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Birthday
Leo Tolstoy was born on August 28, 1828 in krapivensky uyezd in Tula province, in the hereditary estate of mother - Yasnaya Polyana.. Mother died in 1830, six months after the birth of her daughter from «the ancestral fever», as they said, when the lion was not yet 2 years old. -
He beginning of his
Since March 11, 1847, Tolstoy was in Kazan hospital, March 17, he began to keep a diary, where, like Benjamin Franklin, set goals and tasks for self-improvement, noted the successes and failures in carrying out these tasks, analyzed their shortcomings and thoughts, motives of his actions. This diary with small breaks he kept throughout his life. -
The youth.
In the autumn of 1851 Thick, passing in Tiflis exam, received a cadet in the 4-th battery of the 20-th artillery brigade, stationed in the Cossack village of Starogladovskaya on the Bank of the Terek river, under the Kizlyar. -
Military service.
Immediately after the assault on 27 August (8 September) Tolstoy was sent by courier to Petersburg, where he graduated from Sevastopol in may 1855» and wrote «Sevastopol in August, 1855», published in the first issue of «Sovremennik» for the year 1856 already with full signature of the author. «Sevastopol stories» finally solidified his reputation as a representative of the new literary generation, and in November 1856 writer ever leaves military service. -
The novel.
Last novel was published in «the Russian Bulletin» Mikhail Katkov. Cooperation Tolstoy with the magazine «Sovremennik», which lasted from 1852, was completed in 1859. -
The death
November 10, 1910 L. N. Tolstoy was buried in Yasnaya Polyana, at the edge of the ravine in the forest, where in his childhood he and his brother were looking for «green stick»kept «secret»of how to make all people happy. When the coffin with the deceased was lowered into the grave, all present reverently bowed the knee.
