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?
Geronimo: despite the tragedy he endured, he experienced the last of his world before it was swept away.