For years I've been reading Count Nikolai Tolstoy's "The Tolstoys, twenty-four generations of Russian history, 1353-1983" on and off. Amongst other interesting and surprising things that I've learned from the book was what Leo Tolstoy looked like when he was young. I used to think of him as and intense old dude sporting Karl Marx/Saddam in hiding/Fidel Castro hairstyle. It turns out that in his youth he looked more like Matt Damon: