Leo Tolstoy
Russian · b. 1828
Leo Tolstoy wrote the two summits of realist fiction — War and Peace and Anna Karenina — from an aristocratic estate he increasingly despised, then renounced fiction, property, and meat to preach radical Christian simplicity. Gandhi corresponded with him; governments feared him; and he died fleeing home at 82 in a rural train station, the world's most famous man.
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