There are no noticeable stains or scratches, but please understand that this item has been stored by an individual. ◆ Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой, Romanized: Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, September 9, 1828 [August 28, Julian calendar] - November 20, 1910 [November 7, Julian calendar]) was a novelist and thinker of Imperial Russia. Along with Fyodor Dostoevsky and Ivan Turgenev, he is a representative literary giant of 19th-century Russian literature. He is sometimes referred to as "Tolstoy the Great" to distinguish him from others with the same surname, but even when simply written as Tolstoy, it often refers to Lev Tolstoy. #Tolstoy #Russia #RussianEmbassy