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Yasnaya Polyana museum-estate of Lev Tolstoi
He wrote War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Sunday and many other narratives, stories and articles. He is also one of the most famous Russian writers and thinkers of all time. All of Lev Tolstoy’s works are examples of moral and spiritual purity that cause readers themselves to reflect on the meaning of life, an individual’s search for spirituality and its meaning. Lev Tolstoy can be called the face of Russia in the eyes of the rest of the world, and rightly so. Yasnaya Polyana is one of the largest memorial museums in the world and was created almost 100 years ago. It is the Tolstoy family estate and the place where the great writer was born, wrote and lived. Almost everything at the museum has remained as it was during Tolstoy’s life and it is this atmosphere that helps visitors to better understand the essence and quest of Tolstoy’s genius and gain a different view of the life and creative...
Yasnaya Polyana museum-estate of Lev Tolstoi
He wrote War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Sunday and many other narratives, stories and articles. He is also one of the most famous Russian writers and thinkers of all time. All of Lev Tolstoy’s works are examples of moral and spiritual purity that cause readers themselves to reflect on the meaning of life, an individual’s search for spirituality and its meaning. Lev Tolstoy can be called the face of Russia in the eyes of the rest of the world, and rightly so. Yasnaya Polyana is one of the largest memorial museums in the world and was created almost 100 years ago. It is the Tolstoy family estate and the place where the great writer was born, wrote and lived. Almost everything at the museum has remained as it was during Tolstoy’s life and it is this atmosphere that helps visitors to better understand the essence and quest of Tolstoy’s genius and gain a different view of the life and creative...
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Yasnaya Polyana museum-estate of Lev Tolstoi
Alexandrovsky Palace
Alexander Palace were the final home of Russia’s tsars and the favourite residence of the Russian royal family. Nicholas II was born here and also taken from here into exile, where he was ultimately shot and killed. The park started out as a so-called “menagerie,” which served as the hunting grounds for the spouses of Peter the Great and Catherine I. Following the empresses wishes, the grounds were home to a wide variety of birds and animals. The forest gradually transformed into a park and the royal residence where great princes and princesses were raised. A gothic tower, artificial medieval ruins and a small house on a “children’s island” were all built for the sake of the young royals’ education. Nowadays museum exhibits and recreated interiors help to portray the history of the Romanov dynasty - from the Golden Age of Catherine II until the beginning of the 20th century.
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