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Lev Lvovich Tolstoy
1869–1945
A Russian writer and playwright from the famous Tolstoy family, he built a literary life of his own while living in the long shadow of his father, Leo Tolstoy. His story stretches from late imperial Russia to exile in Sweden, giving his work an unusual personal and historical backdrop.
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Mistä ihmiset elävät : ynnä muita kertomuksia
by Lev Lvovich Tolstoy
Sininen päiväkirja
by Lev Lvovich Tolstoy
About the author
Born at Yasnaya Polyana in 1869, he was the fourth child and third son of Leo Tolstoy. Contemporary reference sources describe him as a Russian writer who became a fairly well-known belletristic author and playwright in pre-Revolutionary Russia, and note that his father sometimes called him “Leo Tolstoy, Junior.”
His relationship with his father grew difficult over time, especially as family tensions deepened around Leo Tolstoy’s later years and ideas. Even so, Lev Lvovich remained part of one of literature’s most closely watched families, and that background shaped how readers saw both his work and his public image.
After leaving Russia, he settled in Sweden, where he lived for the rest of his life and died in 1945. For readers coming to him today, he is often remembered not only as Tolstoy’s son, but as a writer who tried to make an independent artistic identity under extraordinary circumstances.