LONDON, June 7 (UPI) -- Alexandra Tolstoy, a distant relative of famed Russian author Leo Tolstoy, is struggling with a newborn while divorcing her husband, a family friend says.

LONDON, March 5 (UPI) -- A survey released to coincide with World Book Day suggests two-thirds of Britons have lied about reading classic books such as Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace."

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn passed away Sunday at the age of 89 after one of the most extraordinary lives in the history of world literature.

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CANNES, France, May 21 (UPI) -- Academy award winners Anthony Hopkins and Meryl Streep are set to star in "The Last Station," a Hollywood biopic about the life of Russian author Leo Tolstoy.

PARIS, March 5 (UPI) -- Henri Troyat, who fled the Russian revolution as a child and became one of France's great modern writers, died in Paris at the age of 95.

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