Lev Lvovich Tolstoy
Count Lev Lvovich Tolstoy (1 June (Old style: 20 May) 1869 – 18 October 1945) was a Russian writer, and the fourth child and third son of Leo Tolstoy. • Illustration — Lev Lvovich Tolstoy Lev Lvovich, whom his father once called "Leo Tolstoy, Junior" was a fairly well known and respected belletristic author and playwright in pre-Revolutionary Russia. Although he had enjoyed good relations with his parents, by the 1890s Lev Lvovich had come to doubt his father's religious and moral teachings, eventually becoming an ardent monarchist and Russian patriot. While living in exile after the Russian Revolution in Sweden, he became a vocal and sometimes harsh critic of his father's teachings.
Also recorded as Lev Lvovitj, Greve Tolstoy · Lev Tolstoy
Lev Lvovich Tolstoy
Lev L. Tolstoj. Il preludio di Chopin. Editori Riuniti. · Public domain
- Born
- 1869. · Yasnaya Polyana.
- Died
- 1945. · Helsingborg.
- Nationality
- Russian Empire.
- Occupation
- writer, sculptor and playwright.
- Education
- Polivanovskaia Gymnasium.
- Languages
- Russian.
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Count Lev Lvovich Tolstoy (1 June (Old style: 20 May) 1869 – 18 October 1945) was a Russian writer, and the fourth child and third son of Leo Tolstoy. • Illustration — Lev Lvovich Tolstoy Lev Lvovich, whom his father once called "Leo Tolstoy, Junior" was a fairly well known and respected belletristic author and playwright in pre-Revolutionary Russia. Although he had enjoyed good relations with his parents, by the 1890s Lev Lvovich had come to doubt his father's religious and moral teachings, eventually becoming an ardent monarchist and Russian patriot. While living in exile after the Russian Revolution in Sweden, he became a vocal and sometimes harsh critic of his father's teachings.
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He continued to write there, but also received attention as an artist and sculptor: he participated in numerous exhibits, where his busts of his father, Benito Mussolini, and Herbert Hoover brought renown. He died in Helsingborg, Sweden on 18 October 1945. He is buried in the cemetery of Sireköpinge Church.
He also worked under the name L'vov. The authorities additionally record the headings Lev Lvovitj, Greve Tolstoy and Lev Tolstoy. His recorded language was Russian. He was the child of Leo Tolstoy and Sophia Tolstaya. He married Signe Dorothea Johanna Westerlund. 2 children are recorded: Tatyana Tolstoy-Paus and Nikita Tolstoy.
Leo Tolstoy and his son Leo Tolstoy at Kozlova Zaseka railway station (year 1909).
Музей «Козлова Засека»
Лев Львович Толстой в 1878 году. Тула
Ф. И. Ходасевич · http: dt=1922 q= page=6
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1869
Lev Lvovich Tolstoy born at Yasnaya Polyana.
1945
Lev Lvovich Tolstoy died at Helsingborg.
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