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# 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
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- Published: 2025-07-20T17:06:49.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:29:23.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archive, Moscow, Society, People

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 not a supporter of Bolshevism; I stated my view openly and plainly at the trial, but I have never spoken out, and never shall speak out, against the Soviet government, have never engaged in politics and have belonged to no party. <...> Vladimir Ilyich! If I am harmful to Russia, send me abroad. If I am harmful there too, then, since you recognise the right of one man to take the life of another, shoot me as a harmful member of the Soviet republic. But do not force me to drag out the existence of a parasite, locked within four walls with prostitutes, thieves and bandits…”*

In 1921 Tolstaya was released under an amnesty and continued her work on her father's legacy; in 1931 she left for the United States.