Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Novelist, Author
1883 – 1945
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Who was Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy?
Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, nicknamed the Comrade Count, was a Russian and Soviet writer who wrote in many genres but specialized in science fiction and historical novels.
During World War II, he served on an Extraordinary State Commission which "ascertained without reasonable doubt" the mass extermination of people in gas vans by the German occupiers. His work in the investigation of atrocities committed in the Stavropol region was recognized by Soviet prosecutors during the Nuremberg Trials of Nazi war criminals.
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- Born
- Jan 10, 1883
Pugachyov - Also known as
- A. Tolstoy
- Aleksei N. Tolstoy
- Alexei Tolstoy
- Алексей Толстой
- Comrade Count
- Aleksei Tolstoy
- Alexei Tolstoi
- Aleksei Nikolayevich Tolstoy
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Russian
- Nationality
- Soviet Union
- Russian Empire
- Profession
- Died
- Feb 23, 1945
Moscow - Resting place
- Novodevichy Cemetery
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on July 23, 2013
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