Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Tolstoy, Aleksei Nikolaevich (1882–1945), Russian novelist and playwright, best known for his trilogy The Road to Calvary (1921–40), the novella Nikita's Childhood (1922), and the novel Peter the First (1929–45). A nobleman distantly related to Leo Tolstoy, he left Russia in 1917 but returned in 1922 and became a supporter of Joseph Stalin's regime.