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Tolstoy: Encyclopedia Ii - Tolstoy - The Tolstoys In Russian Politics
According to a much later genealogical fable, Andrey Kharitonovich Tolstoy was in turn a great-grandson of some Indris who was "a man of ...
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Tolstoy: Encyclopedia Ii - Tolstoy - The Tolstoys In Russian Literature
Many of the Tolstoys devoted their spare time to literary pursuits. For instance, Count Alexei Konstantinovich (1817–75) was a courtier...
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Tolstoy: Encyclopedia Ii - Tolstoy - The Tolstoys In The Napoleonic Wars
Two members of the family were active during the Napoleonic wars. Count Peter Alexandrovich (1761–1844) served under Suvorov in wars ag...
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Tolstoy: Encyclopedia Ii - Tolstoy - The Tolstoys In High Society
Count Feodor Petrovich Tolstoy (1783–1873), sympathetically mentioned by Pushkin in Eugene Onegin, was one of the most fashionable Russ...
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