Which Russian author wrote "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina"?

Question

Which 19th century author improved the system of signalling at sea and wrote "Mr Midshipman Easy", "Masterman Ready" and "The Children of the New Forest"?

Answer 1

On September 9, 1828, Leo Tolstoy was born in Tula Province, Russia. In the 1860s, he wrote his first great novel, War and Peace. In 1873, Tolstoy set to work on the second of his best known novels, Anna Karenina. He continued to write fiction throughout the 1880s and 1890s.