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Apr 7, 2020 · It was an idyllic life, beyond anyone's imagination. Countess Alexandra Tolstoy, an aristocratic English woman, had her own fairy tale come true when she fell in love with the man of her dreams in ...
Here, in just 10 days, Alexandra turned sorry student dig into a warm and comfortable home for her family. Her love of colour, texture and pattern is apparent at every turn. A bold Kyrgyz shyrdak rug, picked up on her travels, sits happily among a chorus of antique fabrics, carefully crafted Orthodox icons and folk art.
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Apr 26, 2020 · Countess Alexandra Tolstoy is the daughter of Count Nikolai Tolstoy-Miloslavsky, the current head of the noble House of Tolstoy, distantly related to Leo Tolstoy, and the former partner of Sergei Pugachev, a Russian oligarch who was once worth $15 billion and was amongst Putin’s inner circle. Nicknamed ‘Putin’s Banker’, Pugachev owned a ...
Alexandra Tolstoy was the youngest daughter and 12th of 13 children of Sonya Tolstoy and Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy, the celebrated Russian author. She was born on July 1, 1883, at her parents' Russian estate, Yasnaya Polyana, in Tula province, about 130 miles south of Moscow. Shortly before her birth, Leo had almost stopped writing novels ...
Sep 26, 2021 · Alexandra Tolstoy 26 September 2021 • 5:00pm. Countess Alexandra Tolstoy on holiday in Mykonos. Like everyone else, 2020 was truly my annus horribilis – my travel business, leading riding ...
I spent a month on Mount Elbrus, I went to the Crimea and, for the first time, I visited Yasnaya Ployana [the former home of Leo Tolstoy]. While there, I met my relative Vladimir Tolstoy, who was then the director of the house museum. After that, we regularly travelled to the estate for gatherings of Tolstoy family members from all over the world.
Jul 2, 1974 · One of them—frail and mortal, her mind brimming with memories expressed and joys inexpressible—was 90 years old yesterday. Alexandra Tolstoy, the author's only surviving child, was feted after ...
