Tuhia he whakamāramatanga mō tēnei wāhanga - I whānau a Tolstaya ki Leningrad i roto i tētahi whānau 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 Decembrist
Ko 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.