TOLSTAYA (Countess Alexandra Lvoyna, 1884-1979, Youngest Daughter and Secretary of the Leo Tolstoy)

Fine Signature on Card with original typed envelope addressed to Mr Robert F. Allen, Jr, in Lewiston, Maine, 5” x 3”, postmarked New York, 3rd September

The youngest daughter of Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) and of his wife Sophia (1844–1919), Alexandra was close to her father. In 1901, at the age of seventeen, she became his secretary. He appointed her as executor of his will, a task she had to undertake in 1910

Item Date:  1974

Stock No:  42249      £275

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