Leo, Russian name Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy. 1828–1910, Russian novelist, short-story writer, and philosopher; author of the two monumental novels War and Peace (1865–69) and Anna Karenina (1875–77). Following a spiritual crisis in 1879, he adopted a form of Christianity based on a doctrine of nonresistance to evil
Tolstoy in American English
(ˈtoʊlˌstɔɪ; ˈtɑlstɔɪ; Russian tɔlˈstɔɪ)
Countˌ Leo Nikoˈlayeˌvich (ˌnikɔˈlɑjɛˌvɪtʃ) 1828-1910; Russ. novelist & social theoretician