Countess Alexandra Tolstoy has offered a glimpse inside her cosy Oxfordshire cottage where she is spending lockdown – months after she was ‘evicted’ from the London home owned by her Russian billionaire ex.
The aristocratic beauty, who shares children Aliosha, Ivan and Maria with financier Sergei Pugachev, has swapped city life for quieter days filled with country walks, baking and homeschooling.
Photos shared on Instagram, where she boasts more than 75,000 followers, reveal a rustic family kitchen, bedrooms with sloped ceilings and wrought iron beds, and a characterful living room complete with roaring fire.
Unlike some influencers, Alexandra doesn’t shy away from photographing the realities of family life and happily posts photos of piles of laundry, cluttered countertops and a dining room table strewn with homework.
Pugachev, 57, was once dubbed ‘the Kremlin’s banker’ and was close to Vladimir Putin before falling into disfavour. He is now seen as a ‘traitor’ by the Russian president.
After arriving in the UK in 2011, he was accused of siphoning a fortune out of his finance house Mezhprombank. State creditors in Moscow pursued him in the British courts, claiming he embezzled hundreds of millions.
The oligarch fled to France, where he remains, and was sentenced to two years in his absence by a High Court judge in 2016 for breaching court orders relating to hundreds of millions in allegedly stolen cash.
Casual in the country! Countess Alexandra Tolstoy has offered a glimpse inside the cosy Oxfordshire cottage where she is spending lockdown with her three children. Her ex is Russian billionaire Sergei Pugachev, 57, who is living in exile
Family life: Mother-of-three Alexandra shows off a refreshingly normal kitchen, complete with cluttered countertops
Old-fashioned goodness: Alexandra’s daughter Maria tucked up in bed in one of the three bedrooms upstairs in the property
Organisaed chaos: Unlike some influencers, Alexandra doesn’t shy away from capturing piles of laundry in her pictures
Personal treasures: The house is decorated with dozens of ornaments and soft furnishings in an array of patterned fabrics
Pugachev has cut off Alexandra and their children financially, she claims, and the family were evicted from Pugachev’s £12million south London family mansion during the height of the pandemic after reportedly being given just 12 days notice by the Russian government, who had repossessed the property.
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