Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a Russian writer, best known for his novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina.

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• In a few episodes of Sesame Street (including 2946 and 3067), Prairie Dawn is seen reading a miniature copy of Anna Karenina.
• In a 2004 episode of Sesame Street, Gabi shows Cookie Monster she's reading Anna Karenina for school. Cookie comments, "Tolstoy? Tolstoy not cookie. Toll House cookie!"
• Karina the Ballerina's name is a take on Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin's 1971 ballet of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.