Dame Helen Mirren has been nominated for Best Actress for her performance. She was nominated for Best Actress for her performance in The Last Station. She played role of Count Leo Tolstoy's tempestuous wife Sofya in The Last Station. She has already won one Oscar for 'The Queen' in 2007. Three years ago when Dame Helen, reunited with her long-lost family in Moscow, she vowed to make a film celebrating her Russian roots. 'The Last Station' features the passion of a woman who fears and fights against the loss of the privileged life that is threatened by the anarchic religious beliefs of her husband. Sofya fights against the writer's madcap desire to give up his property and worldly goods to humble peasants and servants. Helen said that character of Sofya resembles to her mom when she was working from West Ham. Media speculates that Helen's ancestry has motivated her to perform superb in the movie. Now, respected Russian historian Mikhail Mayorov, has uncovered that Helen has a blood relation with Tolstoys. According to the findings, she appears to be on the same family tree as Tatiana, known as Tanya, the eldest daughter of Tolstoy and Sofya. The link was established by respected Russian historian Mikhail Mayorov, an expert on the Tula region, south of Moscow. 'One of Helen's most distinguished ancestors was Field Marshal Mikhail Kamensky, her great-great-great-great-grandfather, who worked under Catherine the Great and whose mother Anna Alekseyevna Zybina was from the nobility in Tula,' says Mayorov. 'The Field Marshal's uncle's clan was linked by marriage to a man called Mikhail Sukhotin.' Tanya fell in love with Sukhotin, a married father of six but Tolstoy was bitterly opposed to their relationship. When Sukhotin's wife died, Tolstoy initially refused Tanya permission to marry him, relenting only in 1899, when she was 33. In 1925 Tanya emigrated from Russia to Paris, before moving to Italy for her final years.
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