Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, usually known in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors of all time. Born to an aristocratic family, he achieved acclaim in his twenties with the semi-autobiographical trilogy Childhood, Boyhood and Youth (1852-1856) and went on to write War and Peace (1869), Anna Karenina (1878) and Resurrection (1899), often cited among the greatest novels ever written. In the 1870s he underwent a profound moral and spiritual crisis that turned him into a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist, and his writing on nonviolent resistance influenced later figures including Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Did Leo Tolstoy ever win the Nobel Prize?
He was nominated repeatedly for both the literature and peace prizes but never won either.
No. Tolstoy was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906, and for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902 and 1909, but he was never awarded a Nobel Prize. That omission remains a major Nobel Prize controversy.
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9 September [O.S. 28 August] 1828 - 20 November [O.S. 7 November] 1910
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Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, usually known in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors of all time.
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Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (; Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой, IPA: [ˈlʲef nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ tɐlˈstoj] ; 9 September [O.S. 28 August] 1828 - 20 November [O.S.
Award: Order of Saint Anna, 4th class
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (; Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой, IPA: [ˈlʲef nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ tɐlˈstoj] ; 9 September [O.S. 28 August] 1828-20 November [O.S. 7 November] 1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors of all time.
Award: Medal For defence of Sebastopol
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (; Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой, IPA: [ˈlʲef nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ tɐlˈstoj] ; 9 September [O.S. 28 August] 1828-20 November [O.S. 7 November] 1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors of all time.
Award: Medal In memory of Crimean War
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (; Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой, IPA: [ˈlʲef nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ tɐlˈstoj] ; 9 September [O.S. 28 August] 1828-20 November [O.S. 7 November] 1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors of all time.
Award: Medal In memory of 50th anniversary of defence of Sevastopol
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (; Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой, IPA: [ˈlʲef nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ tɐlˈstoj] ; 9 September [O.S. 28 August] 1828-20 November [O.S. 7 November] 1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors of all time.
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Anna Karenina...is a novel, first published in book form in 1878, by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy.
War and Peace (Wikipedia)
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War and Peace...is an epic novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy.
Confession (Leo Tolstoy) (Wikipedia)
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Author: Leo Tolstoy
The Prisoner of the Caucasus (story) (Wikipedia)
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The Prisoner of the Caucasus (or A Prisoner in the Caucasus; Russian: Кавказский пленник, romanized: Kavkazsky plennik) is an 1872 novella written by Leo Tolstoy for his ABC book
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