Tolstoy

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).

People

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

• Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1883–1945) 'Comrade Count', writer of science fiction and historical novels
• Nikolai Tolstoy (born 1935), English-Russian author and former parliamentary candidate of the UK Independence Party