Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.

She moved to Moscow in the early 1980s and started working in the Nauka publishing house. Several collections of short stories by Tatyana Tolstaya are popular all over Russia and Tatyana Tolstaya is regarded by many as one of the foremost writers of today. Family
She was born in Leningrad into a family of rich literary tradition.