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Does anyone know why is Tolstoy's name usually in English anglicized as Leo? I know it's customary to do for Pope and kings, but I don't know of any other write

Does anyone know why is Tolstoy's name usually in English anglicized as Leo? I know it's customary to do for Pope and kings, but I don't know of any other writer. Fyodor Dostoyevsky is Fyodor, not Theodore or Fred or whatever, so why has Lev become Leo? Publishers?

jhbadger 8y ago
Basically yes, via French "Léon", according to this article: https://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/2015/03/how-lev-tolstoy-became-leo-tolstoy/ https://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/2015/03/how-lev-tolst...
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