Today Google wishes one of most renowned and celebrated Russian writer and philosopher, Leo Tolstoy, with an animated doodle.

Tolstoy was born on 9 September 1828 and died from pneumonia in 1910. He was 82 years old.

The doodle is presented in the format of a slideshow with images taken from his most famous and eminent novels which gave him world wide recognition, including War and Peace, Anna Karenina and The Death of Ivan Ilyich.

Tolstoy influenced many writers during the later half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, including Virginia Woolf, James Joyce and Vladimir Nabokov, while he made a great impact in political field, too influencing Mohandas Gandhi, who in turn influenced others like Martin Luther King, Jr.