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Tolstoy, or Tolstoi is a prominent family of Russian nobility

Russian nobility

The Russian nobility arose in the 14th century and essentially governed Russia until the October Revolution of 1917.The Russian language word for nobility, Dvoryanstvo , derives from the Russian word dvor , meaning the Court of a prince or duke and later, of the tsar....
, descending from one Andrey Kharitonovich Tolstoy (i.e., "the Fat") who served under Vasily II of Moscow

Vasili II of Russia

Vasily II Vasiliyevich Tyomniy was the Grand Duchy of Moscow whose long reign was plagued by the greatest civil war of Old Russian history....
. The "wild Tolstoys" (as they were known in the high society of Imperial Russia) have left a lasting legacy in Russian politics, military history, literature, and fine arts.

The Tolstoys in Russian politics
Andrey Kharitonovich Tolstoy was in turn a great-grandson of some Indris who was "a man of distinguished ancestry" who came from "the Germans, the Caesar's lands" (the Holy Roman Empire

Holy Roman Empire

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Tolstoy, or Tolstoi is a prominent family of Russian nobility

Russian nobility

Vasili II of Russia

The Tolstoys in Russian politics

Andrey Kharitonovich Tolstoy was in turn a great-grandson of some Indris who was "a man of distinguished ancestry" who came from "the Germans, the Caesar's lands" (the Holy Roman Empire

Holy Roman Empire

The Holy Roman Empire was a union of territories in Central Europe during the Middle Ages and the Early modern Europe under a Holy Roman Emperor....
) to Chernigov, accompanied by his sons Litvinos and Zimonten and a force of 3000 men. This family legend is unverifiable.

The family first reached prominence in the late 17th century, on account of its connections with the Miloslavsky clan to which Tsar Alexis' first wife belonged. It was okolnichi Peter Andreevich Tolstoy who decided the family fortune by casting his lot with the party of Peter the Great

Peter I of Russia

Peter I the Great or Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov ruled Russia and later the Russian Empire from until his death, jointly ruling before 1696 with his weak and sickly half-brother, Ivan V of Russia....
. He gradually gained in Peter's confidence serving first as the Russian ambassador to Constantinople

Constantinople

Constantinople was the empire capital of the Roman Empire , the Byzantine Empire , the Latin Empire , and the Ottoman Empire . Strategically located between the Golden Horn and the Sea of Marmara at the point where Europe meets Asia, Byzantine Constantinople had been the capital of a Christendom empire, successor to ancient ancient Greece...
, then as the head of the secret police. Although detested by contemporaries, Tolstoy was made a count

Count

A count is a nobleman in European countries; The word count comes from French language comte, itself from Latin comes?in its Accusative case comitem?meaning "companion", and later "companion of the emperor, delegate of the emperor"....
for his part in securing the throne for Catherine I

Catherine I of Russia

Ekaterina I Alexeyevna , the second wife of Peter I of Russia, functioned as co-ruler with her husband from 1724 until his death early in the next year, and reigned as sole Empress of Russia from 1725 until her death....
. He later clashed with the mighty Prince Menshikov, was stripped of his titles and exiled to the Solovki

Solovki

The Solovki prison camp was located on the Solovetsky Islands, in the White Sea). It was the "mother of the GULAG" according to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn....
. The titles and estates were restored to his grandchildren 30 years later.

The most famous of 19th-century Tolstoy politicians was Count Dmitri Andreevich

Dmitry Tolstoy

Count Dmitry Andreyevich Tolstoy was a Russian statesman, a member of the State Council of Imperial Russia . He belonged to the count branch of the Tolstoy....
(1823–89), successively the Minister of Education, Minister of Interior and President of the Academy of Science. During his term in office, he put into effect a vigorous Russification

Russification

Russification is an adoption of the Russian language or some other Russian attribute by non-Russian communities. In a narrow sense, Russification is used to denote the influence of the Russian language on Slavic languages, Baltic languages and other languages, spoken in areas currently or formerly controlled by Russia, which led to emerging...
program in Poland and Ukraine, for which he is chiefly remembered.

