| Alexandra Lvovna Tolstaya |
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| 1884 births | |
| tolstoy, alexandra | |
| 1979 deaths | |
| russian nobility | |
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Although Lvovna shared with her father the doctrine of Non-violence , she felt it was her duty to take part in the events of World War I . For her courage, the Russian government awarded her three St George Medals and the rank of colonel. The Bolsheviks imprisoned Alexandra in 1920 , but she was installed as the director of the Tolstoy museum in Yasnaya Polyana the next year. She left Russia in 1929 , and settled in the United States , where she founded the Tolstoy Foundation . In later years, she helped many Russian intellectuals (notably Vladimir Nabokov and Sergei Rachmaninoff ) to escape Nazi persecution and to settle in America. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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