When was War and Peace published?

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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).

War and Peace, the renowned historical novel by Leo Tolstoy, was originally published between 1865 and 1869.1

The work was initially serialized in the periodical Russkiy Vestnik starting in 1865 under the title 1805, but Tolstoy later chose to publish the remainder of the text in volumes. By 1868, three volumes had been released, and Tolstoy completed the final three volumes between 1868 and 1869.1