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Dmitry
Alexandrovich Bystroletov (Tolstoy)

Russia • 1901−1975

Biography and information

Born in the Crimea in the village Accora. The son of count Alexander Tolstoy and Claudia Dmitrievna Bystroletov. In 1904-1914 gg. lived in St. Petersburg, in the family of the Countess de Corval, where he received education at home and upbringing. In 1915-1917 he studied at the Sevastopol Naval cadet corps. A member of the First world war in the Turkish theatre of war. In 1919, he deserted from the army of Denikin and fled to Turkey. Graduated with honors from the graduating class of the College for Europeans-Christians in Constantinople. In Czechoslovakia, he entered the University.

In 1923, in Prague received Soviet citizenship. Worked in the Soviet trade mission. In 1925 he became a staff member of the foreign intelligence service, 1930-1937 he was an illegal alien. Continuing his education, became a doctor of law of Prague University, a doctor of medicine of the University of Zurich, he studied in Berlin and Paris academies of arts, studied twenty foreign languages. Traveled many countries in Asia, Africa, America and Europe. Lived among the Tuareg in the Sahara desert, among the pygmies in Equatorial Africa, among the aristocrats of England, France and Italy, Industrialists and bankers of Germany, America and Holland.

In 1937 he arrived in the USSR in the same year became a member of the Union of artists of the USSR. In September 1938 he was arrested. Charged with violation of the 58th article of claim 6, 7, 8 of the criminal code of the RSFSR. Then — "Stalin voucher" — the full programme of the Gulag in the Arctic Norilsk, in Kraslava, Ciblage, in solitary confinement of the sensitive sites "Sukhanovka", Soviet prison in Ozerlag and Kamyshlag. Released in 1954 (schirova as a disabled person). Rehabilitated in 1956 his Wife (and employee) Bystroletova Samatova Mile-Yolanda Maria killed herself after her husband's arrest.

After his release, he lived in Moscow, worked on books, memoirs, screenplays. In November 1973 the premiere of the feature film "Man in plainclothes" scenario Bystroletova. He was buried in Moscow on Khovansky a cemetery.

Bystroletov is the author of sixteen books and memoirs, which gives their vision of the situation in the country before the Second world war, the assessment of the actions of the governing bodies of the Soviet state and Stalin.

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