Name | Birthday | Death Date | Nationality | father | Mother | Profession | Famous For |
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Leo Tolstoy | 9 September 1828 | 20 November 1910 | Russian | Nikolai Ilyich Tolstoy | Mariya Tolstaya | Author, Playwright, Essayist, Novelist, Philosopher | Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. He is best-known for the novels War and Peace(1869) and Anna Karenina(1877), his fictions includes dozens of short stories and several novellas such as The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Family Happiness and Hadji Murad. He wrote plays and numerous philosophical essays. |
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