Lev Tolstobrov

1892-1926 (died age 34)

Founder of the Glorious Jayassia party (until 1926)

## **Early Life**

Lev Tolstobrov was born on February 19, 1892 in Pelvograd, the capital city of the Jayassian Empire. He was the son of Denis and Arina Tolstobrov. He was born in the more poor and agricultural sectors of the capital city. His family before him held a legacy of bankruptcy and being shunned and alienated from the rest of society.

In an attempt to escape the burden of poverty, the Tolstobrov family looked to the Jayassian Communist Party, an illegal political party bent on spreading the Karlist ideology of Communism to the Jayassian nation and her people. The JCP showed the Tolstobrovs a sense of comradery and support in times of desperate need. Admiring this, Lev became a major supporter of the JCP.

## **Communist Activism**

During his high school years, Lev helped the JCP efforts by spreading JCP communist propaganda, painting the image of the Tsardom in an extremely negative way in order to gain popularity among the unaligned anti-monarchists. Things changed however when the First World War began in 1910. Most of the JCP members were against the war, seeing as if the Jayassian Empire were to win the war, then the communists would lose support, while on the other hand, the 18 year old lev Tolstobrov supported the idea of the Jayassians going to war. In his eyes, the war could help the communist ideology spread much easier in times of chaos and when the incompetent dictators in charge were at their weakest.

This disagreement began to cause tension within the JCP. By 1915, the anti-war attitude shared by most of the JCP began to escalate as the war was drawing closer to a stalemate on the Eastern front. This enraged Tolstobrov who called out his comrades as cowards for not wanting to seek such a valuable opportunity. With this, many began to consider Lev more of a nationalist than a communist.

During this growing split, the Eastern front was beginning to collapse in favor of the Professional Alliance, and anti-war sentiment exploded in the country. Tolstobrov refused to believe what was going on. He felt betrayed by the JCP he felt he could trust. By 1918 the Jayassian Empire surrendered and came under the control of a weak and divided provisional government under the leadership of Tomas Smirnitsky. At this point, Tolstobrov felt that not only was he betrayed, but the Jayassian nation was betrayed by the hands of the Communist party. This was his breaking point, and he officially dropped out of the JCP by 1920.

## **Turning to the Right**

During his time away from the JCP, Lev Tolstobrov began to shift further away from Karlist communism and more towards the ideology of fascism started by Liborio Cirrito in Matiland. He began to feel more in line with the ideology where the people are unified through nationality rather than simple and pathetic financial class divisions.

Tolstobrov’s turning to the far right had only just begun. He created the Glorious Jayassia party with a team of underground Jayassian fascists. And in the wreckage of the Great War after 1918, the fascist party began to gain a massive wave of support, almost making it the second largest party in post-war Jayassia, with both the fascists and communists competing for dominance within the Jayassian Duma, and Tolstobrov was at the forefront of the fascist’s effort. With his leadership of the GJ party, he found himself as a new target of many JCP assassins.

When the Jayassian Civil War broke out in 1922, the fascists came together to decide how to respond to the unfolding crisis while the communists fought against the non-communist provisional government. However this would turn against the fascists before they could even make a move.

By July 1923, the Communists and provisional government began hunting down members of the fascist party, which led to many significant members being forced to evacuate the country and split apart. However not many would make it out of the country with their lives. Many would end up being arrested and being met with harsh punishment from whatever side they were captured by.

## **Death of the Fascist**

Tolstobrov’s legacy would be cut short by March 1926 as the Jayassian Civil War was coming to a close with the victory of the Jayassian Communists seeming the true victors of the war. The civil war caused many difficulties for those attempting to escape the violence. And Tolstobrov’s escape was no different. The border was too heavily fortified in Eastern Europe, refusing to allow any refugees from Jayassia to come through. This meant until a new escape plan was made, he had no other choice than to try and remain hidden from both the communists and provisional government.

On March 27, 1926, his luck in hiding ran out. He was discovered by a small unit of Jayassian Red Army soldiers who took him as a war prisoner, and was brought before the leaders of the JCP. Those in charge of the communist party recognized him as a former member of the party, and they ordered his execution by gunfire to occur three days later for treason and betrayal to the communists.

With that, the leading founder of Jayassian fascism came to a brutal, quick, and unexpected end. Being executed on March 30, 1926. Leadership of the Jayassian fascist party would be passed on to Dionisiy Nekrasov the following month to continue on the goals to take down the red menace and bring true glory and prosperity.