num_pages: 624
description: Leo Tolstoy's life encompassed the gambling saloons and brothels of Moscow and St Petersburg, life as an artillery officer in the Crimean War and as an enlightened landowner in Tsarist Russia. This biography sheds new light on his genius.
language: English
title: Tolstoy
titlecomplete: Tolstoy
characters: Leo Tolstoy
genres: Russian Literature, Biography, Literature, Russia, Classics, Nonfiction, Memoir, Biography Memoir, History
ratings_count: 390
awards: awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Whitbread Award
category: Biography
publisher: Penguin Books Ltd