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Maria Tolstaya
(1790–1830)
BIRTH
1790
PLACE
Unknown
NAME
Maria Nikolayevna Volkonskaya
DEATH
August 4, 1830
PLACE
Yasnaya Polyana, Tula Governorate, Russian Empire
FAMILY
HUSBAND
Nikolai Ilyich Tolstoy
(c. 1794–1837)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Princess Maria Nikolayevna Volkonskaya Tolstaya was mother of novelist Leo Tolstoy. She inherited Yasnaya Polyana and married Count Nikolai Ilyich Tolstoy. She died when Leo was a small child.
EARLY LIFE
CAREER
DEATH
Maria Tolstaya became seriously ill in summer 1830 and died at Yasnaya Polyana on August 4, several months after the birth of her daughter. She was buried in the Tolstoy family crypt at Kochakovsky Cemetery.
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