Ka cika wannan jumla: An haifi Tolstaya a Leningrad a cikin dangin marubuta. Kakan mahaifinta, Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoy, ya kasance marubucin almara na kimiyya, kuma ɗan Count Nikolay Alexandrovich Tolstoy (1849<unk>1900) da Alexandra Leontievna Turgeneva (1854<unk>1906), dangin
Decembrist Nikolay Turgenev da kuma marubucin Ivan Turgenev. Mahaifiyar mahaifiyar Tolstaya ita ce mawallafin Natalia Krandievskaya. Mikhail Lozinsky (1886-1955), kakan mahaifiyarta, ya kasance mai fassarar adabi da aka san shi da fassarar "The Divine Comedy" na Dante. 'Yar'uwar Tolstaya, Natalia ma marubuciya ce. Danta, Artemy Lebedev, shi ne wanda ya kafa-mai mallakar Art. Lebedev Studio, wani kamfanin tsara yanar gizo na Rasha.