A Russian Proprietor, and Other Stories

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, known in the English-speaking world as Leo Tolstoy, was a towering figure in Russian literature and one of the greatest authors of all time. Born into an aristocratic family on September 9, 1828, at Yasnaya Polyana, his family's estate in the Tula Province of Russia, Tolstoy forged a literary career that spanned over half a century, until his death on November 20, 1...