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Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой; 9 September 1828 – 20 November 1910) was a Russian count, army officer, and author whose realist novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877–78) portray the psychological depths of human experience amid historical upheavals like the Napoleonic Wars and domestic social tensions in imperial Russia.
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