Yasnaya Poliana
| Day trip to Yasnaya Poliana. The State Memorial and Natural Reserve Museum-Estate
of Leo Tolstoy “Yasnaya Poliana” is located 200 km south of Moscow. Here L.Tolstoy
was born in 1828, here L.Tolstoy wrote many of his books (“War and Peace” among them)
and here his grave is situated.
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The Yasnaya Polyana estate is a unique natural preserve. Its old parks, orchards, and forests were witnesses to Leo Tolstoy’s life. The landscape ensemble of the Yasnaya Polyana estate has a history of more than two centuries. Leo Tolstoy’s great-grandfather, prince Sergey F. Volkonsky, had here a park of about ten acres. In the early 19 th century Prince Nikolay S. Volkonsky, the writer’s grandfather, created and realized his own project of the landscape and architectural design of the estate. In it he managed to find a felicitous combination of two styles existing in the Russian landscape architecture in those days – the French style (The "Wedges Park") and the English style (The English Park, or The "Lower Park). “All he had built here was not only solid and comfortable, but also very elegant. The same is true about the park he laid out near the house”, - wrote Leo Tolstoy about his grandfather
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