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From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20030422
Author:Dempster, Nigel

Byline: NIGEL DEMPSTER

ALEXANDRA Tolstoy boasts about being a 'relative' of War And Peace author Count Leo Tolstoy - which has done no harm to her blossoming career as a writer.

And her father, Kent-born historian 'Count' Nikolai Tolstoy, is also sometimes described as the great-nephew of the Russian novelist.

However, so far removed from Tolstoy are they that it is pushing it to say they're relatives. Leo was the fourth cousin of Alexandra's great-great grandfather.

And Nikolai's full surname is Tolstoy-Miloslavsky. His mother and grandmother were British and ...

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