Dear Anna Karenina readers,
I’m really looking forward to our fourteen-month Anna Karenina read-along adventure, which begins next Friday 10 January. All the details are here .
In the meantime, here’s a short biography of Tolstoy before we get started.
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Leo Tolstoy was born into an aristocratic Russian family. His father Count Nikolai Ilyich Tolstoy had fought against the French during Napoleon’s 1812 invasion, the campaign that Tolstoy would later recreate in War and Peace .