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The town of Nikolaevsk in the Samara province (now Pugachevsk) is considered the place where Alexey Tolstoy was born on January 10 in 1883. His noble origins are still disputed, since the mother of the future writer left her husband-count shortly before the birth of her son to an employee of the zemstvo, who actually became Alexei's father. The boy's cloudless childhood passed on the Sosnovka farm. Alexei's primary education was at home, then he was sent to the Samara real school, and, having moved to St. Petersburg, he entered the institute of technical direction. Alexei Tolstoy wrote poetry at the age of sixteen, was fond of painting, but the first publications of his poetic works date back to 1905, prosaic ones - to 1908. He described military operations in the First World War, being at the front as a correspondent for Russkiye vedomosti. He accepted the February revolution as progressive and liberating and even entered the Provisional Government.
The events of October 1917 forced him to emigrate - first from Odessa to Turkey, and then to France and Germany. During the five years of his stay abroad, Nikita's Childhood was written - a story of an autobiographical character, Sisters - the first part of Walking in Torment and a science-fiction novel - Aelita. Upon his return to Soviet Russia, Tolstoy adheres to the official ideology in his work and life, which affects the quality of some of his works. The thematic continuation of Aelita is the Hyperboloid of engineer Garin. The thirties include the Golden Key, or The Adventures of Pinocchio - a successful version of the Italian fairy tale Pinocchio, the novels - The Eighteenth Year, which is the second part of the Walk in Torment (the third, Gloomy Morning, he will finish in 1941), and Peter I - the result of Tolstoy's appeal to history Russia. In 1939, the writer will receive the title of academician and the Order of the Badge of Honor. Among the government awards of Alexei Tolstoy, Wikipedia also names the Orders of Lenin and the Red Banner of Labor, the Stalin Prizes - two he was awarded during his lifetime, the third - a year after his death, in 1946.
Alexei Tolstoy has blue eyes, natural light brown hair color, fair skin and medium lips. The shape of the face is oval, the forehead is high, the hair is straight, gray. Alexey Tolstoy did not change his hair color, preferring natural hair. The writer has a medium straight nose and a rounded chin. Alexey Tolstoy wore glasses. The writer's height is 176 cm, no tattoos.
