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The grave in Totnes of Count Michael Tolstoy Miloslavsky, a distant relative of the author Leo Tolstoy, whose family escaped from the Soviet Union in 1918 by being evacuated by the frigate HMS Marlborough. He joined the White Army and later the British Army. About 20 years later he was reunited with his family and lived for some time in Devon.