Aleksei Tolstoy was born on January 10, 1883 in Nikolayevsk, Samara Governorate, Russian Empire [now Pugachyov, Saratov Oblast, Russia]. He was a writer, known for Aelita, the Queen of Mars (1924), Khromoy barin (1929) and The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin (1965). He was previously married to Julia V.Rozhansky, Lyudmila Ilinichna Krestinskaya-Barsheva, Sophia Isaakovna Dymshits and Natalia V. Krandievskaya. He died on February 23, 1945 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia].
