this means that his father, whose name was nikolai alexandrovich tolstoy, was really count, i must saybehavior that for all his tricks in... he was kicked out of the guard, forbidden to live in st. petersburg, and he went to his homeland, that is, to the volga, to his hometown of samara, and there in in samara, this violent landowner met a girl whose last name was turgeneva, she was not in any kindred relationship with ivan sergeevich turgenev, but nevertheless, tolstoy and turgenev, they connected, it was an explosive mixture, she there was one, not even a turgenev girl, but a super russian idealist who got married. this hooligan and brawler, because she wanted to correct him, such a marriage, a noble, generous act, such a sacrifice on her part, none of this worked out, because the count continued to behave in the same scandalous way, but still less they lived together, they had children, and then the countess’s literary talent awoke, she began to write poetry, she began to write prose, her husband treated this arrogantly, mockingly, she did not meet. such an understanding in the fami

concerned about this problem, she was faced with the insurmountable circumstance that count nikolai alexandrovich tolstoyex-husband, the father of the child, he categorically refused to recognize the boy that he did not have any other children except those who were born before, the situation was there. the situation was deadlock it’s generally unclear what to do, and alexandra leontyevna thought that then maybe her second husband would recognize the child, he was not, by the way, her legal husband, because after the divorce she remained in eternal celibacy, such were the laws of the russian empire, this regard , if spouses were divorced due to adultery, adultery, then the one of the spouses who was not guilty of adultery could remarry or... get married, and the one who was guilty remained in eternal celibacy, since she was guilty , that means she remained hers marriage with bastrom was of a purely civil nature, but she nevertheless still thought that maybe the child would be adopted by bastrom, but bastrom was not a janitor, and she, despite all her democratic beliefs, still believed that let her best th