Goyaałé (aka Geronimo) and Лeв Никола́евич Толсто́й (Lyev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (aka Leo Tolstoy) were contemporaries. Tolstoy was born in 1828; Geronimo reportedly in 1829. Geronimo died of pneumonia in 1909; Tolstoy of pneumonia in 1910.
Which would you rather have been?
Not sure I would want to have been either, since they had rough lives in difficult times. But I would choose to get to meet and talk to Geronimo. Sounds like quite a guy!