Daughter
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Alexandra Lvovna Tolstaya (1884–1979) - the youngest daughter of L.N. Tolstoy, writer, publicist, public figure, creator of the Yasnaya Polyana Museum, one of the founders of the international “Committee for Assistance to All Russian People in Need,” named in honor of her father’s memory as the “Tolstoy Foundation,” a large and extraordinary personality. The volume includes both parts of A.L.’s memoirs. Tolstoy. The book “Life with Father,” published for the first time in Russia, reliably depicts the life of the Tolstoy family and shows complex intra-family relationships. Throughout the last years of the writer’s life, his youngest daughter was his confidant; he was the only one to whom he revealed the secret of his departure from Yasnaya Polyana; he died in her arms. The book “Daughter” continues the story about the fate of this amazing woman: three years on the fronts of the First World War, the rank of colonel medical service, two St. Georges, and then the revolution, Lubyanka, one of the first Soviet concentration camps, liberation thanks to the petition of Yasnaya Polyana peasants, emigration, life in Japan, in the USA, work on organizing the “Tolstoy Foundation”... The book has many memorable characters: major figures of the Russian emigration, and foreign political and public figures, and the party elite of the Soviet state.
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- Name of the Author
- Александра Толстая Львовна
- Language
- Russian