Prince Dmitry Romodanovsky served his sentence in Berezovsky District ; Count Andrei Osterman was exiled here in 1742 ; and the large family of the princes Dolgorukov, in 1798.

Count Dmitry Andreyevich Tolstoy () ( March 13, 1823 – May 7, 1889 ) was a Russian statesman, a member of the State Council of Imperial Russia ( 1866 ).

As Assistant Minister, at first under Count Dmitry Tolstoy and later under his successor, Ivan Durnovo, Plehve had shown definite administrative talent.

In 1861, he became director-general of engineers at the War Office, assisting Count Dmitry Milyutin, the Minister of War, in the reorganization of the army.

Other authors of the Gogol's era included Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoevsky ( The Living Corpse, written 1838, published 1844, The Ghost, The Sylphide, and other stories ), Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy ( The Family of the Vourdalak, 1839, and The Vampire, 1841 ), Mikhail Zagoskin ( Unexpected Guests ), Józef Sękowski / Osip Senkovsky ( Antar ), Yevgeny Baratynsky ( The Ring ).

The most famous of 19th-century Tolstoy politicians was Count Dmitri Andreevich ( 1823 – 89 ), successively the Minister of Education, Minister of Interior and President of the Academy of Science.

Count Feodor Petrovich Tolstoy ( 1783 – 1873 ), sympathetically mentioned by Pushkin in Eugene Onegin, was one of the most fashionable Russian drawers and painters of the 1820s.

Count Feodor Ivanovich Tolstoy ( 1782 – 1846 ) was a notorious drunkard, gastronome, and duellist.

Count Lev Nikolaevich ( 1828 – 1910 ), more widely known abroad as Leo Tolstoy is acclaimed as one of the greatest novelists of all time.

Count Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy ( 1883 – 1945 ) belonged to a different branch of the family.

* " The Family of the Vourdalak " by Count Alexis Tolstoy ( 1843 ).

Count Nikolai Tolstoy proposes that Brân's original function was that of a psychopomp, guiding the souls of the dead to the Otherworld.

Despite the revelations in O ' Brian's essay, O ' Brian's stepson Nikolai Tolstoy through O ' Brian's marriage to Mary Tolstoy disputes this, although he confirms that O ' Brian worked as a volunteer ambulance driver during the Blitz, where he met Mary, the separated wife of Russian-born nobleman and lawyer Count Dimitri Tolstoy.

In the 1920s, Russian expatriates Count Ilya Tolstoy ( son of author Leo Tolstoy ) and George Grebentschikoff founded an artists ' colony at one end of Main Street, known as Churaevka ( or " Russian Village ").

Russian Count Leo Tolstoy was a participant in the Battle of the Chernaya River.

* Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy wrote the supernatural love story Count Cagliostro where the Count brings to life a long dead Russian Princess, materializing her from her portrait.

Michael Wynne-Parker had been Principal Secretary from the late 1970s, and following the Marquess of Bristol's death also became the league's Acting Chancellor until 1987 when Count Nikolai Tolstoy was appointed to that position.

Left to right ; Christoper Arkell & Lord Nicholas Hervey ( standing ) Gregory Lauder-Frost ( speaking to Arkell ), Countess Georgina Tolstoy, Count Nikolai Tolstoy ( seated under picture ), unknown man, Merlin Hanbury-Tracy, 7th Baron Sudeley | Lord Sudeley and John P Bullen Stean ( with glasses ) at a dinner on 12 March 1990, at London's United Oxford & Cambridge Club

The current Chancellor is Count Nikolai Tolstoy, the well-known historian, who took up the post in late 1987.

One exception to this is the work of Count Nikolai Tolstoy titled The Coming of the King.

Whereas his elder brother Peter Apraksin ( the governor of Astrakhan ) was accused of sympathizing with the Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich, Fyodor was eager to demonstrate his zeal in persecuting the tsarevich, as did Count Peter Tolstoy, ( 1645 – 1729 ).

Occasionally they incorporate incongruous appearances by famous authors ( e. g.: Pushkin and Gogol tripping over each other ; Count Leo Tolstoy showing his chamber pot to the world ; Pushkin and his sons falling off their chairs ; etc.

The Black Forest was visited on several occasions by Count Otto von Bismarck during his rule 1873-1890.

In 967, Borrell II of Barcelona ( 947 – 992 ), visited the monastery, and the abbot asked the Count to take Gerbert with him so that the lad could study mathematics in Spain and acquire there some knowledge of Arabic learning.

In 1894 Count Rudolph Festetics de Tolna, his wife Eila ( née Haggin ) and her daughter Blanche Haggin visited Funafuti aboard the yacht Le Tolna.

At the beginning of his captivity, Count Orlov, an emissary of the Emperor, visited Bakunin and told him that the Emperor requested a written confession hoping that the confession would place Bakunin spiritually as well as physically in the power of the Russian state.

In 1530, the inhabitants obtained from the Count of the Genevois the privilege of holding two fairs a year, while the valley was often visited by the civil officials and by the bishops of Geneva ( first recorded visit in 1411, while St. Francis de Sales came there in 1606 ).

Count Hugh of Champagne made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1104-07 and visited Jerusalem for a second time in 1114-16.

In 1730 he visited Count Zinzendorf at Herrnhut, remaining there some months as teacher of Hebrew and Greek.

Garance is visited in her dressing room by the Count Édouard de Montray, a wealthy and cynical dandy who offers her his fortune if she will agree to become his mistress.

The Madison took on international flavor when Count Basie visited Columbus in 1959 and adopted the dance as a feature of his entertainment when he played London and the Continent, creating press notices in London.

In 1822 Haidinger visited France and England with Count Breunner, and, journeying northward, took up his abode in Edinburgh.

In 1832 he visited the United States along with Count Albert Pourtales, and in 1834 travelled from New Orleans to Mexico with Washington Irving.

Count Edgardo Sogno revealed in his memoirs that in July 1974, he visited the CIA station chief in Rome to inform him of the preparation of a neo-fascist coup.

The Count D ’ Eu and Princess Isabel visited Teresópolis in 1868 ; Emperor Dom Pedro II visited in 1870, and praised the village's beauty.

On November 28, the Viennese ambassador in Belgrade, Count Khevenhüller-Metsch, visited the headquarters of the Bulgarian Army and demanded the ceasing of military actions, threatening that otherwise the Bulgarian forces would meet Austro-Hungarian troops.

In 1781, the local visited Count Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden, a veteran of industrial development in Upper Silesia.

During 1797-1799 he visited Portugal with Count Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg, a botanist, entomologist and ornithologist from Dresden.

In 1728 Count Zinzendorf visited Jena, and Spangenberg met him.

In early 1178, Philip, Count of Flanders visited Constantinople on his way back from the Holy Land.

In order to ensure Germany's full support, the permanent head of the Austro-Hungarian Foreign Ministry Count Alexander von Hoyos visited Berlin on July 5.

** Count Jenő Zichy ( born 1837 ), inherited his father's notable collections, and followed him in his economic activities ; he three times visited the Caucasus and Central Asia to investigate the original seat of the Magyars, publishing as the result Voyages au Caucase ( 2 vols., Budapest, 1897 ) and Dritte asiatische Forschungsreise ( 6 vols., in Magyar and German ; Budapest and Leipzig, 1900 – 1905 ).