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Lev Lvovich Tolstoy
1869–1945
A writer, playwright, and sculptor from the famous Tolstoy family, he built a creative life of his own while living in the long shadow of Yasnaya Polyana. His story carries both literary inheritance and a personal, often independent artistic voice.
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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, Lev Lvovich Tolstoy was the fourth child and third son of Leo Tolstoy and Sophia Tolstaya. He became known in his own right as a Russian writer and playwright, and he also worked as a sculptor.
Before the Russian Revolution, he was regarded as a respected belletristic author. Accounts of his life often note the complicated mix of closeness, rivalry, and difference that shaped his relationship with his father, whose enormous fame inevitably followed him.
Lev Lvovich spent his later years outside Russia and died in Helsingborg, Sweden, in 1945. Remembered today as more than simply “Tolstoy’s son,” he offers readers a fascinating view of literary life inside one of the world’s most famous families.