Count Lev Lvovich Tolstoy (; 1 June (Old style: 20 May) 1869 – 18 October 1945) was a Russian writer, and the fourth child and third son of

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. Lev Lvovich, whom his father once called "Leo Tolstoy, Junior" was a fairly well known and respected

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author and playwright in pre-Revolutionary Russia. Although he had enjoyed good relations with his parents, by the 1890s Lev Lvovich had come to doubt his father’s religious and moral teachings, eventually becoming an ardent

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and Russian

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. While living in exile after the

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in Sweden, he became a vocal and sometimes harsh critic of his father’s teachings. He continued to write there, but also received attention as an artist and sculptor: he participated in numerous exhibits, where his busts of his father,

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, and

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brought renown. He died in

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, Sweden on 18 October 1945. He is buried in the cemetery of Sireköpinge Church.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tolstoy, Lev Lvovich 1869 births 1945 deaths Lev Lvovich Counts of the Russian Empire Leo Tolstoy Russian monarchists Russian anti-communists Refugees in Sweden People who emigrated to escape Bolshevism Emigrants from the Russian Empire to Sweden