Tolstoy marriage (2003)
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Shinjinee
Jan 18, 2008, 8:28:31 AM1/18/08
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Not British peerage, and not particularly recent, but interesting
nevertheless
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/columnists/columnists.html?in_page_id=1772&in_article_id=508472&in_author_id=230
Count Nikolai Tolstoy, historian, stepson and heir of writer Patrick
O'Brian (who disinherited his own children and disowned his own past
when he married up), has a daughter Alexandra who has been married 5
years to a "penniless Cossack" Shamil Galimzyanov per Richard Kay.
According to Alexandra's website, they were married in September 2003
in the Russian Orthodox Cathedral in London. That is four years and
four months, not five years.
Alexandra Tolstoy's photo and author profile
http://www.profilebooks.net/author.php?author_id=44
http://www.alexandratolstoy.com/ (website) - stuff about Alexandra and
Shamil
About the groom (from her website) - aged 44 but looks a lot younger:
Shamil Galimzyanov was a successful show-jumper in the former Soviet
Union. He is a Master of Equine Sport, a very prestigious
qualification, and has worked in almost all equine disciplines. In
February 2005 he began training again as a show-jumper in the Otrada
Equestrian Centre, Moscow. He plans to compete in various competions
in Moscow, and within a couple of years he hopes to become a member of
the Russian show-jumping team.
His father Count Dmitri Tolstoy married 1934 (div 1942) an
Englishwoman Fried Mary Wicksteed (she later married O'Brian)?
http://www.russfamily.net/data/f38.htm
http://www.russfamily.net/data/f31.htm (Richard Patrick Russ, later
Patrick O'Brian)
Nikolai is presented as a descendant of the more famous Leo Tolstoy
(http://209.85.175.104/search?q=cache:2PB9nQh553cJ:www.uvsc.edu/
commorgs/russia/tolstoy/pdf/PRAVDA%2520interview.pdf+%22Nikolai+Tolstoy
%22+Alexandra&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2) which he is not (he never
specifically denies that he is Leo's descendant, although he says at
the end that Alexandra Tolstoy is from a collateral branch). The
Miloslavsky name added by his great-grandfather in 1910 was very
recent (dating from a marriage of his ancestor to a Miloslavsky female
related to the first wife of a Russian tsar). AFAIK, the title of
Count was granted either in 1917 or afterwards (in exile) and was not
formally granted through through the normal processes of Imperial
Russia
The Pravda interview is interesting - Tolstoy claims that he cannot
feel at home in a Protestant materialistic country like England, he
speaks of his interest in Russian monarchism, and his association with
Cossack organizations. I won't comment on those, or his take on the
Aldington B libel trial. (Lord Aldington never received the damages or
the costs, and Tolstoy claimed bankruptcy while his children were
schooled privately and expensively, apparently by friends of the
family).
For more on Tolstoy see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Tolstoy
http://www.uvsc.edu/commorgs/russia/tolstoy/ntFamily.htm
On the fund for Georgina Tolstoy and the four children
http://www.vor.ru/ex2.html
On Tolstoy's relationship with his stepfather
http://www.hmssurprise.org/Related/tolstoy_obrian.html
Source:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/columnists/columnists.html?in_page_id=1772&in_article_id=508472&in_author_id=230
Alex's love story is still happy ever after
When Countess Alexandra Tolstoy tied the knot with a penniless Cossack
peasant, tongues wagged that she would suffer heartbreak to rival Anna
Karenina, the heroine of her distant relative Leo's tragic novel.
But nearly five years since she wed Shamil Galimzyanov, with whom she
fell in love when he worked as her guide on a horseback trek of the
Silk Road, Alexandra, 34, tells me they are blissfully happy and are
thinking of having children.
'The reason it's worked, despite the difference in our backgrounds is
because we share the same interests,' author Alexandra, the daughter
of historian Count Nikolai Tolstoy, tells me at a Russian New Year
party at Harvey Nichols.
But starting a family will not happen immediately because Downe
Houseeducated Alexandra has left showjumper Shamil, 44, in Moscow to
compete in a riding contest while she holds talks with the BBC about a
TV series on horse people.
