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Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was born in 1828 in Russia. In 1845, he entered the University of Kazan to study Oriental Languages, but dropped out, moving to Moscow and then to St. Petersburg. In 1851, he served in the Russian army in the Caucasus and began his writing career. He later married Sofia Andréievna Behrs, with whom he had thirteen children. Between 1865 and 1878, Tolstoy published a series of world literary classics that made him famous in the literary field, such as War and Peace and Anna Kariênina. At the height of his success, however, the writer suffered from recurrent existential crises that led him to adopt a social-religious stance known as “Tolstoyism.” In 1919, at the age of 82, Tolstoy ran away from home to retire to a monastery, but he died of pneumonia on the way to his destination.