Full Name: Leo Tolstoy (Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy); Profession: Russian novelist, essayist, moral and religious philosopher, and social thinker; Nationality: Russian; Born: 9 September 1828; Birthplace: Yasnaya Polyana, Tula province, Russian Empire; Generation: 19th-century Russian realist literary generation and Golden Age of Russian literature; Chinese Zodiac: Earth Rat (Year of the Rat 14 February 1828 – 3 January 1829); Zodiac Sign: Virgo; Age in 2026: 198 (if alive); Marital Status: Married to Sophia Andreyevna Bers (Sophia Tolstaya) from 1862 until his death; Children: 13 biological children with Sophia Tolstaya, eight of whom survived into adulthood; Description: Leo Tolstoy was born into an aristocratic Russian family and became one of the greatest and most influential authors in world history, renowned for vast, psychologically rich novels such as “War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina” that explore war, peace, family life, moral responsibility, and spiritual struggle; over his lifetime he evolved from a nobleman and officer into a radical Christian anarchist and pacifist critic of state and church, rejecting his inherited wealth and status, advocating nonviolence, simple living, and compassion, and inspiring later figures including Mahatma Gandhi and other leaders of nonviolent resistance; his essays, religious writings, and educational experiments at his estate at Yasnaya Polyana, along with his commitment to peasant welfare and moral reform, made him a central figure in 19th- and early 20th-century intellectual life, and his legacy continues to shape modern literature, ethics, and spiritual thought; Cause of Death: Died of pneumonia with associated heart failure at the Astapovo railway station (now Lev Tolstoy) in Russia on 20 November 1910, having left his estate in search of spiritual solitude near the end of his life.