3.
HE WAS BORN ON SEPTEMBER
9, 1828,AND DIED ON 20
NOVEMBER 1910
HE WAS A NOVELIST
CONSIDERED ONE OF THE
MOST IMPORTANT WRITERS
OF WORLD LITERATURE
HIS MOST FAMOUS WORKS
ARE WAR AND PEACE AND
ANNA KARENINA
Who was Leo Tolstoy?Who was Leo Tolstoy?
4.
LEO WAS THE FOURTH OF FIVE CHILDRENLEO WAS THE FOURTH OF FIVE CHILDREN
OF COUNT NIKOLAI ILYICH TOLSTOY ANDOF COUNT NIKOLAI ILYICH TOLSTOY AND
MARIYA TOLSTAYAMARIYA TOLSTAYA
5.
In 1844 he began studying law and Oriental
languages at Kazan University , but soon
abandoned his studies and returned to
Yasnaya Polyana , then spend much of his
time in Moscow
6.
Anna Karenina (1877 ) tells the parallel stories
of a woman trapped in social conventions and
a philosopher landowner Levin trying to
improve the lives of his servants ( name
derived from the name Lyova , short for Lev ,
this is how called, in private, Tolstoy his wife
Sophia Tolstaya ) .
War and Peace is a monumental work in which
hundreds of different characters described
during the Napoleonic invasion .
7.
Tolstoy died in 1910 at the age of 82 years. He
died of a neumonía in Astapovo in a railway
station , after falling when he left his home in
mid- winter. His death came after the
aristocratic lifestyle and separated from his
wife.
