I love decorative art - it adds to the layering of a home - and again these were the perfect colours for our home. Change the plan you will roll onto at any time during your trial by visiting the Settings & Account section. It was quite a dramatic change from not wanting to be Russian to being proud of my heritage. He voiced the crocodile in my childrens favourite Soviet cartoon, Cheburashka, so its like hes in our home. He was in a public dispute with Vladimir Putin, so it was dangerous for us to visit Russia for a long time. I wanted to cleanse that whole phase of my life and get back to who I really was, she says of her decision to sell off her designer wares. Now I embrace embroidery, vintage Fair Isle knitwear from eBay and clothes by the Russian designer Russmotive, which reprints old fabric designs. 11:17 EST 03 Nov 2020. The next year, I took a trip to Kyrgyzstan, which is better suited to riding because its mountainous and beautiful, and the horses are wonderful. Showing Editorial results for alexandra tolstoy. Image courtesy of Christies, Tolstoys happy working relationship with Slowik dates back more than a decade. Like how she began wearing blingy designer trainers. Its the reason shes been selling off many of the fashion relics of her old life, first with a sale at her Chelsea home, and now with a newly launched website where her own cast-offs will be sold alongside those of other stylish women including stylist Martha Ward and creative director and store owner, Alex Eagle. Shes kept a few special pieces. Subconsciously, I got quite in awe of all those Russian girls in that world. Shortly afterwards I introduced her to Emma for decoration help with other projects globally and the relationship grew and grew. Indeed, after the breakdown of her marriage, it was Sergei himself who began monitoring Alexandra, placing individuals outside her London house every day to intimidate her. 111k Followers, 797 Following, 1,514 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from ALEXANDRA TOLSTOY (@alexandratolstoy) alexandratolstoy. Alexandra Tolstaya Countess Alexandra ( Sasha) Lvovna Tolstaya ( Russian: ; 18 June 1884 - 26 September 1979), often anglicized to Tolstoy, was the youngest daughter and secretary of the noted Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy. My mother comes from a big family of seven and they made all their own clothes, bread and yoghurt. Please, The subscription details associated with this account need to be updated. The largest: 31 in (79 cm) high. Everything was paid for and clothes were delivered at home. Boards are the best place to save images and video clips. You may also opt to downgrade to Standard Digital, a robust journalistic offering that fulfils many users needs. [4] Her father having been excommunicated from the Russian Orthodox Church for his teachings, she commented: .mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 40px}.mw-parser-output .templatequote .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;padding-left:1.6em;margin-top:0}, I don't believe in everything the Orthodox Church says, I don't believe in miracles, but want the people to go to church. This week, the contents of the latter are on sale at Christie's as she moves out into a new home (the progress of which we've been avidly following on Instagram). After arriving in the UK in 2011, he was accused of siphoning a fortune out of his finance house Mezhprombank. Collect, curate and comment on your files. 'It was a great pleasure to be able to fully utilise such a diverse and highly personal selection of works of art, furniture and objects in a family home but also to be surrounded by objects that I took great huge pleasure from every day. And when youre in an abusive relationship like that it makes you completely and utterly lose your confidence, you dont even realise its happening. She spent her gap year in Russia. Within months, Tolstoy and was pregnant with Sergei's child. However, after allowing White Russians to meet in her Moscow home, she was arrested five times by the Bolsheviks and in 1920 was sent to prison for a year. I started Preloved by Alexandra Tolstoy with a friend we sell second-hand designer items via Instagram by doing this huge sale of my own clothes. Featuring a classic Fair Isle jumper, snood, and mittens, along with this season's most coveted knit; a tank top. She sent a cheque for 5,500 from her last clear out. I went quite street. 