Google Doodle – Leo Tolstoy

186th Birth Anniversary of Leo Tolstoy

For a dozen years, Google has been occasionally swapping its everyday logo for a doodle, a sketch celebrating holidays, inventions, artists and sporting events.

Today is the 186th birth anniversary of Leo Tolstoy, the Russian novelist and philosopher. Google on its search page has created a captivating slideshow doodle showcasing his greatest works.

On clicking the doodle, it takes the visitor to Google search result page for news on Leo Tolstoy.

Below is a picture of the Leo Tolstoy Doodle on Google’s home page:

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
(September 9, 1828 – November 20, 1910)

Leo Tolstoy was a Russian novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist, philosopher and political thinker.

He was born on September 9, 1828 and died from pneumonia at Astapovo train station aged 82 in 1910.

Major Works:
Leo Tolstoy was a master of realistic fiction and is widely considered one of the greatest novelists of all time. He is best known for two long novels, War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). Other notable works are – The Death of Ivan Ilych, A Confession, The Kingdom of God Is Within You, Resurrection.

Leo Tolstoy Slideshow Doodle

The Google home page featured a slideshow doodle to celebrate Leo Tolstoy’s 186th birthday. The global doodle is created by Russian illustrator and a guest doodler, Roman Muradov.

The slideshow doodle features 10 slides including a few interstitial slides presenting scenes from his most famous works. The first slide depicts Tolstoy writing at his desk by candlelight, and the Google logo on the wall behind. The 3rd slide with the title of his famous novel War and Peace, depicting its central character Countess Natasha on a balcony followed by a scene from the novel. The 6th slide with the title of the novel Anna Karenina, depicting the scene where Anna and Vronsky meet for the first time followed by a scene from the novel. Next the doodle showcases the novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich followed by another scene. The last slide features Leo Tolstoy standing (see below) in the forest of Yasnaya Polyana, where he was born on September 9 1828, with the Google logo in the background between the trees.

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