Leo Tolstoy

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1828-09-09 (82 years old)

Deathday

1910-11-20

Place of Birth

Yasnaya Polyana, Tula Governorate, Russian Empire [now Tula Oblast, Russia]

Leo Tolstoy

Biography

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828–1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. He received nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906 and for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902, and 1909. Born to an aristocratic Russian family in 1828, Tolstoy is best known for the novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1878), often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction. He first achieved literary acclaim in his twenties with his semi-autobiographical trilogy, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth (1852–1856), and Sevastopol Sketches ...

Acting

1948

Paris 1900

as Self (archive footage)

1979

Cinema in Russia

as Archive footage

2003

Leo Tolstoy - Larger than the others

as Self (archive footage)

1910

Le Comte Léon Tolstoï

as Self (as Comte Léon Tolstoï)

2007

Tolstoy: The Man Behind Anna

as Self (archive footage)

Production

1958

Resurrection

as Novel

1962

Posle bala

as Short Story

1956

1915

1968

1983

L'Argent

as Story

1935

2012

2009

2012

Boxing Day

as Story

1996

Why?

as Author

2012

2 Jacks

as Story

2000

Ivansxtc

as Novel

1930

Redemption

as Novel

1918

A Corpse Living

as Theatre Play

1914

Katyusha

as Story

1985

Albert

as Novel

1985

2007

Chouga

as Novel

1967

1924

1927

Love

as Novel

1956

The Kreutzer Sonata

as Short Story

1934

1987

1991

1948

1987

1916

The Weakness of Man

as Theatre Play

1993

1931

Resurrection

as Novel

1981

1915

1955

Resurrection

as Original Story

1923

1909

Resurrection

as Novel

1955

Anna

as Original Story

1958

1918

2009

Greed Eats the Soul

as Original Story

2008

A Day in the Country

as Original Story

1959

1911

1912

Anna Karenina

as Writer

1960

Resurrection

as Novel

1914

1918

1961

1985

1915

1920

1917

2016

Winter Thaw

as Novel

1958

Polikuschka

as Story

2005

Frozen Land

as Novel

1930

1938

1946

Celos

as Novel

1931

Resurrection

as Original Story

1976

Green, Bygone...

as Short Story

1926

Resurrection

as Novel

1969

The Living Corpse

as Theatre Play

1980

The Jump

as Short Story

1971

1977

1928

Kazakebi

as Novel

1975

-

1929

The Living Corpse

as Theatre Play

1953

Anna Karenina

as Writer

1919

Atonement

as Story

1960

Also People

as Novel

1997

1922

1978

1961

The Cossacks

as Novel

1952

The Living Corpse

as Theatre Play

1915

1922

Polikushka

as Story

1927

Resurrection

as Novel

2019

Resurrection

as Novel

1930

Her Boy

as Short Story

1918

Resurrezione

as Novel

1918

1911

The First Distiller

as Theatre Play

1911

The Living Corpse

as Theatre Play

1909

The Power of Darkness

as Theatre Play

1987

1958

The Three Bears

as Short Story

2023

Anna Karenina

as Writer

1983

1928

The Cossacks

as Original Film Writer

2000

The Luzhin Defence

as Original Film Writer

2025

1960

1995

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