Countess Alexandra Tolstoy has revealed that she cried as she was evicted from the South London home her ex reportedly paid £12 million cash for in 2011, with her three children this week.
The aristocratic beauty, 46, the daughter of Count Nikolai Tolstoy and ex-partner of Russian billionaire Sergei Pugachev, 57, revealed in May she was given just 12 days notice of repossession during the coronavirus outbreak, after her ex lost ownership in 2018 when Moscow judges ruled that it belonged to creditors in the Russian capital.
He is now livig in France after a four-year battle with the Russian government – where the DIA accused him of siphoning off millions from a state bailout of his bank, Mezhprombank.
Yesterday, Alexandra took to Instagram to share picture of her beloved London home being emptied by a packing company, showing piles of boxes in the kitchen and sitting room.
She is currently staying at her parents beautiful country home in Oxfordshire with her three children, but despite the idyllic setting, the Russian-born socialite has divulged her anguish at being kicked out of her London pad and losing her travel tour company in recent months.
Countess Alexandra Tolstoy has revealed that she cried as she was evicted from her multi-million London home with her three children this week
The aristocratic beauty, 46, the daughter of Count Nikolai Tolstoy and ex-partner of Russian billionaire Sergei Pugachev, 57, revealed in May she was given just 12 days notice during the coronavirus outbreak. Pictured: Alexandra Tolstoy, 45, and Sergei Pugachev, 57, in happier times.
Sharing a picture of her colourful living room, Alexandra took to Instagram last night and wrote: ‘Enjoying every little last second of our beloved home’, adding ‘just a few tears’.
It comes after her ex-partner Pugachev lost ownership of his London property, where Alexandra had been residing, after Moscow judges ruled that it belonged to creditors in the Russian capital, in October 2018.
The aristocratic beauty, 46, is the daughter of Count Nikolai Tolstoy and ex-partner of Russian billionaire Sergei Pugachev.
He was also embroiled in a four-year battle with the Russian government – where the DIA accused him of transferring millions from Mezhprombank.
They have been pursuing him in England’s high court and ordered him to give up his passports.
The Russian banker claimed the state was trying to steal his £11.5billion assets – including two shipyards, the world’s biggest mine and two properties in Moscow and St Petersburg.
Pugachev, who was once in Vladimir Putin’s inner circle, managed to flee to France – and has since split from Alexandra – who claims he claiming ‘physically attacked’ her, before locking the children in one room and hiding her passport.
The Anglo-Russian influencer and the children were reportedly told to leave their multi-million Chelsea property in January, following Pugachev’s property battle.
Sharing a picture of her colourful living room, Alexandra took to Instagram last night and wrote: ‘Enjoying every little last second of our beloved home’, adding ‘just a few tears’.
Earlier this month she shared a picture as she posed outside her former home with children Alexei, known as Aliosha, Ivan and Maria, writing: ‘Very far from smiling now; our final moment together outside our home for the last eleven years.
‘Each one of my children started their life in this house and as it’s not our choice to leave, it’s painful and oh so sad. The children have left now and I’m all alone and packing away a decade of belongings and memories. But onwards and upwards’, adding: ‘Indulging in a weep now’.
And it appears she is now renting out her country cottage, because a recent post on her Instagram account invites followers to DM her for rental prices.
Yesterday she took to Instagram to share picture of her beloved London home being emptied by a packing company, giving a glimpse at the piles of boxes in the kitchen and sitting room
Alexandra shared before and after pictures of her rooms being cleared and admitted it ‘feels so strange’
Alexandra shared a wistful picture of the piles of boxes in her home with a shocked face
This month she shared a picture as she posed outside her former home with children Alexei, known as Aliosha, Ivan and Maria, writing: ‘Very far from smiling now; our final moment together outside our home for the last eleven years.’
In May Countess Alexandra Tolstoy (seen with her daughter) revealed that she was served an eviction notice from her multi-million home with only 12 days notice during the pandemic
In a highly confessional post, she told her 54,000 followers: ‘Life is complicated at the moment.’
She shares frequent pictures of her family life and has been staying in the countryside
She is currently staying at her parents beautiful country home in Oxfordshire with her three children during the isolation period
In a highly confessional post in May, she told her 54,000 followers: ‘Life is complicated at the moment.
‘I’ve lost my travel business and have been told in the last week that we are shortly to be evicted from our home by the Russian government.
‘In fact, they gave me and my children twelve days notice, at the height of a global pandemic.
‘It’s difficult to sleep and focus but over many difficult years I have been tough on myself about staying in the moment, and taking pleasure out of the small things.
‘Reading is certainly one of those and in particular I hugely enjoy reading out loud to my children, especially if it’s Just William.’
The countess’s business ‘Travel With Alexandra’, which offers a ‘Tolstoy tour’ to Moscow and Polyana, cultural tour of Moscow and St Petersburg, and horse riding in Kyrgyzstan has been shut.
‘Reading is certainly one of those and in particular I hugely enjoy reading out loud to my children, especially if it’s Just William,’ Alexandra said, admitting it’s relieved her stress
Tolstoy has three children with the Sergei – Alexei, known as Aliosha, Ivan and Maria. (seen in the kitchen with her daughter)
The countess’s (seen enjoying cake in the garden) business ‘Travel With Alexandra’, which offers a ‘Tolstoy tour’ to Moscow and Polyana, cultural tour of Moscow and St Petersburg, and horse riding in Kyrgyzstan has been shut
Speaking in TV documentary The Countess and the Russian Billionaire, which aired on BBC2 earlier this year, Alexandra tells how her world came crumbling down around her when Pugachev fled to France in fear of his life after the Kremlin issued an arrest warrant, claiming he owes the state $1 billlion.
The former couple, who allowed cameras into their lives for five years for the documentary, are now completely estranged. Pugachev has cut off Alexandra and their children financially, she claims, and she now faces being left with ‘nothing’ after the Kremlin evicted them from their London townhouse.
As filming began in 2015, Alexandra offered cameras a tour of her lavish home in Battersea, south London, where her neighbours included Brian Ferry. ‘We have a PA, two housekeepers, two drivers, an English nanny, a Russian nanny and a French tutor,’ she said.
Sergei once owned two major shipyards, the world’s biggest mine and large chunks of real estate in Moscow and St Petersburg, as well as the Mezhprombank, which he co-founded in the 1990s.
The couple met in 2008 after Sergei hired Alexandra to help improve his English while they were both living in Russia, where Sergei was once-close friends with Putin.
But when Sergei revealed to ‘very close friend’ Putin that he was dating an English woman, the Russian leader was ‘very surprised’.
The family moved between an array of properties including a £12million family home in Battersea, a 200-acre country estate in Hertfordshire, and a £40million beachfront villa in St Barts.
But in 2008, Sergei’s bank hit problems and the Russian bank bailed it out with $1 billion loan.
Sergei, who left Russia in 2011, claims that after relations between him and Putin cooled, the Kremlin tried to seize or destroy his business empire.
The Russians then accused him of profiting from vast sums of taxpayers’ money given to Mezhprombank by the Russian central bank at the height of the 2008 economic crisis.
The Russian authorities froze his assets, put him on Interpol’s wanted list and obtained a court order in Britain forcing him to hand over his passports.
By 2015, he was dividing his time between France and the family home in London and reputed to be number 3 on Kremlin’s hitlist.
Sergei said he enjoyed a ‘very close’ friendship with Russian president Vladimir Putin before falling out with the state