Tatiana Tolstoy-Paus

Tatiana "Tanja" Tolstoy-Paus[lower-alpha 1] (20 September 1914 – 29 January 2007) (née Countess Tatyana Lvovna Tolstaya; Russian: Графиня Татья́на Льво́вна Толста́я) was a Russian-Swedish countess, socialite and a member of the Tolstoy family. She was the last surviving grandchild of Leo Tolstoy.

Countess

Tatiana Tolstoy-Paus
Born
Tatiana Tolstoy

(1914-09-20)20 September 1914
Yasnaya Polyana, Russian Empire
Died29 January 2007(2007-01-29) (aged 92)
Herresta, Sweden
Nationality
Spouse(s)Herman Paus
Parent(s)

She was born on her grandfather's estate Yasnaya Polyana, the daughter of novelist and sculptor Lev Lvovich Tolstoy and his Swedish wife Dora Westerlund. As a result of the Russian revolution, the family fled to Sweden in 1917. In 1940 she married Norwegian-born estate owner and former competitive skier Herman Paus, the owner of the major Herresta estate outside Stockholm.[1] Her father-in-law Karl L. Paus was a first cousin of playwright Henrik Ibsen. They had four children.[2] She was active in regional politics and as a philanthropist and socialite in Swedish society.[3][4][5]

Her great-niece is jazz singer Viktoria Tolstoy.[2]

Notes
  1. The spelling Tatiana Tolstoy was her official name in Sweden, although Tolstoy is a masculine form of the name in the original Russian; the feminine form is Tolstaya

References
  1. Sven T. Kjellberg, S. Artur Svensson, Slott och herresäten i Sverige: Halland. Bohuslän. Blekinge. p. 240. 1968.
  2. Nikolai Puzin, The Lev Tolstoy House-Museum In Yasnaya Polyana, 1998
  3. "En resa att se fram emot," Eskilstuna Kuriren, 8 June 2002
  4. "Leo Tolstoj är Tanjas farfar," Eskilstuna Kuriren, 5 August 2003
  5. "Tanja Paus och Sonja Ceder till minne," Svenska Dagbladet, 11 March 2007


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