Tolstoy I.I. (1858-1916), archaeologist, numismatist, vice-president of the Academy of Arts

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TOLSTOY Ivan Ivanovich (1858, the town of Luga of St. Petersburg province -1916), count (1866), statesman and public figure, numismatist and archaeologist, Staff Master (1898), Honorary Fellow of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1897) and the Academy of Arts (1905). Graduated from the Faculty of Law at St. Petersburg University (1880). From 1881, he worked for various internal affairs institutions. In 1885-90, he was appointed Secretary of the Russian Archaeological Society, becoming a member in 1886-91, and Vice-Chairman in 1899; meanwhile, in 1886-91, he was a member of the Archaeological Commission. In 1889-93, he held the post of Conference Secretary of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, and was elected its Vice-President in 1893-1905; in this capacity he was in the charge of developing various new regulations. In 1905-06, Tolstoy was active as the Minister of Public Education in Count S.Y. Witte's cabinet. From 1904, he was an elected member of the St. Petersburg City Duma; in 1913-16, he held the post of Mayor of St. Petersburg. Tolstoy was one of the founders of the Russian Museum of Emperor Alexander III. From 1900, he was in the Department of Russian Printing Society, where he contributed to the establishment of the Journalists' Union and the Typesetters' Union; in 1911, he also became Chairman of the Russian Numismatists' Society. From 1906, he was a member of the Committee on the Building of the Alexander Pushkin Monument in St. Petersburg; in 1907, he became a member of the Council for Public Universities Society, in addition to various other posts he already held. In 1912-13, he was additional Chairman of the First All-Russian Congress for Women's Education. Tolstoy wrote academic papers on numismatics and archaeology. He lived at 2/19 Fifth Line of Vasilievsky Island until 1914, then moved to 26A Pesochnaya Street (present-day Professor Popov Street). He died in the Crimea and was buried at the Nikolskoe Cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Lavra (grave not preserved). Upon Tolstoy's death, his numismatic collection was taken to the Hermitage.

Works: Notes of the Mayor, in Zvezda, 1994, № 9, P. 178-197; Minister of Public Education Count I.I. Tolstoy's Memoirs, October 31, 1905 - April 24, 1906 (Moscow, 1997); Journal, 1906-1916 (St. Petersburg, 1997).

References: Жебелев С. А. Граф Иван Иванович Толстой, 1858-1916. Пг., 1916; Сухорукова А. С. Иван Иванович Толстой (1858-1916) - министр, общественный деятель, нумизмат // Из глубины времен: Альм. СПб., 1997. Вып. 9. С. 46-58; Шевырин В. М. Живое прошлое: (По страницам дневника и мемуаров гр. И. И. Толстого) // ОИ. 2000. № 4. С. 139-148.

D. N. Shilov. Alexander III, Emperor
Pushkin Alexander Sergeevich
Tolstoy Ivan Ivanovich
Witte Sergey Yulievich, Count
5th Line of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 2/19
Professora Popova St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 26, litera л. А
Записки городского головы // Звезда, 1994
Воспоминания министра народного просвещения графа И. И. Толстого, 31 окт. 1905 г. - 24 апр. 1906 г. М., 1997
Дневник, 1906-1916. СПб., 1997
Жебелев С. А. Граф Иван Иванович Толстой, 1858-1916. Пг., 1916
Сухорукова А. С. Иван Иванович Толстой (1858-1916) - министр, общественный деятель, нумизмат // Из глубины времен: Альм. СПб., 1997 Russian Academy of Sciences
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