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Name
  
Alexandra Tolstaya

Movies
  
Martin the Cobbler

Role
  
Novelist

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Born
  
18 July 1884 (
1884-07-18
)

Died
  
September 26, 1979, Valley Cottage, Clarkstown, New York, United States

Parents
  
Leo Tolstoy, Sophia Tolstaya

Books
  
Tolstoy, a life of my father

Siblings
  
Ilya Tolstoy, Tatiana Sukhotina-Tolstaya

Similar People
  
Leo Tolstoy, Sophia Tolstaya, Ilya Tolstoy, Sergei Lvovich Tolstoy, Lev Lvovich Tolstoy

Countess Alexandra (Sasha) Lvovna Tolstaya (Russian: aleksandra L'vovna Tolstaya; 18 July 1884 – 26 September 1979) was the youngest daughter and secretary of the noted Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy.

Although Alexandra Lvovna 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. For her courage, the Russian government awarded her three St George Medals and the rank of colonel.

The Bolsheviks imprisoned Alexandra in 1920, but she was installed as the director of the Tolstoy museum in Yasnaya Polyana the next year. She left the Soviet Union in 1929, and settled in the United States, where she founded the Tolstoy Foundation. She became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1941.

In later years, she helped many Russian intellectuals (notably Vladimir Nabokov and Sergei Rachmaninoff) to escape Bolshevik persecution and to settle in America.

References

Alexandra Tolstaya Wikipedia


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