They would stay in his chateau in the south of France and had homes across the world. It was an idyllic life, beyond anyone's imagination. Countess Alexandra Tolstoy, an aristocratic English woman, had her own fairy tale come true when she fell in love with the man of her dreams in , an oligarch and one of Russia's richest men, Sergei Pugachev. The story begins five years ago in London, where the two were living a life of enviable luxury in their sprawling Chelsea home with their three young children. Then we bought the house next door.