Leo Tolstoy [Lev Nikolayevich], Russian author, dies of pneumonia at the age of 82 in 1910.
Leo Tolstoy (Lev Nikolayevich, Graf (count) Tolstoy, —died on November 7 [November 20], 1910, Astapovo, Ryazan province), was a renowned Russian author, a master of realistic fiction, and one of the world's greatest novelists.
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