Dmitry Andreyevich, Count Tolstoy

Dmitry Andreyevich, Count Tolstoy (born March 13 [March 1, old style], 1823, Moscow—died May 7 [April 25, O.S.], 1889, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a tsarist Russian government official known for his reactionary policies. Tolstoy was appointed to the education ministry in 1866, charged with imposing strict discipline on both the students and teachers and keeping them from exposure to revolutionary doctrines that were thought to have become dangerously widespread in the Russian Empire. He...