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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Tolstoy, Leo

Tolstoy, Leo
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Life And Career Of Leo Tolstoy.

Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy was born on August 28, 1828, on his
father's estate of estate of Yasnaya Polyana, in the Province of Tula,
Russia. The Tolstoys were a family of the old Russian nobility who served
the Czars and ruled the Empire. He was a count who was raised in a large
family in the best tradition of the nobility. He was orphaned by the time he
was nine, and his education was taken over by an aunt. Tolstoy entered the
University of Kazan in 1844, where he studied oriental languages and later
law, but he ...

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