Leo Tolstoy 1828-1910

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LEO TOLSTOY.–Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy was born on September 9, 1828, at Yasnaya-Polyana, in the Gubernya of Tula, and died at Astapovo on November 20, 1910.

There the death mask was moulded by S. D. Merkurov on the second day after his death and presented by M. A. Stakhovich to the Tolstoy Museum in Leningrad. This is the first occasion on which a reproduction has been published, for which I have the kind permission of the Academy of Science in Leningrad.

Photos and quotations from: Benkard, Ernst, & Green, Margaret (1927). Undying Faces, A Collection of Death Masks. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
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Black & White Photos and quotations from: Benkard, Ernst, & Green, Margaret (1927). Undying Faces, A Collection of Death Masks. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.

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