 91.42
Rank: 5
1892 - 1973
HPI: 91.11
Rank: 6
1805 - 1875
HPI: 90.93
Rank: 7
1694 - 1778
HPI: 90.89
Rank: 8
1883 - 1924
HPI: 90.26
Rank: 9
1828 - 1910
HPI: 90.13
Rank: 10
1802 - 1885
HPI: 89.96
Rank: 11
1809 - 1849
HPI: 89.63
Rank: 12
1828 - 1905
HPI: 88.85
Rank: 13
1622 - 1673
HPI: 88.77
Rank: 14
1799 - 1850
HPI: 88.70
Rank: 15
1913 - 1960
HPI: 88.59
Rank: 16
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.
1828 - 1910
HPI: 90.13
Rank: 1
1828 - 1905
HPI: 88.85
Rank: 2
1828 - 1906
HPI: 86.47
Rank: 3
1828 - 1910
HPI: 84.61
Rank: 4
1828 - 1858
HPI: 76.64
Rank: 5
1828 - 1877
HPI: 76.04
Rank: 6
1828 - 1893
HPI: 75.84
Rank: 7
1828 - 1882
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 8
1828 - 1898
HPI: 74.97
Rank: 9
1828 - 1908
HPI: 74.87
Rank: 10
1828 - 1889
HPI: 72.80
Rank: 11
1828 - 1896
HPI: 71.68
Rank: 12
1828 - 1910
HPI: 90.13
Rank: 1
1835 - 1910
HPI: 87.04
Rank: 2
1820 - 1910
HPI: 85.64
Rank: 3
1828 - 1910
HPI: 84.61
Rank: 4
1843 - 1910
HPI: 84.13
Rank: 5
1842 - 1910
HPI: 80.83
Rank: 6
1841 - 1910
HPI: 80.49
Rank: 7
1844 - 1910
HPI: 80.00
Rank: 8
1832 - 1910
HPI: 78.67
Rank: 9
1820 - 1910
HPI: 77.89
Rank: 10
1862 - 1910
HPI: 77.19
Rank: 11
1837 - 1910
HPI: 76.64
Rank: 12
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).
1724 - 1804
HPI: 93.13
Rank: 1
1870 - 1924
HPI: 92.52
Rank: 2
1821 - 1881
HPI: 91.42
Rank: 3
1828 - 1910
HPI: 90.13
Rank: 4
1931 - Present
HPI: 89.08
Rank: 5
1934 - 1968
HPI: 88.58
Rank: 6
1840 - 1893
HPI: 88.38
Rank: 7
1834 - 1907
HPI: 88.11
Rank: 8
1860 - 1904
HPI: 88.01
Rank: 9
1672 - 1725
HPI: 87.89
Rank: 10
1799 - 1837
HPI: 87.86
Rank: 11
1952 - Present
HPI: 87.64
Rank: 12
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).
1821 - 1881
HPI: 91.42
Rank: 1
1828 - 1910
HPI: 90.13
Rank: 2
1860 - 1904
HPI: 88.01
Rank: 3
1799 - 1837
HPI: 87.86
Rank: 4
1868 - 1936
HPI: 84.53
Rank: 5
1905 - 1982
HPI: 84.20
Rank: 6
1920 - 1992
HPI: 83.85
Rank: 7
1818 - 1883
HPI: 82.56
Rank: 8
1918 - 2008
HPI: 82.30
Rank: 9
1899 - 1977
HPI: 82.16
Rank: 10
1776 - 1822
HPI: 81.16
Rank: 11
1890 - 1960
HPI: 81.07
Rank: 12