Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy is considered the master of Russian literature. Interesting facts from the biography of this writer are often learned at school. But a lot of new things can be learned about this person even now, because the most unknown from Tolstoy's biography is discovered only over the years.
1.Interesting facts from the biography of Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy confirm the fact that he played cards from a young age.
2. The marriage of Tolstoy's parents broke up when he was 6 weeks old.
3. Throughout his life, Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy tried to find the meaning of life. And only in adulthood did he find him. This is good.
4. The writer was educated at home.
5. Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy died on his own estate, the Red Horn. There he was buried.
6. Tolstoy knew how to unbend horseshoes and use his finger to drive nails into the wall.
7.Alexey Konstantinovich Tolstoy was fascinated by spiritualism.
8. More than once in his life this writer went on a bear hunt.
9. Tolstoy has been abroad since he was 10 years old.
10. Alexey Konstantinovich Tolstoy got a huge impression during his trip to Italy.
11. It was in French that Tolstoy first began to write.
12.Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy during the Crimean War tried to create a militia.
13. Tolstoy did not take part in the hostilities, because he fell ill with typhus.
14. The leading theme of the works of Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy was precisely religion.
15.Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy was the second cousin of Leo Tolstoy.
16. As a child, Tolstoy lived in luxury.
17. It was the habit of writing at night that affected Tolstoy's health.
18.Tolstoy's heiress after his death was his wife Sofya Andreevna.
19.Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy knew Goethe. Acquaintance with him happened in Germany.
20. The only teacher of Alexei Tolstoy as a man was his uncle Alexei Alexeevich.
21. In childhood, Tolstoy was too spoiled.
22. Alexei Tolstoy did not consider himself a Slavophile personally. He was a staunch Westerner.
23. The first love feelings were Alexei Konstantinovich for Elena Meshcherskaya, whom her mother did not give her blessing for marriage.
24. Alexey Konstantinovich Tolstoy knew how to forgive and regret.
25. Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy did not have common children with his wife Sophia, and therefore they raised an adopted child: Andrey's nephew.
26. For 12 years, Tolstoy lived with Sophia in a civil marriage.
27. Tolstoy got married with Sophia only after her husband had divorced.
28. Tolstoy was anxious about prayers.
29 In the 1840s, Tolstoy had to lead the life of a socialite.
30. Tolstoy was considered a joker and a prankster.
31. In the last years of his life, Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy suffered from a disease associated with nerves, and therefore he killed pain with morphine.
32. Tolstoy's father was Count Konstantin Petrovich.
33. From the age of 8, Tolstoy was in the “circle of children” with whom he spent Sundays.
34. Only from the age of 25 did the works of Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy begin to be published.
35. People saw the first poems of Tolstoy when he was 38 years old.
36. Tolstoy's mother showed jealousy towards him.
37 In the Red Horn and in the Pustynka, Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy really felt happy.
38. Wealth, education and connections came to Tolstoy from the side of his maternal uncle.
39. After the death of Tolstoy's mother Anna Alekseevna, tens of thousands of acres of land, thousands of serfs, palaces, marble statues and antique furniture passed to him.
40. Alexei Tolstoy hid from the unceremonious relatives of his beloved wife and domestic bustle on trips abroad.
41. Even doctors from Germany tried to determine the cause of Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy's illness.
42. Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy died from an overdose of morphine, with which he was saving from pain.
43. Tolstoy's wife knew more than 10 foreign languages, and could also quote Goethe.
44. Alexey Konstantinovich Tolstoy lived for 58 years.
45. Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy was the great-grandson of Kirill Razumovsky.
46. Tolstoy often thought about death.
47. Alexey Konstantinovich Tolstoy was an opponent of repression.
48. Lenin liked Tolstoy's work very much.
49. Tolstoy has always preferred historical ballads to romantic ballads.
50. Aleksey Tolstoy's favorite era was precisely Kievan Rus.
