Another of his protagonists loves Count Vronsky and throws herself in front of a train.
One novel by this author, which was inspired by reading another author's The Tales of Belkin, has the epigraph "Vengeance is mine: I will repay." In another novel, this author wrote of a man who leaves his pregnant wife Lise, the "Little Princess," at the estate of Bleak Hills to join the war effort. This author created a man who breaks the back of the horse Frou Frou in a steeplechase accident, visibly concerning that man's mistress. He created Prince (*) Andrey Bolkonsky in a novel in which the protagonist fights in the Battle of Borodino. Another of his protagonists loves Count Vronsky and throws herself in front of a train. For 10 points, name this author of Anna Karenina and War and Peace.
One novel by this author, which was inspired by reading another author's The Tales of Belkin, has the epigraph "Vengeance is mine: I will repay."
Leo Tolstoy [or Count Lev Nikolayovich Tolstoy]