The Tolstoys in the Napoleonic wars

Two members of the family were active during the Napoleonic wars

Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars were a series of conflicts involving Napoleon I of France First French Empire and changing sets of European allies and opposing coalitions that ran from 1803 to 1815....
. Count Peter Alexandrovich (1761–1844) served under Suvorov in wars against Poland and Turkey, was made a general-adjutant in 1797, went as an ambassador to Paris

Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
in 1807 and tried to persuade Alexander I

Alexander I of Russia

Alexander I of Russia , also known as Alexander the Blessed served as Tsar of Russia from 23 March 1801 to 1 December 1825 and Ruler of Poland from 1815 to 1825, as well as the first Russian Grand Duke of Finland....
to prepare for the war against France, without much success though. He served as the governor of St Petersburg and Kronstadt

Kronstadt

Kronstadt , also spelled Kronshtadt, Cronstadt is a Russian seaport town, located on Kotlin Island, thirty kilometers west of Saint Petersburg near the head of the Gulf of Finland....
from 1828 until his death.

Alexander Ivanovich Tolstoy
Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy

Alexander Ivanovich Count Ostermann-Tolstoy was a Russians nobleman and soldier in the era of the French Revolutionary Wars. He belonged to the famous Tolstoy family....
(1770–1857), stemming from a collateral branch of the family, inherited the committal title and estates of his childless uncle

Ivan Osterman

Count Ivan Andreyevich Osterman was a Russian statesman, son of Andrei Osterman.After Osterman's father had fallen into disgrace, he was transferred from the Russian Imperial Guard to the regular army and then sent abroad, where he would continue his education....
, the last of the Osterman

Osterman

Osterman or Ostermann is a surname, and may refer to* Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy* Andrei Osterman* Cat Osterman* Edward Albert Ostermann...
ns. He first distinguished himself in the battle of Charnova (1807) where his regiment held out for 15 hours against the whole army commanded by Napoleon. One of the most admired generals of the anti-Napoleonic coalition, he was rewarded for his courage in the battles at Pultusk

Battle of Pultusk

The Battle of Pultusk took place on December 26 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars near Pultusk, Poland. 35,000 Imperial Russia soldiers with 128 guns under Levin August, Count von Bennigsen resisted the attacks of 25,000 First French Empire soldiers under Jean Lannes, and withdrew the next day....
and Eylau

Battle of Eylau

The Battle of Eylau or Battle of Preussisch-Eylau was a bloody and inconclusive battle between Napoleon I of France Grande Arm?e and a mostly Russian Empire army under Levin August, count von Bennigsen near the town of Preu?isch Eylau in East Prussia....
. At Guttstadt

Dobre Miasto

Dobre Miasto [] is a town in Poland, in Olsztyn County in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. It has 10,579 inhabitants . It is situated in the northwestern part of the Masurian Lake District in the heart of the historical region Warmia....
he was wounded so seriously that they feared for his life. In the great battle of Borodino

Battle of Borodino

The Battle of Borodino , fought on September 7, 1812, was the largest and bloodiest single-day action of the Napoleonic Wars, involving more than 250,000 troops and resulting in at least 70,000 casualties....
he brilliantly commanded the key positions until he was shell-shocked and taken away from the battlefield. Ostermann-Tolstoy was once again wounded in the battle of Bautzen

Battle of Bautzen

In the Battle of Bautzen a combined Imperial Russia/Kingdom of Prussia army was pushed back by Napoleon I of France, but escaped destruction, some sources claim, because Michel Ney failed to block their retreat....
(1813) but didn't give up command of his force. His crowning achievement was the victory at Kulm

Battle of Kulm

The Battle of Kulm was a battle near the town Chlumec and the village Prestanov in northern Bohemia. It was fought on August 29-30 1813, during the War of the Sixth Coalition....
(August 30, 1813), which cost him amputation of the left arm. When the war was over, he quarreled with the Emperor, resigned and spent the rest of his life in Europe.

