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| | Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Leo Tolstoy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | (Russian: Лев Никола́евич Толсто́й; commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy) (September 9, 1828 – November 20, 1910; August 28, 1828 – November 7, 1910, O.S.) was a Russian novelist, social reformer, pacifist, Christian anarchist, vegetarian, moral thinker and an influential member of the Tolstoy family. |
 | | Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists, particularly noted for his masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina; in their scope, breadth and realistic depiction of Russian life, the two books stand at the peak of realistic fiction. |
 | | Portrait of Leo Tolstoy (1887) by Ilya Yefimovich Repin |
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