Lev Lvovich Tolstoy

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Lev Lvovich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Львович Толстой 1869 Yasnaya Polyana-1945 Sweden) was a son of Leo Tolstoy and a Russian writer himself.

Lev L’vovich, whom his father, Leo Tolstoy, once called “Leo Tolstoy, Junior,” was himself a fairly well-known and respected belletristic author and playwright in pre-Revolutionary Russia. Although he had enjoyed good relations with his parents, by the 1890s Lev L’vovich had come to doubt his father’s religious and moral teachings, eventually becoming an ardent monarchist and Russian patriot.

While living in exile after the Russian Revolution in Sweden, he became a vocal and sometimes harsh critic of his father’s teachings. He continued to write there, but also received attention as an artist and sculptor: He participated in numerous exhibits, where his busts of his father, Mussolini and Hoover all brought renown.

He died in Helsingborg, Sweden on October 18, 1945.