Editing Tolstoy family (section)

==Origins==
The Tolstoys were a family of provincial [[Grand Duchy of Moscow|Muscovite]] gentry who claimed their ancestry to a mythical [[Lithuanian nobility|Lithuanian nobleman]] named Indris stated by [[Pyotr Andreyevich Tolstoy|Pyotr Tolstoy]] as supposedly having arrived from the [[Holy Roman Empire]] to [[Chernigov]] in 1353, the very year when the city became part of [[Grand Duchy of Lithuania]], together with his two sons Litvinos (or Litvonis, "Lithuanian") and Zimonten (or Zigmont, or "[[Samogitia]]n") and a [[druzhina]] of 3000 men. Litvonis and Zimonten possibly refer to the two main parts of Lithuania at the time - Samogitia was considered administratively separate from [[Lithuania Proper]] (in the narrow sense) for much of history.<ref name='rummel'>''Vitold Rummel, Vladimir Golubtsov (1886)''. [http://www.runivers.ru/lib/book3148/10056/ Genealogical Collection of Russian Noble Families in 2 Volumes. Volume 2] // The Tolstoys, Counts and Noblemen. — Saint Petersburg: A. S. Suvorin Publishing House, p. 487</ref><ref name='bunin'>[[Ivan Bunin]], ''The Liberation of Tolstoy: A Tale of Two Writers'', p. 100</ref> Indris was then  supposedly converted to [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Eastern Orthodoxy]] as Leonty and his sons — as Konstantin and Feodor, respectively; adopting religion of the locals was typical of Lithuanian nobility at the time and characteristic of the Lithuanian style of governing. Konstantin's grandson, Andrei Kharitonovich, was nicknamed Tolstiy (translated as ''fat'') by [[Vasily II of Moscow]] after he moved from Chernigov to Moscow.<ref name='rummel' /><ref name='bunin' />

Because of the [[pagan]] names and the fact that Chernigov at the time was ruled by [[Demetrius I Starshy]] some research concluded that they were [[Lithuanians]] who arrived from the [[Grand Duchy of Lithuania]], then in conflict with the [[State of the Teutonic Order]].<ref name='rummel' /><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7kDJ3s1mcZcC&q=tolstoy+lithuanian&pg=PA8|title=Tolstoy|isbn=9780802137685|last1=Troyat|first1=Henri|year=2001}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/06/books/six-centuries-of-tolstoys.html|title=Six Centuries of Tolstoys|date=6 November 1983|work=The New York Times}}</ref> At the same time, no mention of Indris was ever found in the 14-16th century documents, while the [[Old Russian Chronicles|Chernigov Chronicles]] used by Pyotr Tolstoy as a reference were lost.<ref name='rummel' /> The first documented members of the Tolstoy family also lived in the 17th century. [[House of Durnovo]] is a side branch of the Tolstoy family. Pyotr Tolstoy is the founder of the titled branch of the family; he was granted the title of [[count]] by [[Peter the Great]].<ref>[https://gerbovnik.ru/arms/162.html Tolstoy coat of arms] by All-Russian Armorials of Noble Houses of the Russian Empire. Part 2, June 30, 1798 (in Russian)</ref><ref>[https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/ЭСБЕ/Толстые The Tolstoys] article from [[Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary]], 1890–1907 (in Russian)</ref> The untitled branch of the same stem is descended from Ivan Andreevich Tolstoy. Their common ancestor was Andrey Vasilievich Tolstoy, who married Stepanida Andreevna [[Miloslavsky family|Miloslavskaya]], a cousin of the [[Maria Miloslavskaya|tsarina]]. This marriage had allowed the average gentry family to enter the Moscow court. The Tolstoy family is also found amongst untitled provincial gentry of the same origins.