Nikolai Tolstoy
Nikolai Tolstoy | |
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Count Tolstoy on Hart Fell, Scotland, 2015 | |
| Head of the House of Tolstoy | |
| Preceded by | Count Dmitri Tolstoy |
| Chancellor of the IML | |
| Assumed office 1987 | |
| Preceded by | Kenneth McLennan Hay |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 23 June 1935 London, England |
| Political party | Conservative (1991–96) UKIP (1996–present) |
| Spouse | Georgina Brown |
| Children | Countess Alexandra Countess Anastasia Count Dimitri Countess Xenia |
| Parent(s) | Count Dimitri Tolstoy Mary Wicksteed |
| Alma mater | Trinity College Dublin |
| Profession | Historian, writer |
| Awards | Adèle Mellen Prize (2009) |
Count Nikolai Dmitrievich Tolstoy-Miloslavsky FRSL (Russian: Граф Николай Дмитриевич Толстой-Милославский; born 23 June 1935), better known as Count Nikolai Tolstoy, is a British historian and writer. He is a former parliamentary candidate of the UK Independence Party and is the current nominal head of the House of Tolstoy, an aristocratic Russian family.