The Tolstoys in high society

Count Feodor Petrovich Tolstoy
Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy

Count Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy was a Russian artist who served as Vice-President of the Imperial Academy of Arts for forty years . His works ? wax-reliefs, watercolours, medallions, and silhouettes ? are distinguished by a cool detachment and spare and economical classicism....
(1783–1873), sympathetically mentioned by Pushkin in Eugene Onegin, was one of the most fashionable Russian drawers and painters of the 1820s. Although he prepared fine illustrations for Bogdanovich

Ippolit Bogdanovich

Ippolit Fyodorovich Bogdanovich was a Russian classicist author of light poetry, best known for his long poem Dushenka .Biography ...
's Dushenka, his genuine vocation was wax modeling and design of medals. As he gradually went blind he had to give up drawing and started writing ballet

Ballet

Ballet is a formalized type of performative dance, the origins of which date lay in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France courts, and which was further developed in England, Italy, and Russia as a concert dance form....
s and librettos for operas. He was appointed Vice-President of the Academy of Arts in 1828. Many of his works may be seen in the Russian Museum

Russian Museum

The State Russian Museum is the largest depository of the Russian fine art in St Petersburg.The museum was established on April 13, 1895, upon enthronement of Nicholas II of Russia to commemorate his father, Alexander III of Russia....
, St Petersburg.

Count Feodor Ivanovich Tolstoy (1782–1846) was a notorious drunkard, gastronome, and duellist. It is said that he killed 11 people in duels. In 1803 he participated in the first Russian circumnavigation

Circumnavigation

To circumnavigate a place, such as an island, a continent, or the Earth, is to travel all the way around it by boat or ship. More recently, the term has also been used to cover aerial round-the-world flights....
of the Earth. After he had his body tattooed at the Marquesas and debauched all the crew, captain Krusenstern

Adam Johann von Krusenstern

Adam Johann Ritter von Krusenstern was a Baltic German admiral and List of explorers in Russian Empire service, who led the first Russian circumnavigation of the Earth....
had to maroon him on the Aleutian Islands

Aleutian Islands

The Aleutian Islands are a chain of more than 300 small volcanic islands forming a volcanic arc in the Northern Pacific Ocean, occupying an area of 6,821 sq mi and extending about 1,200 mi westward from the Alaska Peninsula toward the Kamchatka Peninsula....
near Kamchatka

Kamchatka Peninsula

The Kamchatka Peninsula is a 1,250-kilometer long peninsula in the Russian Far East, with an area of 472,300 km?. It lies between the Pacific Ocean to the east and the Sea of Okhotsk to the west....
. Upon his return to St Petersburg, Count Fedor was nicknamed Amerikanets ("the American"). He fought bravely in the Patriotic War of 1812 but scandalized his family again by marrying a Gypsy singer in 1821. Alexander Griboyedov satirized him in Woe from Wit
Woe from Wit

Woe from Wit is Aleksandr Griboyedov's comedy in verse, satirizing the society of post-Napoleonic Moscow, or, as a high official in the play styled it, "a pasquinade on Moscow."...
, and his cousin Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy

The Tolstoys in Russian literature

Many of the Tolstoys devoted their spare time to literary pursuits. For instance, Count Alexei Konstantinovich

Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy

Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy was a Russian poet, novelist and dramatist.Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy was born in Saint Petersburg to the famed family of Tolstoy....
(1817–75) was a courtier but also one of the most popular Russian poets of his time. He wrote admirable ballad

Ballad

A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative story and set to music. Ballads were characteristic of particularly British and Irish popular poetry and song from the later medieval period until the nineteenth century and used extensively across Europe and later north America, Australia and north Africa....
s, a historical novel, some licentious verse, and satire

Satire

Satire is often strictly defined as a literary genre; although, in practice, it is also found in the graphic arts and performing arts. In satire, human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule, derision, burlesque, irony, or other methods, ideally with the intent to bring about improv...
s published under the penname of Kozma Prutkov

Kozma Prutkov

Kozma Prutkov is a fictional author invented by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy and his cousins, three Zhemchuzhnikov brothers, Alexei Zhemchuzhnikov, Vladimir Zhemchuzhnikov and Alexander Zhemchuzhnikov, during the later part of Nicholas I of Russia's authoritarian reign....
. His lasting contribution to the Russian literature was a trilogy of historical dramas, modelled after Pushkin's Boris Godunov.

Count Lev Nikolaevich (1828–1910), more widely known abroad as Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy, or Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy Tolstoy's further talents as essayist, dramatist and Education reform made him the most influential member of the aristocracy Tolstoy....
is acclaimed as one of the greatest novelists of all time. After he started his career in the military, he was first drawn to writing books when he served in Chechenya, and already his first novel, Kazaky ("The Cossacks"), was something quite unlike anything written before him. It was in his family estate Yasnaya Polyana

Yasnaya Polyana

Yasnaya Polyana was the home of Leo Tolstoy, located 12 kilometers southwest of Tula, Russia, Russia. The writer was born, lived and was buried there....
near Tula

Tula, Russia

Tula is an industrial types of inhabited localities in Russia in the European part of Russia, located 193 km south of Moscow, on the river Upa River....
that he created two novels, War and Peace
War and Peace

War and Peace is a novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russkiy Vestnik , which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era....
and Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina , is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger....
, that are widely acclaimed as among the best novels ever written. Later he developed a kind of non-traditional Christian philosophy

Tolstoyan

Tolstoyanism is the religion of Tolstoyans , who follow the religious views expressed by Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy . Tolstoy's views were formed by rigorous study of the Gospel teachings of Jesus Christ, particularly, The Sermon on the Mount....
, described in his work The Kingdom of God is Within You
The Kingdom of God Is Within You

The Kingdom of God Is Within You is the non-fiction magnum opus of Leo Tolstoy and was first published in Germany in 1894, after being banned in his home country of Russia....
which inspired Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke is considered one of the German language's greatest 20th century poets. His haunting images focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety ? themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets....
and a young Indian lawyer named Mohandas Gandhi whose influence extended out to Martin Luther King.

Of Lev's thirteen children, most spent their life either promoting his teachings or denouncing them. His youngest daughter and secretary, Alexandra Lvovna (1884–1979), had a particularly troubled life. Although she shared with her father the doctrine of non-violence, she felt it was her duty to take part in the events of World War I

World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
.

Count Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1883–1945) belonged to a different branch of the family. His early short stories, published in 1910s, were panned by critics for excessive naturalism

Naturalism (literature)

Naturalism is a Literature Literary movement that seeks to replicate a Verisimilitude everyday life, as opposed to such movements as Romanticism or Surrealism, in which subjects may receive highly symbolic, idealistic, or even supernatural treatment....
and wanton eroticism. After the Revolution

Russian Revolution of 1917

The Russian Revolution is the series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union....
he briefly emigrated to Germany, but then changed his political views and returned to the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
. His science fiction novels Aelita

Aelita

Aelita , also known as Aelita: Queen of Mars, is a silent film directed by Soviet Union filmmaker Yakov Protazanov made on Gorky Film Studio and released in 1924 in film....
(1923), about a journey to the Mars, and Engineer Garin's Death Ray (1927) are still popular with readers. In his later years he published two lengthy novels on historical subjects, Peter the First (1929–45) and The Road to Calvary (1922–41). As a staunch supporter of Stalin, he became known as "Red Count" or "Comrade Count" and his work was acknowledged to be classics of the Soviet literature. Most of his reputation declined with that of Socialist Realism

Socialist realism

Socialist realism is a Teleology-oriented style of realism which has as its purpose the furtherance of the goals of socialism and communism. Although related, it should not be confused with social realism, a type of art that realistically depicts subjects of social concern....
, but his children's tale character Buratino

Buratino

Buratino is the main character of the book The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Buratino by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy. A loose Russian adaptation of Pinocchio , Buratino originated as a character in the commedia dell'arte ....
retains his strong legacy with the younger audience of Russia and across the former Soviet space, appearing as popular reading, a movie, and a variety of derivative forms.

His granddaughter Tatiana Tolstaya

Tatyana Tolstaya

File:Tatyana Tolstaya.jpgTatyana Tolstaya is a Russian writer, TV host, publicist, novelist, and essayist....
(born in 1951) is one of the foremost Russian short story writers. Another living member of the family is Nikolai Tolstoy-Miloslavsky

Nikolai Tolstoy

Nikolai Dmitrievich Tolstoy-Miloslavsky is a prominent England historian, author and British House of Commons candidate, who writes under the name Nikolai Tolstoy....
(born in 1935), a controversial British historian.

People

*Selivestr Ivanovich Tolstoy (? –1612), officer

Grigory Ivanovich Tolstoy (? –1636), officer
Vasili Ivanovich Tolstoy (? –1649), officer
Andrey Vasiliyevich Tolstoy (? –1690), officer
Ivan Andreyevich Tolstoy
Ivan Andreyevich Tolstoy

Ivan Andreevich Tolstoy was a Russian officer in the army of Tsar Peter I of Russia.Ivan Andreevich was a member of prominent Tolstoy family, son of Andrey Vasiliyevich Tolstoy and Solomonida Miloslavskaya, older brother of Pyotr Andreyevich Tolstoy, nephew of Maria Miloslavskaya and a cousin of tzar Feodor III of Russia, Ivan V o...
(1644 –1713), officer
Pyotr Andreyevich Tolstoy
Pyotr Andreyevich Tolstoy

Count Pyotr Andreyevich Tolstoy was a Russian statesman prominent during and after the reign of Peter I of Russia. He was the ancestor of all the Tolstoy, including the novelist Leo Tolstoy, Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, , although the Counts Tolstoy-Miloslavsky descend from his elder brother, Ivan....
(1645–1729), statesman
Matvei Andreyevich Tolstoy (? –1763), general-en-chef
Ivan Matveyevich Tolstoy (1746–1808), general-podporuchik
Dmitry Aleksandrovich Tolstoy (1754–1832), governor of Mogilev
Mogilev

Mahilyow is a city in eastern Belarus, about 76 km from the border with Russia's Smolensk Oblast and 105 km from the border with Russia's Bryansk Oblast....
Fyodor Andreyevich Tolstoy (1758–1849), bibliophile and collector
Collecting

The hobby of collecting includes seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever items are of interest to the individual collector....
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Tolstoy (1761–1816), grand master of court ceremonies
Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy
Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy

Count Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy was a Russian general and statesman.Pyotr Tolstoy came from the Oryol branch of the Tolstoy family, his father Alexander Tolstoy was a grandson of Count Pyotr Andreyevich Tolstoy....
(1769–1844), military commander and diplomat
Aleksander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy (1770–1857), full general of infantry
Matvei Feodorovich Tolstoy (1772–1815), senator
Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy
Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy

Count Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy was a Russian artist who served as Vice-President of the Imperial Academy of Arts for forty years . His works ? wax-reliefs, watercolours, medallions, and silhouettes ? are distinguished by a cool detachment and spare and economical classicism....
(1783–1873), artist
Fyodor Ivanovich Tolstoy
Fyodor Ivanovich Tolstoy

Count Fyodor Ivanovich Tolstoy , also known as the "American" was a Russian nobleman from the well-known Tolstoy family. Possessed of an unusual temper, he became famous for his gambling, his passion for duels, and his voyage to North America, where he earned his nickname....
(The American) (1782–1846), adventurer
Pavel Matveyevich Golenischev-Kutuzov-Tolstoy (1800–1883), grandson and heir of Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov
Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov

Prince Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov was the Russian Field Marshal who defeated the Napoleon I of France Grande Arm?e during Napoleon's French invasion of Russia of Russia of 1812, the decisive turning point of the Napoleonic Wars....
Yegor Petrovich Tolstoy
Yegor Tolstoy

Count Yegor Petrovich Tolstoy , was a Russian lieutenant-general, senator, governor of Taganrog, Kaluga and Penza....
(1802–1874), lieutenant-general, governor of Taganrog
Taganrog