"The first part is about Yakutia in Siberia and we'll be filming in
minus 50 degrees," she says. "Meanwhile, Shamil is busy with his
horses, so starting a family may have to wait a bit."
nevertheless
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/columnists/columnists.html?in_page_id=1772&in_article_id=508472&in_author_id=230
Count Nikolai Tolstoy, historian, stepson and heir of writer Patrick
O'Brian (who disinherited his own children and disowned his own past
when he married up), has a daughter Alexandra who has been married 5
years to a "penniless Cossack" Shamil Galimzyanov per Richard Kay.
According to Alexandra's website, they were married in September 2003
in the Russian Orthodox Cathedral in London. That is four years and
four months, not five years.
Alexandra Tolstoy's photo and author profile
http://www.profilebooks.net/author.php?author_id=44
http://www.alexandratolstoy.com/ (website) - stuff about Alexandra and
Shamil
About the groom (from her website) - aged 44 but looks a lot younger:
Shamil Galimzyanov was a successful show-jumper in the former Soviet
Union. He is a Master of Equine Sport, a very prestigious
qualification, and has worked in almost all equine disciplines. In
February 2005 he began training again as a show-jumper in the Otrada
Equestrian Centre, Moscow. He plans to compete in various competions
in Moscow, and within a couple of years he hopes to become a member of
the Russian show-jumping team.
His father Count Dmitri Tolstoy married 1934 (div 1942) an
Englishwoman Fried Mary Wicksteed (she later married O'Brian)?
http://www.russfamily.net/data/f38.htm
http://www.russfamily.net/data/f31.htm (Richard Patrick Russ, later
Patrick O'Brian)
Nikolai is presented as a descendant of the more famous Leo Tolstoy
(http://209.85.175.104/search?q=cache:2PB9nQh553cJ:www.uvsc.edu/
commorgs/russia/tolstoy/pdf/PRAVDA%2520interview.pdf+%22Nikolai+Tolstoy
%22+Alexandra&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2) which he is not (he never
specifically denies that he is Leo's descendant, although he says at
the end that Alexandra Tolstoy is from a collateral branch). The
Miloslavsky name added by his great-grandfather in 1910 was very
recent (dating from a marriage of his ancestor to a Miloslavsky female
related to the first wife of a Russian tsar). AFAIK, the title of
Count was granted either in 1917 or afterwards (in exile) and was not
formally granted through through the normal processes of Imperial
Russia
The Pravda interview is interesting - Tolstoy claims that he cannot
feel at home in a Protestant materialistic country like England, he
speaks of his interest in Russian monarchism, and his association with
Cossack organizations. I won't comment on those, or his take on the
Aldington B libel trial. (Lord Aldington never received the damages or
the costs, and Tolstoy claimed bankruptcy while his children were
schooled privately and expensively, apparently by friends of the
family).
For more on Tolstoy see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Tolstoy
http://www.uvsc.edu/commorgs/russia/tolstoy/ntFamily.htm
On the fund for Georgina Tolstoy and the four children
http://www.vor.ru/ex2.html
On Tolstoy's relationship with his stepfather
http://www.hmssurprise.org/Related/tolstoy_obrian.html
Source:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/columnists/columnists.html?in_page_id=1772&in_article_id=508472&in_author_id=230
Alex's love story is still happy ever after
When Countess Alexandra Tolstoy tied the knot with a penniless Cossack
peasant, tongues wagged that she would suffer heartbreak to rival Anna
Karenina, the heroine of her distant relative Leo's tragic novel.
But nearly five years since she wed Shamil Galimzyanov, with whom she
fell in love when he worked as her guide on a horseback trek of the
Silk Road, Alexandra, 34, tells me they are blissfully happy and are
thinking of having children.
'The reason it's worked, despite the difference in our backgrounds is
because we share the same interests,' author Alexandra, the daughter
of historian Count Nikolai Tolstoy, tells me at a Russian New Year
party at Harvey Nichols.
But starting a family will not happen immediately because Downe
Houseeducated Alexandra has left showjumper Shamil, 44, in Moscow to
compete in a riding contest while she holds talks with the BBC about a
TV series on horse people.
"The first part is about Yakutia in Siberia and we'll be filming in
minus 50 degrees," she says. "Meanwhile, Shamil is busy with his
horses, so starting a family may have to wait a bit."
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