Tolstoy (disambiguation)
# Tolstoy (disambiguation)

Tolstoy (Russian "Толстой") is a noble Russian family name derived from the Russian adjective "то́лстый" ("thick, stout, fat").

The family name is shared by three major Russian writers of the 19th-20th centuries, of whom two also share first names Alexei, and one of these has the same patronymic Nikolaevich (Nicholas's son) with the best known of them - Lev or Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910).

Tolstoy (Rus. masculine), Tolstaya (Rus. feminine), or Tolstoye may also refer to:

## People

* Tolstoy (family), Nobility with origins in the 15th century
* Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1883–1945) 'Comrade Count', writer of science fiction and historical novels.
* Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817–1875), poet and writer of historical dramas, second cousin of Leo Tolstoy.
* Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy (1770–1857), soldier, later military consultant to Ibrahim-pasha in Egypt
* Alexandra Tolstaya (1884–1970), youngest daughter of Leo Tolstoy and founder of Tolstoy Foundation
* Alexandra Tolstoy (born 1974), born Alexandra Tolstoy-Miloslavsky, British equine adventurer, broadcaster and businesswoman
* Dmitry Tolstoy (1823–1889), Russian statesman and historian
* Fyodor Tolstoy (disambiguation)
   * Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy (1783–1873), Russian artist
   * Fyodor Ivanovich Tolstoy (The American) (1782–1846), Fyodor Petrovich's cousin, Russian adventurer and bonvivant
* Ilya Tolstoy (1866–1933), writer and son of Leo Tolstoy
* Ilya Andreyevich Tolstoy (1903–1970), U.S. Army Colonel, F. D. Roosevelt's envoy in Tibet, grandson of Leo Tolstoy
* Natalia Tolstaya (1943–2010), writer and translator
* Nikolai Tolstoy (born 1935), English-Russian author and former parliamentary candidate of the UK Independence Party.
* Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy (1769–1844), general and statesman
* Pyotr Andreyevich Tolstoy (1645–1729), statesman and diplomat
* Sophia Tolstaya (1844–1919), diarist and wife of Leo Tolstoy.
* Svetlana Tolstaya (born 1971), Kazakh race walker
* Tatyana Tolstaya (born 1951), Russian writer and TV host, mother of Artemy Lebedev, Russian designer and businessman (born 1974)
* Viktoria Tolstoy (born 1974), Swedish jazz singer
* Yegor Tolstoy (1802–1874), Russian lieutenant-general, senator, and governor
* Tatyana Sukhotina-Tolstaya (1864 – 1950), Russian painter and memoirist, oldest daughter of Leo Tolstoy.
* Pyotr Olegovich Tolstoy (born 1974), Russian journalist and statesman

## Other uses

* Tolstoy House, a building in St. Petersburg, Russia
* Tolstoy Cup, an annual student football match in England
* Tolstoy Foundation
* Tolstoi, Manitoba, Canada
* Tolstoy, South Dakota, US
* Moscow Conference (1944), code name Tolstoy
