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Nikolai Tolstoy

Nikolai Tolstoy is an English-Russian author and Patrick O'Brian's step-son, their relationship spanned forty-five years during O'Brian's marriage to Mary Tolstoy, NIkolai's mother. He has written a number of books, including Patrick O'Brian - The Making of a Novelist, The Coming of the King and Victims of Yalta. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1979.