What is the surname of the author of War and Peace?

The surname of the author of War and Peace is Tolstoy. The novel was written by Leo Tolstoy, one of Russia’s most influential writers and a major figure in world literature.

Tolstoy began developing War and Peace in the early 1860s, drawing on histories, letters, diaries, and memoirs about the Napoleonic Wars and the French invasion of Russia. The novel was published in full in 1869, after parts had appeared in serialized form under the title 1805.

Tolstoy is also the author of Anna Karenina, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, and Resurrection. A common mix-up is confusing him with other major Russian writers: Alexander Pushkin was a poet and novelist, Anton Chekhov was chiefly known for stories and plays, and Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov. Tolstoy’s full name was Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy.