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Countess Alexandra Nikolaevna Tolstoy-Miloslavsky FRGS (born 14 July 1973) [1] [2] is a British equine adventurer, broadcaster, socialite, and businesswoman. She has made several long distance journeys on horses which have provided the material for television documentaries, books, and talks.
Oral history interview with Alexandra Tolstoy 1966 on the subject of Soviet Union History - Revolution, 1917-1921; Bio at Tolstoy Foundation web site; Picture of Alexandra Tolstoy in Valley Cottage [dead link ] The human spirit is free (in Russian), Alexandra Tolstaya's appearances by Radio Svoboda's microphone. Introduction by Ivan Tolstoy ...
Lord Weardale married Countess Alexandra Tolstoy (1856–1934), granddaughter of the German-born Russian Count Georg von Cancrin and widow of Count Tolstoy, a relative of the writer Leo Tolstoy, in 1877. [2] They lived at The Wodehouse near Wombourne, where they entertained William Ewart Gladstone. [7]
Alexandra is believed to have been born in Moscow to Count Andrei Andreevich Tolstoy (1771–1844) and Praskovia Vasilievna (née Barykova; 1796–1879). She had two brothers, Ilya (1813–1879) and Vasily (1813–1841), who devoted themselves to the military, and two sisters, Elizaveta (1815–1867) and Sophia (1824–1895), who like herself would remain unmarried.
The Tolstoy Foundation is a non-profit charitable and philanthropic organization. It was established on April 26, 1939, by Alexandra Tolstaya , the youngest daughter of the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy , and her friend Tatiana Schaufuss.
Lady Buckhurst was born Countess Xenia Nikolaievna Tolstoy-Miloslavsky in 1980 in Yeovil to Count Nikolai Tolstoy and Georgia Brown. [1] [2] Her father is a former prospective parliamentary candidate for the UK Independence Party, Vice President of the Royal Stuart Society, and nominal head of the Tolstoy family.
Aylmer Maude (28 March 1858 – 25 August 1938) and Louise Maude (1855–1939) were English translators of Leo Tolstoy's works, and Aylmer Maude also wrote his friend Tolstoy's biography, The Life of Tolstoy. After living many years in Russia the Maudes spent the rest of their lives in England translating Tolstoy's writing and promoting public ...
Alexandra Tolstoy, daughter of the great novelist Leo Tolstoy wrote in her father's biography: "From time to time he posed – a tiring obligation – for painters and sculptors: for Repin, Pasternak who did a study of the family, Aronson, and Paolo Troubetzkoy. Troubetzkoy, a Russian educated in Italy, did some splendid little statues of ...