Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer who mainly wrote short stories and novels and later wrote plays and essays. Tolstoy is best known for his novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina. These two books were considered two of the greatest novels of all time in the genre of realistic fiction. People not only considered Tolstoy's novels to be the greatest of all time, they considered him the greatest novelist of all time. Tolstoy is known for his paradoxical and complicated personality and also for his moralistic views. People saw him as a moral thinker. One bit about Tolstoy was that he was born in Yashaya Polyana, a family estate in the Tula region of Russia. The Tolstoy family were well-known Russian nobles. When Tolstoy was younger his parents died so his old relatives took care of him and his siblings. Tolstoy learned oriental languages ​​and studied law at Kazan University. He left after being deemed unable to learn and spent most of his time in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Later in 1851 Tolstoy went to the Caucasus with his brother and joined the army. Tolstoy began writing around the time he joined the army. At the age of thirty-four, in September 1862, Tolstoy married one of his sister Sofia Andreyevna Behrs' friends. Tolstoy had 12 children in total with Sofia. The children's names were Sergey, Tatiana, Ilya, Leo, Marya, Petya, Alexis, Andrey, Nucholas, Alexandra, Ivan and another daughter who was not named due to her death after birth. Sofia was interested in Tolstoy's life and wanted to know everything about him before they married, so Tolstoy gave her his diaries to read. Sofia was a very useful resource in Tolstoy's writing career. Sofia had organized h...... half of the paper ...... after her death. How happy that this is not the case! What anguish it would be if I remembered in this life all the evil, all that is painful to the conscience, committed by me in a previous life….How happy that the reminiscences disappear with death and that only conscience remains." Tolstoy intended to begin a new life and did so on October 28, 1910, arriving at the stationmaster's home at the Astapovo railway station, where he died of pneumonia on November 20, 1910. Although he did not want any ceremony or rite, thousands showed up to pay their respects. He was buried in a simple wooden coffin near Nikolay's "place of the green stick" near the ravine in the Stary Zakaz forest in the Yasnya Polyana estate, and returned to that idyllic place where Nikolay had told him that the secret of the happiness and the end of all suffering.