Tolstoi descendant or usurper?

[Prof Steven P Hill]

Dear colleagues, particularly Tolstoi experts:

We all know that Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoi (1828-1910) had 
numerous descendants.  Presumably many of them were "the real 
McCoy" (i.e., genuine relatives of the writer-philosopher).

But then I encounter various references to a technical advisor on 
several Hollywood films*** between 1935 and 1962, who went by 
the name of  "Count Andrey (Andrei) Tolstoy."      Some sources 
mention that he may have been a former officer in the Russian Army.  
(Emphasis on "may"? -- SPH.)  He may have been a grand-nephew (pra-
plemiannik) of L N Tolstoi.  May have been this, may have been that.

Does any expert out there know for certain, whether this denizen of 
Hollywood bore any actual kinship, close or distant, to L N Tolstoi?

  *** "Anna Karenina" ('35), "Brothers Karamazov" ('58),  "Taras Bulba"
('62),  etc.  

Gratefully,
Steven P Hill,
University of Illinois.
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