Tolstoy family at the Marquesas and debauched all the crew, captain Krusenstern had to maroon him on the Aleutian Islands near Kamchatka. When he returned to St Petersburg, Count Fedor was nicknamed "Amerikanets" ("the American"). He fought bravely in the Patriotic War of 1812 but scandalized his family again by marrying a Gypsy singer in 1821. Alexander Griboyedov satirized him in "Woe from Wit", and his cousin Leo Tolstoy — who called him an "extraordinary, criminal, and attractive man" — fictionalized him as Dolokhov in "War and Peace". Many of the Tolstoys devoted their spare time to literary pursuits. For instance, Count
Leo Tolstoy Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication Leo Tolstoy Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication Leo Tolstoy Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication, formerly Kazan Imperial University, is a higher educational institution of Kazan, one of the largest institutes of Kazan (Volga region) Federal University. The famed Russian writer Leo Tolstoy was a former student of Kazan University. IPIC has more than 3,000 students, 300 teachers and staff members, including 71 Ph.D and 188 candidates of sciences, 9 teachers from foreign countries. The Institute comprises 3 academic divisions: the Higher School of Russian and Foreign Philology, Gabdulla Tukay Higher School of Tatar Studies and Turkology and the