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Alexandra Tolstoy on her couture-clad life with a Russian oligarch - and rediscovering herself without him

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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.  ‘I went into this whole other world.

I remember the first time I arrived in Paris in jeans and a pair of Ugg boots. I went to the Plaza Athenee hotel and I thought, “oh my gosh I don’t fit in,”’ she tells me over the phone from her parents’ beautiful Oxfordshire home where she is seeing out the lockdown, and where five star hotels and all the other

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