The article runs about the methods of image creation of one of the most strange and ambiguous Leo Tolstoy’s characters – Fyodor Dolokhov. Except for the relations between this image and three prototypes well known in the literature studies (Fyodor Tolstoy-American, Rufin Dorokhov, Alexander Figner), we suppose that there is a significant connection between Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dolokhov because of the author’s attention to this character in his diary and many similar features (which Tolstoy wanted to restrain in himself to become a better person).