Leo Tolstoy
The novel intertwines Russian families with the wars against Napoleon. This topic is part of Authors within Arts & Culture. This page currently draws on 5 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
Leo Tolstoy trivia questions
Leo Tolstoy wrote which massive novel set during the Napoleonic Wars?
Answer: War and Peace
Bonus fact: The novel intertwines Russian families with the wars against Napoleon.
Which Tolstoy novel tells the tragic story of a married aristocratic woman?
Answer: Anna Karenina
Bonus fact: Anna Karenina opens with one of literature's most famous family observations.
Tolstoy was born into the aristocracy of which country?
Answer: Russia
Bonus fact: He later became a radical moral and religious thinker.
In Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, with whom does Anna have an affair?
Answer: Count Vronsky
Bonus fact: Anna Karenina first appeared in serial installments from 1875 to 1877 before book publication.
Who wrote War and Peace?
Answer: Leo Tolstoy
Bonus fact: The novel was published in book form in 1869 after earlier serialization.