These Newly-Colorized Historical Photos Reveal Shocking Things

Tolstoy, 1908

Regarded as the greatest writer of all time, Russian author Tolstoy poses here in 1908. He often wrote about various family dynamics and believed that love, above all things, was the most important part of life.

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