Tolstoy (disambiguation)

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Tolstoy (Russian Толстой "thick, fat") - a Russian nobility family name.

The family name is shared by three major Russian writers of the 19th-20th centuries, of whom two also share first names Alexei, and one of these has the same patronymic Nikolaevich (Nicholas's son) with the best known of them - Lev or Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910).

Tolstoy (Rus. masculine), Tolstaya (Rus. feminine), or Tolstoye may also refer to:

People

• Tolstoy (family), Nobility with origins in the 15th century
• Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1883–1945) 'Comrade Count', writer of science fiction and historical novels.
• Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817–1875), poet and writer of historical dramas, second cousin of Leo Tolstoy.
• Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy (1770–1857), soldier, later military consultant to Ibrahim-pasha in Egypt
• Alexandra Tolstaya (1884–1970), youngest daughter of Leo Tolstoy and founder of Tolstoy Foundation
• Alexandra Tolstoy (born 1974), born Alexandra Tolstoy-Miloslavsky, British equine adventurer, broadcaster and businesswoman
• Dmitry Tolstoy (1823–1889), Russian statesman and historian
• Ekaterina Tolstaya (1939–2005), Russian artist, granddaughter of Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy
• Fyodor Tolstoy (disambiguation)
  • Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy (1783–1873), Russian artist
  • Fyodor Ivanovich Tolstoy (The American) (1782–1846), Fyodor Petrovich's cousin, Russian adventurer and bonvivant
• Ilya Tolstoy (1866–1933), writer and son of Leo Tolstoy
• Ilya Andreyevich Tolstoy (1903–1970), U.S. Army Colonel, F. D. Roosevelt's envoy in Tibet, grandson of Leo Tolstoy
• Natalia Tolstaya (1943–2010), writer and translator
• Nikolai Tolstoy (born 1935), English-Russian author and former parliamentary candidate of the UK Independence Party.
• Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy (1769–1844), general and statesman
• Pyotr Andreyevich Tolstoy (1645–1729), statesman and diplomat
• Sophia Tolstaya (1844–1919), diarist and wife of Leo Tolstoy.
• Svetlana Tolstaya (born 1971), Kazakh race walker
• Tatyana Tolstaya (born 1951), Russian writer and TV host
• Viktoria Tolstoy (born 1974), Swedish jazz singer
• Yegor Tolstoy (1802–1874), Russian lieutenant-general, senator, and governor
• Tatyana Sukhotina-Tolstaya (1864 – 1950), Russian painter and memoirist, oldest daughter of Leo Tolstoy.

Other uses

• Tolstoy House, a building in St. Petersburg, Russia
• Tolstoy Cup, an annual student football match in England
• Tolstoy Foundation
• Tolstoi, Manitoba, Canada
• Tolstoy, South Dakota, US
• Moscow Conference (1944), code name Tolstoy

See also

• Lev-Tolstovsky (disambiguation)