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35 Historical Figures photographed in the 19th Century

18. Lev Tolstoy

Bild: Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Born in 1828, Lev Tolstoy was a Russian author who is known for works such as War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Although he was nominated for a Nobel Prize four years in a row he has never been awarded one.


The most famous photo of him was taken in 1908 when he was 80 years old.