Question

Write a bio sketch writing about leo Tolstoy in 150 words

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Tolstoy is a Russian author best known for the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina. He was born in 1828 into a Russian aristocratic family. He enlisted in the army and served in the Caucasus, experiences he used for several short stories. Tolstoy eventually settled down, married Sophia Behrs and devoted his time to writing on his estate at Yasnaya Polyana, Russia. In 1870, he went through a spiritual conversion which he recounts in the novel Confession. He re-evaluated his moral beliefs and refined them to a pacifist perspective of life. He wrote about these beliefs in other works, which eventually led to a conflict with the Russian Orthodox Church. Tolstoy passed away in 1910.