Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whanau a Tolstaya ki Leningrad i roto i te whanau o nga kaituhi. Ko tana tupuna matua, a Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoy, he kaituhi pakiwaitara putaiao, me te tama a Count Nikolay Alexandrovich Tolstoy (1849<unk>1900) me Alexandra Leontievna Turgeneva (1854<unk>1906), he whanaunga o
Ko te Decembrist Nikolay Turgenev me te kaituhi a Ivan Turgenev. Ko te kuia o Tolstaya ko te kaitoi a Natalia Krandievskaya. Ko Mikhail Lozinsky (1886-1955), ko tana tupuna whaea, he kaiwhakamaori tuhituhi i rongonui mo tana whakamaoritanga o te "The Divine Comedy" a Dante. Ko te tuahine o Tolstaya, ko Natalia he kaituhi hoki. Ko tana tama, ko Artemy Lebedev, te rangatira-kaiwhakahaere o Art. Lebedev Studio, he kamupene hoahoa tukutuku a Rūhia.