Biography
Mikhail Tolstoy - one of the key figures in the conflict in the east of Ukraine. But the media of the warring parties position him in different ways: the cruel killer and in opposition - the militia and the defender. The name of the combat often appeared in the news: as a hero who performs feats for their people and deserving a monument, and the executioner, blindly followed propaganda.Childhood and youth
About the childhood of Tolstoy Mikhail Sergeevich knows little. He was born on July 19, 1980 in the city of Ilovaisk, located in the Donetsk region. In the biography of the family of Kombat, the information will differ. According to the stories of familiar guys (nickname) of refugees, the boy grew up in a disadvantaged family, where parents used alcohol, and the father constantly beat his mother. The head of the family was sitting in prison, after liberation did not work and drove away the money barely incoming. But the man himself refuted this information, although he did not tell about his personal life.
Other people argue that the Family of Tolstoy was the usual average. But well-being in it still was not, because of what Mikhail was grew by a closed child. It is known that it was not loved by classmates for negligence and cruelty.
With the study, Misha did not make shape, he did not want to learn. Often strolled classes on the outskirts of the city or was sitting in abandoned buildings. In school, he first tried drugs, and later began to drink in large quantities.
Before leaving the army, Mikhail studied in a technical school. In 1998 he came to the call and went to the 2-year service in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He was distributed to the "gum", where he was a tank commander. During the army, he received the nickname. Tolstoy talked about his roots and native grandfather, Georgian by nationality, who fought in the Great Patriotic War.
However, here we will have to once again encounter contradictions: refugees who know the combat personally, said, supposedly it is a lie. Mikhail Tolstoy did not pass a medical examination. The military board rejected the guy because of problems with speech and psyche.
Euromaidan
Since the beginning of the 2000s, he was engaged in industrial mountaineering and unloaded products on a cable factory. Before the events in the east of Ukraine also worked as a guard in the supermarket, a car wash and cleaner.
After Euromaida in Kiev, folk unrest began in Donetsk and Lugansk regions. Voluntary detachments were collected in these two areas. There, Mikhail Tolstoy finally turned into GIVI combat. From the first days was in the same detachment with Igor Girkin. He participated in the battles from Slavyansk and the Donetsk airport in the spring and summer of 2014. These chronicles instantly got into news reports, and the whole world watched the situation.
In the face of Givi was recognized for rigidity in relation to the prisoner soldiers of the Ukrainian army. On the video from the airport it is clear that the Kombat broke the chevrons from "Cyborg" (so called Ukrainian security officials) and forced them. On other frames, he is indicative kills the fighter. In the fall of the same year, the commander of the volunteer battalion "Somalia" is appointed, and then Colonel Sun DPR. In February 2015, the European Union introduces the name of the combat to the sanction list.
In 2016, the Military Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine accused Mikhail Tolstoy in bullying over prisoners of war and murders. For this he threatened a big prison sentence.
Personal life
About the personal life of Givi little told. It is known that he was married, but the family life with their wife did not come out. In 2001, Son Sergey was born in 2001. Now the guy is studying in a military charter and wants to continue his career on this field.
After the divorce with the first wife (the name is unknown), the Kombat did not build relationships with other women. Armed conflict in Ukraine finally put the point in this matter.
"I do not live virtuality - I live a reality. To be close to me very dangerous. Even be with me in one car is also dangerous. There are already three attempts, and I have no right to risk human lives. At the expense of personal life - I don't have it I didn't have any weddings. Now I, as I was, and remain a lonely person. To my great regret - honestly. I do not develop with my personal life "On a provocative question of a journalist one of the local newspapers about the birthday, where Guivi danced with different girls, a man replied that not everything that seems like. He did not give any hints for further relations, although they exchanged phone numbers. There, the Colonel admitted that he had a conflict solution in the first place, and not the arrangement of a family nest with a new wife with children.
Mikhail Tolstoy loved the sport very much and carefully followed the events in football and boxing. He was ill for the Ukrainian club "Shakhtar" and Spanish "Real Madrid".
He supported Russian politics, in particular, the Liberal Democratic Party, at the head of which is Vladimir Zhirinovsky. I did not recognize the new power in Ukraine, because the instability and destruction came with it. And Maidan, he said, was organized by high-ranking people from America, and not Ukrainians, striving to develop their state further.
Death
Killed Tolsty Mikhail Sergeevich on February 8, 2015 in the workplace. He was at the military base in Makeevka, when the office began to firing with projectiles from Flamet "Shmel". Other sources argue about the bomb in advance. The cause of death is injured incompatible with life.
In the Donetsk and Lugansk regions declared mourning for three days. Farewell to GIVI combat took place in the Opera and Ballet Theater in Donetsk. The ceremony was broadcast television channels in Russia. They showed a large number of people who came to the Panhid. Judging by the estimates, at least 50 thousand people came.
Mikhail Tolstoy's funeral took place in the cemetery called the Donetsk Sea, where the military gave him the last honors. The grave is located next to Arsen Pavlov, known as Motorola. In 2018, the profile in Twitter continues to behave.
On May 9, 2017, Alexander Zakharchenko took part in the shares of the "Immortal Regiment". He and Alexander Timofeev went through the streets with photos of Givi and Motorola.
Awards
- Hero of the Donetsk People's Republic
- Order of St. Nicholas 1st degree
- Order of St. Nicholas 2nd degree
- Two St. George Cross DNR
- Medal "For the defense of Slavyansk"
- Other DNR awards