Count Nikolai Tolstoy MiloslavskyOne of Fourteen authors contributing to this collection: Nikolai Tolstoy was born in England fifteen years after his father's escape from Russia. He was educated at Wellington College, Dublin. He holds an M.A. in modern history. Count Tolstoy is heirto the senior line of the Tolstoy Miloslavsky families, and lives near Oxford with his wife and four children. The Tolstoys are a family whose collective achievement is unique in history. Thrones are toppled and campaigns won by these extraordinary individuals as they flash across six centuries of Russian history, governed by passions as vast as the events they dominate. For four centuries the Tolstoys have supplied Russia with many of her greatest statesmen, soldiers, writers, and eccentrics, each generation producing one or more of the most striking figures in the country's history. Read More Read Less