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Henri Troyat (born Lev Aslanovich Tarasov) was a Russian-French writer of Armenian heritage, born in Moscow in 1911, who fled the Russian Revolution with his family and settled in Paris in 1920, where he became one of France's most prolific authors, publishing over 100 novels and biographies including notable works like La neige en deuil (adapted as The Mountain) and biographies of Tolstoy, Catherine the Great, and others. 2007.