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Detailed explanation-1: -War and Peace, historical novel by Leo Tolstoy, originally published as Voyna i mir in 1865–69.

Detailed explanation-2: -He wrote War and Peace between 1863 and 1868, and intended, at first, to write a domestic chronicle in the manner of Trollope (whom Tolstoy, with a few qualifications, admired). The novel would be set in 1856, and concern an aristocratic revolutionary and his return from exile in Siberia.

Detailed explanation-3: -Consequently, Tolstoy is famed for his factual accuracy. War and Peace was originally titled The 1805, but as its scope grew up to 1813, Tolstoy changed the name.