Yasnaya Polyana
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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.
Tolstoy House
Kuzminsky House
Tula, Russia
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Tula is the largest city and the administrative center of Tula Oblast in Russia, located 193 kilometers south of Moscow. Tula is located in the northern Central Russian Upland on the banks of the Upa
Yasnaya Polyana
…Поля́на, IPA: , lit. 'Bright Glade') is a writer's house museum, the former home of the writer Leo Tolstoy. It is 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) southwest of Tula, Russia, and 200 kilometres (120 mi) from Moscow. Tolstoy was born in this house, where he wrote both War and Peace and Anna Karenina. He is buried…
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Up: Tula Kremlin, Museum of Weapons [ru], Assembly of the Nobility [ru]. Center: Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary [ru]. Down: Cathedral of the Dormition at Uspensky Convent [ru], Monument to gingerbread on Lenin Square, Administrative and production building for gingerbread trade
Tula in 1807
Aerial view of Tula
Metallistov Street