Tatiana "Tanja" Tolstoy-Paus (born Countess Tatyana Lvovna Tolstaya, ; 20 September 1914 – 29 January 2007) was a Russian-Swedish countess, socialite and a member of the Tolstoy family. She was the last surviving grandchild of Leo Tolstoy.
She was born on her grandfather's estate Yasnaya Polyana, the daughter of novelist and sculptor Lev Lvovich Tolstoy and his Swedish wife Dora Westerlund. As a result of the Russian Revolution, the family fled to Sweden in 1917. In 1940 she married Norwegian-born estate owner and former competitive skier Herman Paus, the owner of the major Herresta estate outside Stockholm.Sven T. Kjellberg, S. Artur Svensson, Slott och herresäten i Sverige: Halland. Bohuslän. Blekinge. p. 240. 1968. Her father-in-law Karl L. Paus was a first cousin of playwright Henrik Ibsen. They had four children.Nikolai Puzin, The Lev Tolstoy House-Museum In Yasnaya Polyana, 1998 She was active in regional politics and as a philanthropist and socialite in Swedish society."En resa att se fram emot," Eskilstuna Kuriren, 8 June 2002"Leo Tolstoj är Tanjas farfar," Eskilstuna Kuriren, 5 August 2003"Tanja Paus och Sonja Ceder till minne," Svenska Dagbladet, 11 March 2007
Her great-niece is jazz singer Viktoria Tolstoy.
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