1. Fyokla Tolstaya is the great-great-granddaughter of the author Leo Tolstoy.
12 Facts About Fyokla Tolstaya
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Fyokla Tolstaya was born Anna Nikitichna Tolstaya on 27 February 1971 in Moscow.
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Fyokla Tolstaya holds a degree in Slavic philology from the Moscow State University and trained as a director at the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts.
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Fyokla Tolstaya began a career in journalism in the late 1990s, working as a magazine critic, newspaper columnist, and host on the radio stations Echo of Moscow and Radio Mayak.
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Fyokla Tolstaya is the longtime host of a morning talk show called "The Observer" on Russia's main dedicated culture channel.
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Fyokla Tolstaya hosted the Russian documentary series "Great Dynasties" and was the author and host of a documentary series called "The Tolstoys" about the history of the Tolstoy family.
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Fyokla Tolstaya appeared as an actress in the films Seraphim Polubes and Other Inhabitants of the Earth, The Old Alphabet and To Be Victor Pelevin.
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Fyokla Tolstaya has been head of development at the Leo Tolstoy State Museum in Moscow since 2012.
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Fyokla Tolstaya worked with Samsung to create a mobile app called "Live Pages" that presents classical literary texts in an interactive online format.
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Fyokla Tolstaya has coordinated several large-scale online reading marathons dedicated to Tolstoy and other authors of classical literature.
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In 2015, Fyokla Tolstaya organised an online public reading marathon of War and Peace.
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Fyokla Tolstaya is active in the field of digital humanities and co-authored a project called Textograf, a web-based app for the digitisation of manuscripts, among other projects.