1910 Death Leo Tolstoy, Russian author (Anna Karenina), dies at 82 1884 Event Police seize all copies of Tolstoy's "What I Believe In" 1867 Event Leo Tolstoy's "Smert Ioonna Groznogo," premieres in St. Petersburg 1828 Birthday Leo Tolstoy, Russia, novelist, War and Peace, Anna Karenina,