Lyoff Tolstoi

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, known in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer. Born to an aristocratic family, he became famous in his twenties for Childhood, Boyhood and Youth and for Sevastopol Sketches, based on his Crimean War service. War and Peace and Anna Karenina are often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction. He also wrote shorter works, such as A Long Exile, a story of a man imprisoned unjustly.