ERBzine 1742: Aelita: Russian Princess of Mars? by Den Valdronhttps://www.erbzine.com/mag17/1742.html
or article or reference might be able to say definitely that Tolstoy read Princess, which would settle things. Or it might contain some definitive statement by Tolstoy
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