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Alexandra Tolstoy on her couture-clad life with a Russian oligarch - and rediscovering herself without him
Wardrobes full of couture, endless priceless jewels and never-ending shopping trips. It’s the kind of fashion scenario dreams are made of, isn’t it? For Countess Alexandra Tolstoy, the fantasy became reality when she met billionaire Russian banker Sergei Pugachev in 2008 and left her then-husband, an impoverished Uzbek horseman called Shamil Galimzyanov, for a life of unimaginable luxury.
