Who Was Alive

Were Mary Shelley and Leo Tolstoy alive at the same time?

Yes. Mary Shelley and Leo Tolstoy were alive at the same time for 22 years, from 1828 to 1851.

Mary Shelley was 31 when Leo Tolstoy was born.

Leo Tolstoy was 22 when Mary Shelley died, aged 53.

Mary Shelley

English writer

Born 30 August 1797 · died 1 February 1851, aged 53

Leo Tolstoy

Russian author

Born 28 August 1828 (Julian calendar) · died 7 November 1910 (Julian calendar), aged 82

  1. Napoleon
  2. Mary Shelley
  3. Abraham Lincoln
  4. Charles Darwin
  5. Karl Marx
  6. Leo Tolstoy
  7. Vladimir Lenin
  8. Albert Einstein
  9. Adolf Hitler
Mary Shelley and Leo Tolstoy in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.