Autograph of Lev Tolstoy

Certified Authentic autograph of Leo Tolstoy in the book (C 634).

Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy's “Prisoner of the Caucasus”

Signed: “Lyubochka - L. Tolstoy.”

Gift for little Lyubov Orlova

Much has been written about the origins of Lyubov Petrovna Orlova’s parents. Evgenia Nikolaevna Orlova, the mother of the famous actress, whose maiden name was Sukhotin, belonged to a count's family and was a very, very distant relative of the great Russian writer Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy. Her father, Nikolai Alexandrovich Sukhotin, was the brother of Mikhail Alexandrovich, the husband of Leo Tolstoy’s beloved daughter Tatyana Lvovna.

The Sukhotin family often visited Tolstoy Kocheta’s estate, and it is quite possible that little Lyubochka, who, according to family legends, even sat on the lap of the great old man, received a childhood memory that was dear to her - a little book.

Leo Tolstoy’s “Prisoner of the Caucasus” by the publishing house “Posrednik” with the author’s signature: “Lyubochka - L. Tolstoy.”

The wife of actor N. Cherkasov said that one day L. Orlova, rummaging through the papers, mysteriously asked her:

–Would you like to see Leo Tolstoy’s autograph?

I still would!

The actress showed Cherkasova a greeting card from the writer, Lyubochka Orlova.

“How old were you?” she was amazed.

-Six. This is him congratulating me on my sixth birthday.

“A good admirer to begin with,” the interlocutor noted.

“I was very sorry when he died,” the actress admitted, “and I cried for a long time...

This happened in the Moscow apartment of Alexandrov and Orlova.

And in Vnukovo, at the dacha, Alexandrov led guests to the second floor and, among other relics that adorned the wall of a steep staircase, demonstrated

edition of L. Tolstoy in “The Mediator” - “Prisoner of the Caucasus” - with a handwritten inscription: “Lyubochka -L. Tolstoy."