Editing Tolstoy family (section)

==In high society==
[[File:tolstoy rooms.jpg|thumb|Feodor Tolstoy's watercolour of his house in Moscow]]
Count '''[[Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy|Feodor Petrovich Tolstoy]]''' (1783–1873), sympathetically mentioned by [[Alexander Pushkin|Pushkin]] in ''Eugene Onegin'', was one of the most fashionable Russian drawers and painters of the 1820s. Although he prepared fine illustrations for [[Ippolit Bogdanovich|Bogdanovich]]'s ''Dushenka'', his genuine vocation was wax modeling and the design of [[medals]]. As he gradually went blind he had to give up drawing and started writing [[ballets]] and librettos for operas. He was appointed Vice-President of the Academy of Arts in 1828. Many of his works may be seen in the [[Russian Museum]], [[St Petersburg]].

Count '''[[Fyodor Ivanovich Tolstoy]]''' (1782–1846) was a notorious drunkard, gastronome, and duellist. It is said that he killed 11 people in [[duels]]. In 1803 he participated in the first Russian [[circumnavigation]] of the Earth. After he had his body tattooed at the [[Marquesas]] and debauched all the crew, captain [[Adam Johann von Krusenstern|Krusenstern]] had to maroon him on the [[Aleutian Islands]] near [[Kamchatka Peninsula|Kamchatka]]. When he returned to St Petersburg, Count Fedor was nicknamed ''Amerikanets'' ("the American"). He fought bravely in the [[Patriotic War of 1812]] but scandalized his family again by marrying a Gypsy singer in 1821. [[Alexander Griboyedov]] satirized him in ''[[Woe from Wit]]'', and his cousin [[Leo Tolstoy]] — who called him an "extraordinary, criminal, and attractive man" — fictionalized him as Dolokhov in ''War and Peace''.