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By Its a very visually stimulating religion., A Russian painted pine model of the Trinity Monastry of St. Sergius, c. 1900. Sign up for the latest news, offers and styles, Use left/right arrows to navigate the slideshow or swipe left/right if using a mobile device, The Tolstoy Edit x SJ Axelby Interior Portraits, choosing a selection results in a full page refresh. My mother was amazing, she made me all these Laura Ashley things which were very special and my aunts knitted Fair Isle jumpers. Selling her designer clothes and handbags allowed her to start again, and to be herself. Tolstoy has also partnered with Ampersand Travel to curate boutique tours of Russia, and garnered a loyal following across her trio of Instagram accounts. I think that probably this business partner had been the brains, and Sergei had been the power broker, Despite the tumult of threats, financial loss, and romantic decline, complicated with the duty of raising small children, Alexandra seems at harmony with her present situation, and this is thanks to her newly unostentatious lifestyle that of the billionaires wife just didnt suit her: My whole confidence got so smashed when I was with him; he was so very manipulative, very denigrating about my riding, my exhibitions, my travel and so, I began to focus on all these things which a normal kind of oligarchs girlfriend would focus on. Shes a pin-up for authentic prairie chic. The broadcaster, author and businesswoman Alexandra Tolstoy has beautiful taste in interiors - here at House & Garden we've featured her fairytale cottage in Oxfordshire as well as her Chelsea house. As the eldest of author and historian Count Nikolai Tolstoy and his wife Georginas four children, her childhood in the countryside was as wholesome, homespun and Mitfordian U as they come. Many of them met at the "Aunt Sasha" 90th anniversary in 1974. In the February 2016 High Court judgment, no ruling was made on the allegations of embezzled cash and Pugachev told the court he had not stolen any money. Id only been to France on holiday, I didnt speak Russian and all my friends were on gap years in Thailand and India. Shop Alexandra TolstoysPreloved edit here, For more news, analysis and advice from The Telegraph's fashion desk,click hereto sign up to get our weekly newsletter, straight to your inbox every Friday. It was also life-changing: a book deal soon followed, as did a brief marriage to an Uzbek showjumper. The first time I went to Russia was in 1992, just after the Soviet Union dissolved. But the eventual dramatic unravelling of their liaison was laid bare in a documentary which aired last week on BBC, The Countess and the Russian billionaire. I was living at Claridges, which is just around the corner from where Colefax & Fowler used to have their antiques shop. "The Scottish cupboard lined with striped fabric by Colefax. The interior and collection speaks not only of her love of the traditional English country house, but also of her Russian family heritage, innate personal sense of style and a strong desire to create a special home for her children. She tells me that Sergei did have really good taste, but, I was surprised to learn, collected artwork for its style, rather than for the sake of them being expensive pieces., Alexandra seems to be regaining her confidence since the ending of her relationship and peak surveillance a few years ago in the documentary, theres recent footage of her and her children riding scooters to school in the morning, something she never could have done a few years ago. She could choose whatever she wanted. Verified. One such piece is a Dolce & Gabbana star print dress (290, pictured up top), which she wore during a trip to Monaco in 2011, the same year she attended the wedding of Prince Albert II and Charlene Wittstock there. When he fled to France in 2015, I ultimately felt such relief. She organises adventurous horse riding holidays in Kyrgyzstan, and runs The Tolstoy Edit, a curated shop of her favourite interiors discoveries. [4], In 1921 she became the director of the Tolstoy museum at Yasnaya Polyana. Alexandra on horseback in Kyrgyzstan. She picks up the telephone, and I can hear the excited chatter of the children who are going into the sitting room to be read a Just William story by their grandfather. The Russians then accused him of profiting from vast sums of taxpayers' money given to Mezhprombank by the Russian central bank at the height of the 2008 economic crisis. Alexandra spoke to Jenny Coad. It was shocking how he had absolutely no clue about finances, about running a company; it was shocking basic accounting, he didnt even understand. Leo Tolstoy with his daughter Alexandra Lvovna Tolstaya But even more interesting to me is the life of his youngest surviving daughter Alexandra Tolstaya (1884-1979). She grew up in Oxfordshire before going to Edinburgh University to study philosophy. I very much hope that these pieces will find a new home and be equally enjoyed.'. 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