Vasilij Stepanovich Perfil’ev
1826–90
Russian administrator. Son of General Stepan Vasil’evich Perfil’ev. Married Praskov’ja Fëdorovna Tolstaya. Governor of Moscow, 1878–87. The prototype of Stiva Oblonskij in Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina.
Source
Tolstaya 2010, p. 56 n. 243.
Bibliography
Tolstaya, Sofia Andreevna. 2010. My life. Translated from the Russian by John Woodsworth and Arkadi Klioutchanski. Edited by Andrew Donskov. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press.
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