Tatiana Tolstoy-Paus
Tatiana "Tanja" Tolstoy-Paus[lower-alpha 1] (20 September 1914 – 29 January 2007) (née Countess Tatyana Lvovna Tolstaya; Russian: Графиня Татья́на Льво́вна Толста́я) was a Russian-Swedish countess, socialite and a member of the Tolstoy family. She was the last surviving grandchild of Leo Tolstoy.
Countess Tatiana Tolstoy-Paus | |
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| Born | Tatiana Tolstoy 20 September 1914 Yasnaya Polyana, Russian Empire |
| Died | 29 January 2007 (aged 92) Herresta, Sweden |
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| Spouse(s) | Herman Paus |
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She was born on her grandfather's estate Yasnaya Polyana, the daughter of novelist and sculptor Lev Lvovich Tolstoy and his Swedish wife Dora Westerlund. As a result of the Russian revolution, the family fled to Sweden in 1917. In 1940 she married Norwegian-born estate owner and former competitive skier Herman Paus, the owner of the major Herresta estate outside Stockholm.[1] Her father-in-law Karl L. Paus was a first cousin of playwright Henrik Ibsen. They had four children.[2] She was active in regional politics and as a philanthropist and socialite in Swedish society.[3][4][5]
Her great-niece is jazz singer Viktoria Tolstoy.[2]
Notes
- The spelling Tatiana Tolstoy was her official name in Sweden, although Tolstoy is a masculine form of the name in the original Russian; the feminine form is Tolstaya
References
- Sven T. Kjellberg, S. Artur Svensson, Slott och herresäten i Sverige: Halland. Bohuslän. Blekinge. p. 240. 1968.
- Nikolai Puzin, The Lev Tolstoy House-Museum In Yasnaya Polyana, 1998
- "En resa att se fram emot," Eskilstuna Kuriren, 8 June 2002
- "Leo Tolstoj är Tanjas farfar," Eskilstuna Kuriren, 5 August 2003
- "Tanja Paus och Sonja Ceder till minne," Svenska Dagbladet, 11 March 2007