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'''Alexandra Lvovna''' ([[1884]]-[[1979]]) was the youngest daughter and secretary of the famous [[Russia]]n novelist [[Leo Tolstoy]].

Although Lvovna shared with her father the doctrine of [[non-violence]], she felt it was her duty to take part in the events of [[World War I]]. For her courage, the Russian government awarded her three [[St George medalsMedals]] and the rank of colonel.

The [[Bolsheviks]] imprisoned Lvovna in 1920, but she was installed as the director of the Tolstoy museum in [[Yasnaya Polyana]] the next year. She left Russia in 1929, and settled in the [[United States]], where she founded the [[Tolstoy FundFoundation]].

In later years, she helped many Russian intellectuals (notably [[Vladimir Nabokov]] and [[Sergei Rachmaninoff]]) to escape [[Nazi]] persecution and to settle in America.

==External link==

* Bio [[http://www.tolstoyfoundation.org/tolstoy.html]]