![]() ![]() ![]() During Tolstoy’s lifetime, it became a magnet for people who wanted to see the writer, ask for his advice, and sometimes ask for money. About 250,000 people visit the site per year. Today Yasnaya Polyana is a national shrine. ![]() ![]() This is where the Tolstoy family would congregate each evening for discussion. One of the more significant rooms was the zala (dining and living room) which housed a corner for serious talk. Rooms were immaculately furnished and maintained. A long avenue skirted by birch trees leads up to the estate that accommodates several rooms including Tolstoy’s bedroom and study. It is more estate than house a two-storied structure made of stone, conceived by Tolstoy’s grandfather, Count Volkonsky. Yasnaya Polyana (which means Beautiful Meadow in English) was where Tolstoy was born on Auginto the landowning gentry of pre-revolutionary Russia. The writer said, I cannot imagine Russia, or my relationship to her, without Yasnaya Polyana. As the Yorkshire surroundings of Emily Bronte’s birthplace influenced Wuthering Heights, and Charlotte Bronte’s hardships at a stern high school fed her with the image of Lowood in Jane Eyre, so too Tolstoy’s oeuvre fed on the characters and landscape of his estate. ![]()
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