An interesting column appeared in the New York Times on November 6, 2016, the Sunday before the presidential election. Its author, Nikolai Tolstoy, an Englishman of Russian ancestry and a distant ...

Leo(Lyovochka)Tolstoy was the fourth son of Count Nikolai Tolstoy, a Russian nobleman whose family had been elevated and enriched during the reigns of Peter I and Catherine II. He hardly knew his ...

AN EMINENT historian once remarked that all the noble Russian families elevated during the reigns of Peter I and Catherine II had degenerated, with the exception of the Tolstoys. The assertion would ...

OXFORD, England — From the comfort of his country estate in Oxford, a distant relative of the Russian literary giant Tolstoy says he has the perfect solution for what ails the United States. The ...

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