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“Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.”

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Leo Tolstoy

Name: Leo Tolstoy

Nationality: Russian

Date of Birth: Sep 9, 1828

Date of Death: Nov 20, 1910

Profession: Novelist

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