Leo Tolstoy Death Cause and Date

Leo Tolstoy's Death

Born (Birthday) August 28, 1828

Death Date November 20, 1910

Age of Death 82 years

Cause of Death Pneumonia

Profession Novelist

The novelist Leo Tolstoy died at the age of 82. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Nineteenth-century Russian author whose most famous works of realism are his epic novels, War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). His other works include autobiographical novels, novellas, essays, and plays.

He was born into Russian nobility as the child of Count Nikolai Ilyich Tolstoy and Countess Mariya Tolstaya. He had four siblings. Tolstoy’s marriage to Sophia Andreevna Behrs started blissfully, however his radical beliefs eventually strained the relationship. He had a total of 14 children.

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If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one’s reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.

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An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person’s main task in life – becoming a better person.

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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

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Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

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The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.

Leo Tolstoy Death Cause and Date