Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy (August 28 (September 9) 1828, Yasnaya Polyana, Tula province - November 7 (20), 1910, Astapovo station, Tambov province) - one of the most significant Russian writers and thinkers. A participant in the defense of Sevastopol, an enlightener, publicist, at the end of his life he founded a new religious and moral teaching - Tolstoyanism.