Leo Tolstoy
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (9 September 1828 – 20 November 1910), was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. Tolstoy's notable works include the novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1878). Like many members of nobility, Tolstoy had mastered many languages during his life. Not only was he fluent in English, French and German, he could also read in Greek, Latin, Spanish, Italian, Ukrainian, Turkish and Bulgarian, among other languages. His house library consisted of 23,000 books in 39 languages.
