Background
Tolstoy, Alexandra Leo was born on July 1, 1884 in Yasnaya Polyana, Russia. Daughter of Leo N. and Sophie A. (Bers) Tolstoy.
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Tolstoy, Alexandra Leo was born on July 1, 1884 in Yasnaya Polyana, Russia. Daughter of Leo N. and Sophie A. (Bers) Tolstoy.
Educated at home; Doctor of Hebrew Literature, Hobart College, 1962 William Smith College, 1962. Secretary to father Leo North. Tolstoy, 1901-1910 worked preparing definitive edit of Leo North. Tolstoy's works, 1917-1929. Formerly principal school, Yasnaya Polyana.
Arrested five times, spent 2 months in prison, Lubianka, and one year of convict labor.
After release, left Russia to lecture in Japan, 1929-1931. Lecturer, author in the United States 1938-1979.
Company-founder, with T.A. Schaufuss, of Tolstoy Foundation Incorporated., American Russian refugee resettlement welfare agency, New York City, 1939, now Chairman of the Board.
Worked during German lethal gas attacks in trenches.
Served as nurse, 1914-1917.