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Tatiana Tolstoy-Paus

Tatiana Tolstoy-Paus

Russian-Swedish socialite and Tolstoy

Tatiana "Tanja" Tolstoy-Paus[lower-alpha 1] (born Countess Tatyana Lvovna Tolstaya, Russian: Графиня Татья́на Льво́вна Толста́я; 20 September 1914 – 29 January 2007) was a Russian-Swedish countess, socialite and a member of the Tolstoy family. She was the last surviving grandchild of Leo Tolstoy.

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She was born on her grandfather's estate Yasnaya Polyana, the daughter of novelist and sculptor Lev Lvovich Tolstoy and his Swedish wife Dora Westerlund. As a result of the Russian Revolution, the family fled to Sweden in 1917. In 1940 she married Norwegian-born estate owner and former competitive skier Herman Paus, the owner of the major Herresta estate outside Stockholm.[1] Her father-in-law Karl L. Paus was a first cousin of playwright Henrik Ibsen. They had four children.[2] She was active in regional politics and as a philanthropist and socialite in Swedish society.[3][4][5]

Her great-niece is jazz singer Viktoria Tolstoy.[2]

Notes

  1. The spelling Tatiana Tolstoy was her official name in Sweden, although Tolstoy is a masculine form of the name in the original Russian; the feminine form is Tolstaya

References

  1. [1]
    Sven T. Kjellberg, S. Artur Svensson, Slott och herresäten i Sverige: Halland. Bohuslän. Blekinge. p. 240. 1968.
  2. [2]
    Nikolai Puzin, The Lev Tolstoy House-Museum In Yasnaya Polyana, 1998
  3. [3]
    "En resa att se fram emot," Eskilstuna Kuriren, 8 June 2002
  4. [4]
    "Leo Tolstoj är Tanjas farfar," Eskilstuna Kuriren, 5 August 2003
  5. [5]
    "Tanja Paus och Sonja Ceder till minne," Svenska Dagbladet, 11 March 2007


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