This story is the brightest, the most perfect and complicated work of Leo Tolstoy,' - Vladimir Nabokov. Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, also known as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian author was born into a wealthy aristocratic family on August 28, 1828. He primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. Tolstoy is also known for his moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also be