Saint Peterburg, Wesenberg, ca. 1885. Albumen print, mounted on cardboard with a printed red ink border (10.5 x 6.3 cm), and text printed in red on recto and verso. With the name L. Tolstoy stamped in Cyrillic on verso.

Carte de visite with a fine, crisp portrait of the world-famous Russian novelist Lev "Leo" Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910), author of, for instance, War and Peace, and Anna Karenina. Published by the Wesenberg firm, located at Fontanka 55 in Saint Petersburg. Slightly sunned, apparently as always. Small smudge on the right shoulder, otherwise, this copy overall in very good condition. Very rare.