A walk at Yasnaya Polyana

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An island of tranquility and harmony – so I could describe the famous Museum-reserve, located 14 km from Tula.

However, the status of nature reserve and memorial Museum the estate had not always. Until 1921 , it was the usual residential real estate, where he was born Leo Tolstoy in 1828, the year.

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A curious fact, that Fat the manor belonged not always. In the 17th century it is based Caravani and later passed into possession of the Volkonsky. By the way, the house of the Volkonsky (Tolstoy being the case) is the oldest building on all the territory of the estate.

 

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During the great Patriotic War manor in a month and a half was occupied by the German invaders, but almost all of the valuable exhibits were evacuated to Tomsk.
Here’s what I found in vospominaniyah leading employee of the Museum, tn. Arkhangelsk:

November 1 through the house briefly was Heinz Guderian. One of his officers came back and took two precious photos of Leo Tolstoy. The next day the entire top floor was turned into an officer hostel. In addition to the hospital, arranged in the Volkonsky house, the occupiers demanded the release of the room for the wounded Literary Museum, and then and the rooms of the house of the writer.

The whole area in front of the Literary Museum was filled with cars. Here they beat the chickens shoot the cows, he would spread you out carcasses… they came To the house a group of officers – one of them took three photographs of the Tolstoy…

Leaving Yasnaya Polyana, the Germans set it on fire, but the fire managed to extinguish and save the estate. In 1950-ies were carried out serious work on the restoration of the Museum.

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As many of you know already, Tolstoy himself buried on teriitorii estates, and the far corner that you walk decently. The tomb is located on the edge of a small ravine and looks more than modestly. However, whether you want Leo Tolstoy.

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Place of burial Tolstoy has an extraordinary history, which is connected with a legend about the green stick”. He even mentions in the first version of his will, where he asks to bury him in the woods the Old order in front of the ravine, in place of the green wand. And heard the legend of the Colon in childhood from his brother Nicolas, who at the age of twelve announced to his family that knows how to deliver humanity from death, poverty, war and disease, and to make all people the “ant brothers.” For this it was necessary only to find that the green stick, which is buried on the edge of the ravine, and read the great mystery that on a stick and recorded. In the “ant brothers,” the Tolstoy children were playing, sitting under a cloth covered chairs, and felt happy a family of closely and firmly related with each other.

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But separately want to say about the nature of Yasnaya Polyana. We came here at the beginning of may and walking on the tracks breathed in the smells of blossoming nature.

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In the reserve there are three pools: a large pond, middle pond and lower pond, as well as the “Wedges”Park.

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By the way, it is here that Tolstoy tried to implement their ideas about a harmonious and intelligent life. In Yasnaya Polyana he started his first school for peasant children, and it is about twenty of such schools in the surrounding villages.
Most of the time he paid to the improvement of the estate, expanding the gardens and planting, doing stud work.

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And in the end I want to add that to come to Yasnaya Polyana is necessary to calculate for the whole day. Believe me, but two or three hours is only enough to run the estate at an accelerated pace. But to enjoy this beauty it is necessary slowly, savoring all the beauty of local nature and admiring it.

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