Valentin Bulgakov

Valentin Bulgakov
Bulgakov, and Leo Tolstoy in 1910
Native name
Валентин Фёдорович Булгаков
Born(1886-11-25)25 November 1886
Kuznetsk, Tomsk Governorate, Russian Empire
Died22 September 1966(1966-09-22) (aged 79)
Yasnaya Polyana, Tula Oblast, Soviet Union
NationalityRussian
Alma materImperial Moscow University (1910)
GenreWriter of memoirs, biography
Years active1910–1966

Valentin Fyodorovich Bulgakov (Russian: Валентин Фёдорович Булгаков; 25 November 1886 – 22 September 1966) was the last secretary of Leo Tolstoy and his biographer. He served as the director of several literary museums and actively participated in Tolstoyan and pacifist initiatives. He endured imprisonment under the Tsarist regime and internment in a Nazi concentration camp. For the last 20 years of his life, he assumed the role of the head at the Yasnaya Polyana museum.

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