This author expanded on his first critical success with the collection Childhood: Boyhood and Youth.  
A king orders his subjects to determine what the namesake object is in this man's short story, "A Grain as Big as a Hen's Egg".  This author expanded on his first critical success with the collection Childhood: Boyhood and Youth.  Another of his stories contains Schwartz and Gerasim, the latter of which is the nurse of the titular deceased character.  After the death of Luka, Olenin unsuccessfully proposes to Marianka in his The Cossacks, while one of his most famous novels concerns the Kuragin family and Pierre Bezukhov.  For 10 points, identify this Russian author who wrote Anna Karenina and War and Peace.
A king orders his subjects to determine what the namesake object is in this man's short story, "A Grain as Big as a Hen's Egg".  
Leo {Tolstoy} (or {Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy})