How did Leo Tolstoy die?

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Upset by an unhappy marriage and by the contradiction between his life and his principles, Leo Tolstoy left his family’s estate in 1910. Despite his stealth, the press began reporting on his movements. He soon contracted pneumonia and died of heart failure at a railroad station in Astapovo, Russia. He was 82.