Nikolai Tolstoy
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Nikolai Dmitrievich Miloslavsky Count of Tolstoy |
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Count Tolstoy on Hart Fell Mountain, Scotland, 2015
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| Chancellor of the IML | |
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Assumed office 1987 |
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| Preceded by | Kenneth McLennan Hay |
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23 June 1935 London, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
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Conservative Party (1991–1996) UK Independence Party (1996–present) |
| Spouse(s) | Georgina Brown |
| Children | 4 children |
| Alma mater | University of Dublin |
| Profession | Historian, writer |
| Religion | Russian Orthodoxy |
Count Nikolai Dmitrievich Tolstoy-Miloslavsky (Russian: Николай Дмитриевич Толстой-Милославский; born 23 June 1935) is an Anglo-Russian author who writes under the name Nikolai Tolstoy. A member of the Tolstoy family, he is a former parliamentary candidate of the UK Independence Party.
Born in England in 1935, Tolstoy is of part Russian descent and is the stepson of the author Patrick O'Brian. On his upbringing he has written:
Like thousands of Russians in the present century, I was born and brought up in another country and was only able to enter the land of my ancestors as a visitor in later years. It was nevertheless a very Russian upbringing, one which impressed on me the unusual nature of my inheritance. I was baptised in the Russian Orthodox Church and I worshipped in it. I prayed at night the familiar words Oche nash, attended parties where little Russian boys and girls spoke a mixture of languages, and felt myself by manner and temperament to be different than my English friends. I think I was the most affected by those melancholy and evocative Russian homes where my elders, for the most part people of great charm and eccentricity, lived surrounded by the relics – ikons, Easter eggs, portraits of Tsar and Tsaritsa, family photographs, and émigré newspapers – of that mysterious, far-off land of wolves, boyars, and snow-forests of Ivan Bilibin's famous illustrations to Russian fairy-tales. Somewhere there was a real Russian land to which we all belonged, but it was shut away over distant seas and space of years.
Tolstoy holds dual British and Russian citizenship. He was educated at Wellington College, Sandhurst and Trinity College, Dublin.
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