Leo Tolstoy
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Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, 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.
Tolstoy in 1908
Tolstoy at age 20, c. 1848
Tolstoy's wife Sophia and their daughter Alexandra
Portrait of Leo Tolstoy by Ivan Kramskoi, 1873
Anna Karenina
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Anna Karenina is a novel, first published in book form in 1878, by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. Often considered to be among the greatest works of world literature, Tolstoy himself called it his fi
Leo Tolstoy
…Childhood, Boyhood and Youth (1852–1856), and with Sevastopol Sketches (1855), based on his experiences in the Crimean War. War and Peace (1869), Anna Karenina (1878), and Resurrection (1899), which is based on his "youthful sins", are often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction and three of the greatest novels…
Cover page of the first volume of Anna Karenina, Moscow, 1878
Anna Karenina family tree
Greta Garbo in a publicity still for Anna Karenina, MGM's influential 1935 production of Tolstoy's novel.
Portrait of a Young Woman (or so called "Anna Karenina") by Aleksei Mikhailovich Kolesov, 1885, National Museum in Warsaw