Complex sentence: Sergei Tolstoy, the eldest son of renowned author Leo Tolstoy arrived in Halifax travelling on the SS "Lake Superior" from Russia with 2000 others in 1899, they called themselves Doukhobors, spirit wrestlers, a pacifist community that was currently exiled by Tsarist autocracy.
Split into simpler sentences: Sergei Tolstoy, the eldest son of author Leo Tolstoy, arrived in Halifax on the SS "Lake Superior" from Russia with 2000 others in 1899. They called themselves Doukhobors, spirit wrestlers, a pacifist community that had been exiled by Tsarist autocracy.