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| Lev Tolstoy .. Caricature by Zakir Sagitov - Russia |
Lev Tolstoy was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time, was 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.