Count Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy (1761–1844) served under Suvorov in wars against Poland and The Ottoman Empire, was made a general-adjutant in 1797, went as an ambassador to Paris in 1807 and tried to persuade Alexander I to prepare for the war against France, without much success though.
In 1803 he participated in the first Russian circumnavigation of the Earth.
Count Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy (1761–1844) served under Suvorov in wars against Poland and The Ottoman Empire, was made a general-adjutant in 1797, went as an ambassador to Paris in 1807 and tried to persuade Alexander I to prepare for the war against France, without much success though.
He fought bravely in the Patriotic War of 1812 but scandalized his family again by marrying a Gypsy singer in 1821.
His crowning achievement was the victory at Kulm (August 30, 1813), which cost him amputation of the left arm.
When the war was over, he quarreled with the Emperor, resigned and spent the rest of his life in Europe. ==In high society== Count Feodor Petrovich Tolstoy (1783–1873), sympathetically mentioned by Pushkin in Eugene Onegin, was one of the most fashionable Russian drawers and painters of the 1820s.
He fought bravely in the Patriotic War of 1812 but scandalized his family again by marrying a Gypsy singer in 1821.
He was appointed Vice-President of the Academy of Arts in 1828.
His early short stories, published in 1910s, were panned by critics for excessive naturalism and wanton eroticism.
Another living member of the family is Count Nikolai Tolstoy-Miloslavsky (born in 1935), a British historian and monarchist, and nominal head of the House of Tolstoy today. ==After the Russian revolution== Some of the members of the Tolstoy family left Russia in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution and the subsequent establishment of the Soviet Union, and many of the Leo Tolstoy's relatives and descendants today live in Sweden, Germany, the United Kingdom, France and the United States.
Most of his reputation declined with that of Socialist Realism, but his children's tale character Buratino retains his strong legacy with the younger audience of Russia and across the former Soviet space, appearing as popular reading, a movie, and a variety of derivative forms. His granddaughter Tatiana Tolstaya (born in 1951) is one of the foremost Russian short story writers.
Leo Tolstoy's last surviving grandchild, Countess Tatiana Tolstoy-Paus, died in 2007 at Herresta manor in Sweden, which is owned by Leo Tolstoy's descendants in the Paus family.
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