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Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy

Count, russian poet, novelist and playwright.

Born September 5th, 1817 in Saint Petersburg.

Died October 10th, 1875 at 58 years old in Krasnyi Rog (drug overdose).

Occupations
novelist, playwright, poet, translator, writer

Death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life’s change agent, it clears out the old to make way for the new. Steve Jobs