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Russian author (1828–1910)

Also known as: Lew Nikolajewitsch Tolstoi, Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoi, Lev Nikolaevič Tolstoj, Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoĭ, Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

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Known works

Анна Каренина (1997)
War and Peace (1970)
Смерть Ивана Ильича (1927)
An anthology of Tolstoy's spiritual economics
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