Person DA·P·0003
A. K. Tolstoy
Russian writer and playwright (1817–1875), a second cousin of Leo Tolstoy. He wrote La famiglia del Vurdalak in French, the declared source for Bava’s film.
- Full name
- Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy DOC: Documented
- Not to be confused with
- Leo Tolstoy (second cousin) DOC: Documented
- Fantastic works
- La famiglia del Vurdalak; Upyr’ (1841) DOC: Documented
Contribution to horror culture
Tolstoy belongs to the first generation of Russian writers to rework the European Romantic vampire. His Vurdalak shifts horror from seduction to family¶ Editorial interpretationAn editorial reading, identified explicitly as interpretation., and this is the version that Bava’s cinema takes up.
Connections
3 direct connections · 32 further links. Dashed lines indicate weak or unproven links.
Films (1)
Black Sabbath
I tre volti della paura · Les Trois Visages de la peur
Sources (2)
La famiglia del Vurdalak
La famiglia del Vurdalak
Creatures (1)
Vurdalak
- Area
- Russia, Balkans
- Earliest attestations
- 19th century (literary form)
- Mario Bava person · via Black Sabbath
- Boris Karloff person · via Black Sabbath
- American International Pictures person · via Black Sabbath
- Anton Chekhov person · via Black Sabbath
- Guy de Maupassant person · via Black Sabbath
- Vampire creature · via Black Sabbath
- Revenant creature · via Black Sabbath
- The family vampire motif · via Black Sabbath
- The vampire child motif · via Black Sabbath
- Theft from the dead motif · via Black Sabbath
- The threatening telephone motif · via Black Sabbath
- The sound that announces the supernatural motif · via Black Sabbath
- The threshold and invitation belief or ritual · via Black Sabbath
- Italian Gothic collection · via Black Sabbath
- Dubbing glossary · via Black Sabbath
- Censorship glossary · via Black Sabbath
- Alternate cut glossary · via Black Sabbath
- Literary adaptation glossary · via Black Sabbath
- I tre volti della paura vs Black Sabbath version · via Black Sabbath
- The Vurdalak, from folklore to cinema bloodline · via Black Sabbath
- Eastern Europe place · via Black Sabbath
- Rome place · via Black Sabbath
- Black Sunday film · via Black Sabbath
- Night of the Devils film · via Black Sabbath
- Black Sabbath (band) person · via Black Sabbath
- The Chekhov credit: a source that cannot be found journal · via Black Sabbath
- Why Dread Atlas begins with I tre volti della paura journal · via Black Sabbath
- Sem’ja vurdalakov film · via La famiglia del Vurdalak
- Vienna place · via La famiglia del Vurdalak
- La Guzla source · via La famiglia del Vurdalak
- Vampires of Eastern Europe collection · via Vurdalak
- Strigoi creature · via Vurdalak
Revision history
- First draft.— Editorial team
How to cite this page
Redazione Dread Atlas, «A. K. Tolstoy», Dread Atlas, Entry DA·P·0003, updated 12 September 2026. https://macabralia.com/en/people/aleksej-tolstoj/