The cause of death of the ex-wife of Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Pyotr Tolstoy has become known

Peter Tolstoy. Photo: Vladimir Chistyakov

The Mash Telegram channel announced the preliminary cause of death of Daria Tolstoy (Evenko), the former wife of TV presenter and Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Peter Tolstoy. Earlier it was reported that a 54-year-old woman was found dead the day before in her apartment in Moscow on Potapovsky Lane.

“According to our information, the preliminary cause of death was brain oncology,” the report said.

According to the channel, shortly before her death, Daria Tolstaya called an ambulance due to a severe headache, but she refused hospitalization.

From open sources it is known that Peter Tolstoy and his ex-wife were the same age . They got married in 1992, when the future deputy chairman of the State Duma was graduating from the journalism department of Moscow State University and working in the Moscow bureau of the French newspaper Le Monde. The couple separated in 2017.