Tolstoy, Leo

Cultural  

1. A nineteenth-century Russian author, thought to be among the greatest novelists, whose books paint a vivid portrait of Russian life and history. His best-known works are War and Peace and Anna Karenina.

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Example Sentences

Tolstoy, Leo, War and Peace, 2, 37, 40, 48; and P. Bourget, 37, 38; Anna Karenina, 41, 48; and H. G. Wells, 316; mentioned, 44, 45, 51, 52, 63.

From Project Gutenberg

Tolstoy, Leo, v, 237; Anna Karenina, xiv, 351; daughter of, ii, 192; on religious persecution, ix, 181; Socrates and, viii, 22; story of, ii, p xi; his story of a peasant, xi, 90; Wanamaker and, viii, 205; wife of, v, 133.

From Project Gutenberg