In which year did Leo Tolstoy die?

Leo Tolstoy died in 1910, making 1910 the correct answer. He died on November 20, 1910, at the age of 82, at Astapovo railway station in the Russian Empire. The immediate cause was pneumonia.

Tolstoy had left home during a late-life personal crisis, hoping to live more simply and independently. His departure became a national event when illness forced him to stop at the railway station. Doctors treated him there, but he died several days later. His funeral at Yasnaya Polyana drew about 2,000 mourners and was conducted without the usual religious eulogies, in accordance with his family's wishes.

The year can be confused with dates connected to his major books: War and Peace appeared in book form in 1869, Anna Karenina was completed in 1878, and Resurrection was published in 1899. Tolstoy's death also came just one year after his 1909 short story Three Days in the Village, among his final literary works. His death marked the end of a career that had made him one of the world's most influential realist novelists and a major advocate of nonviolence.