Taganrog is a port types of inhabited localities in Russia in Rostov Oblast, Russia, located on the north shore of Taganrog Bay , a few miles west ot the mouth of the Don River ....
and Kaluga
Kaluga

Kaluga is a types of inhabited localities in Russia in western Russia, located on the Oka River 188 km southwest of Moscow. It is the administrative center of Kaluga Oblast....
, senator
Nikolai Matveyevich Tolstoy (1802–1879), full general of infantry, grandfather of Anna Vyrubova
Anna Vyrubova

Anna Alexandrovna Vyrubova, n?e Taneyeva , was a lady-in-waiting, best friend and confidante to Tsaritsa Alexandra of Hesse....
Ivan Matveyevich Tolstoy (1806–1867), grand master of court ceremonies and minister of post service
Feofil Matveyevich Tolstoy (1809–1881), music critic and composer
Mikhail Vladimirovich Tolstoy (1812–1896), writer
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy

Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy was a Russian poet, novelist and dramatist.Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy was born in Saint Petersburg to the famed family of Tolstoy....
(1817–1885), poet
Dmitry Andreyevich Tolstoy (1823–1889), statesman
Yuri Vasiliyevich Tolstoy (1824–1878), statesman and historian
Leo (Lev) Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy, or Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy Tolstoy's further talents as essayist, dramatist and Education reform made him the most influential member of the aristocracy Tolstoy....
(1828–1910), writer and philosopher
Lev Lvovich Tolstoy
Lev Lvovich Tolstoy

Lev Lvovich Tolstoy was a son of Leo Tolstoy and a Russian writer himself.Lev L?vovich, whom his father, Leo Tolstoy, once called ?Leo Tolstoy, Junior,? was himself a fairly well-known and respected belletristic author and playwright in pre-Revolutionary Russia....
(1871–1945), sculptor
Ivan Ivanovich Tolstoy (1880–1954), philologist and academician
Academician

The title Academician denotes a Full Member of an art, literary, or scientific academy.In many countries it is a honorary title."Academician" may also be a functional title and denote a full member of the National National Academy in those countries where the Academy has a strong influence on national scientific life, particularly...
Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi (1883–1945), writer
Alexandra Lvovna (1884–1979), philanthropist
Philanthropist

A philanthropist is someone who engages in philanthropy; that is, someone who donates his or her time, money, and/or reputation to charitable organization....
Nikita Ilyich Tolstoy (1923–1996), philologist
Nikolai Tolstoy
Nikolai Tolstoy

Nikolai Dmitrievich Tolstoy-Miloslavsky is a prominent England historian, author and British House of Commons candidate, who writes under the name Nikolai Tolstoy....
(b. 1935), historian
Tatyana Sukhotina-Tolstaya
Tatyana Sukhotina-Tolstaya

Tatyana Lvovna Sukhotina-Tolstaya Tatyana grew up close to both her mother and father. She early demonstrated a love of painting, and in 1881 she entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where her teachers were Vasily Perov, Illarion Pryanishnikov, and Leonid Pasternak; she also studied with Nikolai Ge....
(1864-1950), Leo Tolstoy's oldest daughter
Tatiana Nikitishna Tolstaya
Tatyana Tolstaya

File:Tatyana Tolstaya.jpgTatyana Tolstaya is a Russian writer, TV host, publicist, novelist, and essayist....
(b. 1951), writer
Viktoria Tolstoy
Viktoria Tolstoy

Viktoria Tolstoy, n?e Kjellberg, , is a Sweden jazz singer. She is the daughter of Erik Kjellberg, and the great-great-granddaughter of writer Leo Tolstoy....
(b. 1974), Swedish jazz singer

Places

Several places in Russia are named to commemorate Leo Tolstoy, e.g., Tolstoy-Yurt, village in Chechnya

Chechnya

The Chechen Republic , or, informally, Chechnya , sometimes referred to as Ichkeria , Chechnia, Chechenia or Nox?iyn, is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia....
.

Tolstoy

The Tolstoys in Russian politics

The Tolstoys in the Napoleonic wars

The Tolstoys in high society

The Tolstoys in Russian literature

People

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