In Tatyana Tolstoy’s most famous novel “Kys”, one can find words that a person is a crossroads of two abysses that are equally bottomless and equally incomprehensible - this is the outside world and the inside world.
The biography of Tatyana Tolstoy is worthy of a separate story. It shows how the two abysses of the inner and outer world met and intertwined in her fate.
Tatyana Tolstaya was born on May 3, 1951 in Leningrad, a city on the Neva. Her last name speaks for itself - she is one of the many representatives of the Tolstoy clan, a direct descendant of the famous writer Alexei Tolstoy (granddaughter). Graduated from Leningrad University, Department of Classical Philology. In the year of graduation (1974) Tatyana married Andrei Lebedev and moved with him to Moscow. In the capital, I got a job as a proofreader in the publishing house "Science", in the main edition of oriental literature.
The biography of Tatyana Tolstoy was on the knurled road of a girl from an intelligent family with literary roots. Perhaps, it would have been the rule of other people's texts to her old age, if not for the event that served as the impetus for engaging in creativity. In the early eighties, she had to undergo an ophthalmic surgery, after which she had to wear a blindfold for a month . The time of forced inaction came when it was not enough to work, even just to read a book. And then the granddaughter of the author “Peter the Great” and “Hyperboloid Engineer Garin” began to come up with the subjects of their own stories and novels. It was during this period of darkness that the writer Tatyana Tolstaya appeared.
Her biography in this new capacity began with the publication in 1983 of an article written in the genre of literary criticism called “Glue and Scissors”. Then (1983) came the first literary story, "On the Golden Porch Sat ...". From this moment, Tatyana Nikitichna begins to be actively published in literary magazines. In 1987, a collection of short stories “On the Golden Porch Sat ...” was published, after which the “novice” writer was accepted by his colleagues into the Writers' Union.
The nineties, as noted by the biography of Tatyana Tolstoy, passed with an English accent. From 1990 to 1999, she lived for a long time in America, where she taught, lectured and collaborated with local magazines. Also at this time, Tatyana tries herself in journalism: she leads a column in Moscow News, works in the magazine Capital. In parallel with this, her stories are published, some of them are translated into foreign languages. In 1999, the writer finally returned to her homeland.
A further biography of Tatyana Tolstoy develops under two signs: “Kys” and “School of Slander”. The novel "Kys", which was released in 2000, immediately became extremely popular. He received the Triumph Prize and the prize of the International Book Fair in Moscow. In 2002, our heroine became the head of the editorial board of the Conservative magazine.
In the same 2002, Tatyana Nikitichna began to conduct on television a unique intellectual talk show “School of Slander”, along with screenwriter Dunya Smirnova. The program is still being broadcast on central television and enjoys steady success with its viewer.
The wide audience is also well known for Tatyana Tolstoy's eldest son - Artemy Lebedev, the head of Artemy Lebedev Studio - the most famous Internet designer, blogger, businessman and inventor.