1828 - 1910
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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leo Tolstoy has received more than 12,708,795 page views. His biography is available in 172 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 170 in 2019). Leo Tolstoy is the 11th most popular writer (down from 10th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Russia (down from 4th 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, Leo Tolstoy ranks 11 out of 5,755. Before him are Fyodor Dostoevsky, J. R. R. Tolkien, Hans Christian Andersen, Voltaire, Edgar Allan Poe, and Sophocles. After him are Franz Kafka, Victor Hugo, Virgil, Aesop, Jules Verne, and Miguel de Cervantes.
1821 - 1881
HPI: 88.66
Rank: 5
1892 - 1973
HPI: 88.02
Rank: 6
1805 - 1875
HPI: 87.84
Rank: 7
1694 - 1778
HPI: 87.55
Rank: 8
1809 - 1849
HPI: 86.74
Rank: 9
497 BC - 406 BC
HPI: 86.65
Rank: 10
1828 - 1910
HPI: 86.31
Rank: 11
1883 - 1924
HPI: 86.23
Rank: 12
1802 - 1885
HPI: 86.03
Rank: 13
70 BC - 19 BC
HPI: 85.91
Rank: 14
620 BC - 564 BC
HPI: 85.15
Rank: 15
1828 - 1905
HPI: 84.74
Rank: 16
1547 - 1616
HPI: 84.65
Rank: 17
Among people born in 1828, Leo Tolstoy ranks 1. After him are Jules Verne, Henry Dunant, Henrik Ibsen, Randal Cremer, Rani of Jhansi, Hippolyte Taine, Saigō Takamori, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Charbel Makhlouf, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, and Louise of the Netherlands. Among people deceased in 1910, Leo Tolstoy ranks 1. After him are Florence Nightingale, Mark Twain, Robert Koch, Henry Dunant, William James, Edward VII, Henri Rousseau, Nadar, O. Henry, Mily Balakirev, and Marius Petipa.
1828 - 1910
HPI: 86.31
Rank: 1
1828 - 1905
HPI: 84.74
Rank: 2
1828 - 1910
HPI: 80.37
Rank: 3
1828 - 1906
HPI: 78.93
Rank: 4
1828 - 1908
HPI: 69.46
Rank: 5
1828 - 1858
HPI: 68.91
Rank: 6
1828 - 1893
HPI: 68.10
Rank: 7
1828 - 1877
HPI: 68.05
Rank: 8
1828 - 1882
HPI: 67.54
Rank: 9
1828 - 1898
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 10
1828 - 1889
HPI: 64.58
Rank: 11
1828 - 1871
HPI: 62.98
Rank: 12
1828 - 1910
HPI: 86.31
Rank: 1
1820 - 1910
HPI: 82.36
Rank: 2
1835 - 1910
HPI: 80.98
Rank: 3
1843 - 1910
HPI: 80.51
Rank: 4
1828 - 1910
HPI: 80.37
Rank: 5
1842 - 1910
HPI: 75.72
Rank: 6
1841 - 1910
HPI: 74.69
Rank: 7
1844 - 1910
HPI: 73.59
Rank: 8
1820 - 1910
HPI: 70.94
Rank: 9
1862 - 1910
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 10
1837 - 1910
HPI: 68.29
Rank: 11
1818 - 1910
HPI: 67.58
Rank: 12
Among people born in Russia, Leo Tolstoy ranks 5 out of 3,262. Before him are Immanuel Kant (1724), Vladimir Lenin (1870), Vladimir Putin (1952), and Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821). After him are Mikhail Gorbachev (1931), Yuri Gagarin (1934), Dmitri Mendeleev (1834), Peter the Great (1672), Boris Yeltsin (1931), Anton Chekhov (1860), and Nikita Khrushchev (1894).
1724 - 1804
HPI: 90.76
Rank: 1
1870 - 1924
HPI: 89.94
Rank: 2
1952 - Present
HPI: 88.82
Rank: 3
1821 - 1881
HPI: 88.66
Rank: 4
1828 - 1910
HPI: 86.31
Rank: 5
1931 - 2022
HPI: 86.13
Rank: 6
1934 - 1968
HPI: 85.94
Rank: 7
1834 - 1907
HPI: 85.55
Rank: 8
1672 - 1725
HPI: 83.99
Rank: 9
1931 - 2007
HPI: 83.89
Rank: 10
1860 - 1904
HPI: 83.77
Rank: 11
1894 - 1971
HPI: 83.74
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), Isaac Asimov (1920), Ayn Rand (1905), Maxim Gorky (1868), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918), Boris Pasternak (1890), Vladimir Nabokov (1899), E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776), and Ivan Turgenev (1818).
1821 - 1881
HPI: 88.66
Rank: 1
1828 - 1910
HPI: 86.31
Rank: 2
1860 - 1904
HPI: 83.77
Rank: 3
1799 - 1837
HPI: 81.46
Rank: 4
1920 - 1992
HPI: 78.68
Rank: 5
1905 - 1982
HPI: 78.45
Rank: 6
1868 - 1936
HPI: 77.55
Rank: 7
1918 - 2008
HPI: 76.67
Rank: 8
1890 - 1960
HPI: 76.24
Rank: 9
1899 - 1977
HPI: 76.00
Rank: 10
1776 - 1822
HPI: 75.79
Rank: 11
1818 - 1883
HPI: 73.47
Rank: 12