Tuesday 10 September 2013.
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Лев Никола́евич Толсто́й,) Today is Lev Tolstoy's 185th birthday. Painting above: Lev Tolstoy in his cabinet, by the magnificent Ilya Repin, 1891. Tolstoys's dates: 9 September 1828 – 20 November 1910), [O.S. 28 August to O.S. 7 November] Lev Tolstoy's entre...