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Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy
  • Name: Leo Tolstoy
  • Birthday: 1828-09-09
  • Also known as: Lev Tolstoy, LéonTolstoï,León Tolsoi,Count Leo Tolstoi,Leo N. Tolstoi,Leone Tolstoi,Leon Tolstoi,Leo Tolstoi ,León Tolstoi ,Lyof N. Tolstoi ,Tolstoj ,Count Leo Tolstoy ,L.N. Tolstoy ,Comte Léon Tolstoï ,Léon Tolstoï,Tolstoï ,Liev Tolstói ,Lev Tolsztoj,Lew Nikolajewitsch Tolstoi,Lew Tolstoj,Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy,Лев Николаевич Толстой
  • Place of birth: Yasnaya Polyana, Tula Governorate, Russian Empire [now Tula Oblast, Russia]
  • Popularity: 4.112
Biography: Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828–1910), 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. Born to an aristocratic Russian family in 1828, Tolstoy is best known for 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... Read More

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Title Release date
Tolstoy: The Man Behind Anna   as  Self (archive footage) 2007-04-24
Leo Tolstoy - Larger than the others   as  Self (archive footage) 2003-01-03
Cinema in Russia   as  Archive footage 1979-08-27
Paris Nineteen Hundred   as  Self (archive footage) 1948-02-25
Le Comte Léon Tolstoï   as  Self (as Comte Léon Tolstoï) 1910-01-22