Tolstoy (family)

The Tolstoy (Russian Толстые ) are a well-known Russian Counts.

History

According to ancient histories, it could come Indri, a mid-14th century based in Chernihiv About settlers from the Holy Roman Empire, which adopted the Russian Orthodox faith and converted the name Leonti. His great-grandson Andrei Kharitonovich should be moved from Chernihiv to Moscow in the 15th century and there of Grand Prince Vasily III. have ( in Old Russian language equivalent to " the Fat" ) received the nickname Tolstoy.

One of his descendants, the Pyotr Andreyevich Tolstoy statesman (1645-1729), served at the Imperial Court under Peter the Great. He brought it to high government posts and was from 1710 to 1713 Tsar ambassador in Constantinople Opel. In 1717 he was involved in the arrest and conviction of the rebellious son of Peter the Great, of Tsarevich Alexei. This earned him the title of Count in 1724. 1727, however, after the coronation of Peter II, who was Alexei's son, this revenge on Tolstoy, but he knew him by the title of nobility and exiled him to the Solovetsky monastery, where he died two years later.

Rehabilitated 1760 Elizabeth Petrovna, the Tolstoy and gave Peter Andrejewitschs grandson, Andrei Ivanovich Tolstoy, the great-grandfather of the poet Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, the title and part of the country goods back. As this wealth has nine siblings Andreis and any of their children had to share among themselves, the family of Tolstoy belonged to his time in Russia to the poorer nobility. Only a portion of the descendants Andrei Ivanovitch could improve their material situation by marrying into richer families later.

The estates of Tolstoy were spread across several provinces of central Russia, including in Tula, Kursk and Oryol. One of the best known of which is still Yasnaya Polyana near the city of Tula.

Known representatives (selection)

  • Pyotr Andreyevich Tolstoy (1645-1729), statesman
  • Fyodor Ivanovich Tolstoy (1782-1846) nicknamed the Americans; Great-grandson of Pyotr Andreyevich
  • Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy (1783-1873), artist; Cousin of Fyodor Ivanovich
  • Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910), writer
  • Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817-1875), writer
  • Alexei Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1883-1945), writer
  • Tatjana Nikititschna Tolstaja (* 1951), writer
Russian nobility Guberniya Tula Oblast Oryol Oblast Tula, Russia Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy Tatyana Tolstaya
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