Leo Tolstoy

Russian writer

1828 (Yasnaya Polyana, Tula Governorate) – 1910 (Astapovo station, Ryazan Governorate)
Count. Took part in the defence of Sevastopol. One of the world's best-known Russian novelists. Corresponding Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences (1873) and Honorary Academician in the Belles-Lettres category (1900).