Tolstoy, Ivan Nikitich

He graduated from the philological faculty of the Leningrad University (Russian branch).

He worked as a guide in the Pushkin Reserve ( Pushkin Mountains , 1980-1983), a teacher of Russian language and literature in the Leningrad secondary school (1984-1986), a teacher of the Polygraphic Institute (1987-1988) and the Russian Christian Humanitarian Institute (since 1989), and specialized courses in V. Nabokov at St. Petersburg State University (1994) and source studies at Charles University (Prague, 1999), worked as an editor at Zvezda magazine (1989–1990), as a proofreader for the Russian Thought weekly (Paris, 1990–1993), as a radio freelancer. Liberty (1988-1995), editor in chief of Publishers Tobias Grzhe Ina (Paris, 1992-1993), where (in conjunction with the St. Petersburg partners) released the book Boris Paramonov, E. Polyanovskiy E. Mock Beeker, Leontyev and the first edition of "Boris Godunov" Pushkin . The work with T. Grzhebin was described in letters to the historian by the book L. Univergu ^[1] .

Reprinted since 1985 (about 500 articles, reviews and reviews in Russian-language periodicals of Germany, Russia, USA and France). Specializes in the history of emigration and the Cold War. In 1994, the editor-in-chief of the illustrated “journal of essays, publications, chronicles” “Experiments” (Paris-Petersburg, 1994, No. 1, unique). Since 2011, she has been writing the program “The Historical Journeys of Ivan Tolstoy” on the Russian TV channel “Culture ”.

Since autumn 2018, it compiles and edits the Connaisseur historical and cultural almanac published in Prague in Russian.

• Italic era: Literary notes. - SPb .: Pushkin Foundation, 1993.
• Prague: Poster Guide. - M .: Afisha, 2001. (in collaboration with O. Polenova, E. Kostyleva, O. Carmody)
• Radio Liberty: Half a century on the air. 1953-2002. CD-ROM. - Prague-Moscow, 2003.
• Pasternak's laundered novel: Doctor Zhivago between the KGB and the CIA. - M .: Time , 2009.
• "Doctor Zhivago": New facts and findings in the Nobel archive. - Prague: Human Rights Publishers , 2010.
• "Mister from San Francisco" a hundred years later. - San Francisco: Aquilon, 2016. (in collaboration with Andrey Ustinov)
• Bedlam as Bethlehem: Conversations of lovers of the Russian word. - M .: ID "BUSINESS", 2016. (in collaboration with Boris Paramonov)

• The cycle "Historical Travels of Ivan Tolstoy", the TV channel "Culture" (author and presenter)
• "The custodians of the inheritance", the TV channel "Culture", 2013 (author and presenter)

• A quarter of a century collecting Nabokov (Prague, Radio Liberty Headquarters and the same: Slavic Library, 1999)
• Writers at the microphone: Books and photos from the collection of Ivan Tolstoy (Slavic Library, Prague, 2003; catalog)
• For the 50th anniversary of Radio Liberty: People and books (Prague, Radio Headquarters, 2003)
• The Third Wave and "Novy Amerikanetz": Russian Culture in New York 1970-1990. Legendary Time by Legendary Artists and Photographers (The National Arts Club, New York, May 31 - June 11, 2016). Co-curator of the exhibition (along with Matthew Drutt and Marina Kovaleva).

• Page on Radio Liberty website
• Tolstoy, Ivan Nikitich in the " Journal Hall "
• Ivan Tolstoy in the School of Gossip . February 16, 2010
• Television cycle "Historical travels of Ivan Tolstoy"