Russia: Leo Tolstoy with Maxim Gorky in Yasnaya Polyana (Tolstoy's house near Tula). Photo by Sofia Andreevna Tolstoy (Tolstoy's wife), 1900

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian novelist regarded as one of the greatest of all time.

Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (1868-1936), primarily known as Maxim (Maksim) Gorky, was a Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the Socialist realism literary method and a political activist.

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