In 1920 Alexandra Tolstaya, daughter of Leo Tolstoy, was arrested on a charge of involvement in a counter-revolutionary organisation and sentenced to three years' confinement in a concentration camp at the Novospassky Monastery in Moscow

In 1920 Alexandra Tolstaya, daughter of Leo Tolstoy, was arrested on a charge of involvement in a counter-revolutionary organisation and sentenced to three years' confinement in a concentration camp at the Novospassky Monastery in Moscow. She wrote: “My father, whose views I share, openly denounced the Tsarist government and yet remained free even then. <...> I do not conceal that I am no supporter of Bolshevism; I stated my view openly and plainly at the trial, but I have never acted and never shall act against the Soviet government, I have never engaged in politics and have belonged to no party. <...> Vladimir Ilyich! If I am harmful to Russia, expel me abroad. If I am harmful there too, then, since you recognise the right of one man to deprive another of life, shoot me as a harmful member of the Soviet republic. But do not compel me to drag out the life of a parasite, locked within four walls with prostitutes, thieves and bandits…”. In 1921 Tolstaya was released under an amnesty, went on working with her father's legacy, and in 1931 left for the United States.