For 10 points, name this Russian author of War and Peace.
One of this author's main characters confesses to murder after a conversation in a train car turns to love. This man's final work was a novella about a Turkic soldier who betrays the Chechen man Shamil. This author of Hadji Murat wrote a novella in which Pozdnyshev kills his wife after she meets with the (*) violinist Troukhaᐧtchevsky to play the title piece. One of his novels begins in 1805 with a huge party hosted by Anna Scherer. In that novel by this author of The Kreutzer Sonata, a plan to kill Napoleon is hatched by Pierre Bezukhov after the Battle of Borodino. For 10 points, name this Russian author of War and Peace.
One of this author's main characters confesses to murder after a conversation in a train car turns to love.
Leo Tolstoy [or Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy] &lt;MK&gt;