Yasnaya Polyana is a writer's house museum, the former home of the writer Leo Tolstoy. It is 12 kilometres southwest of Tula, Russia, and 200 kilometres from Moscow.
The estate of Yasnaya Polyana
An avenue of birch trees leads from the gate at Yasnaya Polyana to Tolstoy's house.
Valentin Fyodorovich Bulgakov was the last secretary of Leo Tolstoy and his biographer. He served as the director of several literary museums and actively participated in Tolstoyan and pacifist initia