Claim: The Death of Ivan Ilyich is a Russian fiction written by Leo Tolstoy, a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time, and was published in 1885.
Evidence: The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Russian: Смерть Ивана Ильича, Smert' Ivána Ilyichá), first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, considered one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious conversion of the late 1870s. 
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