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How did Leo Tolstoy die at Astapovo railroad station?

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Portrait of Leo Tolstoy with a long white beard, wearing a dark shirt and looking slightly to the side. — Leo Tolstoy Russian writer Leo Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the world's greatest novelists. His masterpieces are *War and Peace* (1865–69) and *Anna Karenina* (1875–77).

In 1910, Leo Tolstoy fled his home at Yasnaya Polyana to escape his increasingly strained domestic life and the conflict between his lifestyle and personal principles.12

While traveling, he contracted pneumonia and was forced to stop at the railroad station in Astapovo, Russia. He ultimately died there from heart failure at the age of 82.12