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Number of Generations from Indris

15 Peter Andreyevich Tolstoy, the first Count (died 1729) 16 Ivan Petrovich (died 1728) 17 Andrey Ivaonvich (died 1803) 18 Ilya Andreyevich, Governor of Kazan (died 1820) 19 Aleksandra, married to Count Osten-Saken. Nikolay (died 1837) 19 Pelageya, married V.P. Yushkov. Ilya (died childless) 20 Nikolay (born 1823). Sergey (born 1826). Dmitriy (born 1827). Lev (born 1828). Marie (born 1830).[4]

The Counts Tolstoy are known in many branches of social activity. It would probably interest the reader to know the degree of relationship which some of these bear to Tolstoy. For example, let us take Feodor Petrovich Tolstoy, the well-known artist, medallist, and vice-president of the Imperial Academy of Arts, his nephew the poet, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, and the ex-minister Dmitriy Andreyevich Tolstoy, well known for his reactionary measures. These three members of the Tolstoy family were distantly related to our Tolstoy, their common ancestor being Ivan Petrovich Tolstoy, son of the first Count Tolstoy, Peter Andreyevich, who died with his father in exile at the Solovetsky Convent.^[5]

I ought her to mention Theodore Tolstoy, and original man, called the American. He was known for his very unusual adventures, and the following words in Griboyedov's comedy, called "Come to Grief through being too Clever," refer to him: "Exiled to Kamchatka, he returned an Aleoute." Tolstoy speaks of him in his reminiscences of his childhood, and it was his individuality which partly suggested the character of Dolokhov in War and Peace. He was Tolstoy's first cousin once removed.