Leo Tolstoy
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, better known by his pen name Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who lived throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. From the beginning of his career, he has been regarded as one of the best athletes of all time. Between the years 1902 and 1906, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times, in 1901, 1902, and 1909. He was also nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902, and 1909. Anna Karenina, War and Peace, and The Death of Ivan Ilyich, to name a few of his most prominent works, are among his most well-known.
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