1869
Tolstoy Completes War and Peace
Yasnaya Polyana · Tula Oblast, Russia · Cultural · The Modern Age
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Over six years Tolstoy, with his wife Sophia copying the drafts by hand, wove hundreds of characters through the Napoleonic wars.
Yasnaya Polyana, where Tolstoy lived, wrote and is buried, is now a museum and pilgrimage site.
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