Nikolai Tolstoy
Count Nikolai Dmitrievich TolstoyMiloslavsky is an AngloRussian author who writes under the name Nikolai Tolstoy. A member of the Tolstoy family, he is a former parliamentary candidate of the UK Independence Party.
Like thousands of Russians in the present century, I was born and brought up in another country and was only able to enter the land of my ancestors as a visitor in later years. It was nevertheless a very Russian upbringing, one which impressed on me the unusual nature of my inheritance. I was baptised in the Russian Orthodox Church and I worshipped in it. I prayed at night the familiar words Oche nash, attended parties where little Russian boys and girls spoke a mixture of languages, and felt myself by manner and temperament to be different than my English friends. I think I was the most affected by those melancholy and evocative Russian homes where my elders, for the most part people of great charm and eccentricity, lived surrounded by the relics ikons, Easter eggs, portraits of Tsar and Tsaritsa, family photographs, and migr newspapers of that mysterious, faroff land of wolves, boyars, and snowforests of Ivan Bilibins famous illustrations to Russian fairytales. Somewhere there was
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