Word: alexey
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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Died. Count Leo Tolstoy, 76, son of the world-famed Russian novelist (War and Peace, Anna Karenina) and distant kinsman of the late, wealthy, best-selling novelist Alexey Tolstoy (Peter the Great), expatriate since his banishment in 1918 because of anti-Bolshevik editorials in his newspaper Vestocha, sculptor and writer, frequent U.S. visitor and lecturer; an Hälsingborg, Sweden...
...Died. Alexey Nicholayevich Tolstoy, 62, long-haired, beret-wearing, best-selling Russian writer (Peter the Great, Darkness and Dawn), remote kinsman of the late great Leo Tolstoy; from a lung ailment; in Moscow. A Tsarist count, he renounced his title to become the Soviet's most enthusiastic propagandist and richest citizen (estimated fortune...