this man is regarded as russia's finest writer of all time leo tolstoy born in eight hundred twenty eight he adopted a very healthy lifestyle as he grew older tolstoy takes third place in our ranking at some stage the writer decided to do without alcohol cigarettes and. he said to have served his aunt a live chicken once along with a big knife and then supposedly told her you wanted chicken but none of us would kill it so you'll have to do it yourself. you know a month old going from good to born in frankfurt in seven hundred forty nine had a lifelong hunger for knowledge is your petition as a writer and poet is stellar and he also devoted much time to the natural sciences it was also health conscious and therefore opted for vegetarian fare putting him in second place on our famous vegetarians drinking. a good deal was convinced that abstaining from meat was good for his brain and besides that he couldn't stand animal cruelty either. but this man arguably surpasses them all leonardo da vinci born in fourteen fifty two in italy is one of the brightest minds ever to have walked this earth d