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
Maxim Gorky
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Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, popularly known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian and Soviet writer, journalist, and proponent of socialism. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Befor
Yasnaya Polyana
…the important Russian cultural and artistic figures of his time at Yasnaya Polyana. His guests are known to have included Anton Chekhov, Ivan Turgenev, Maxim Gorky, the painters Valentin Serov, and Ilya Repin. In 1911, Tolstoy's widow Sofia Alexandrovna applied to Tsar Nicholas II to have Yasnaya Polyana made into…
Gorky in 1906
"Ex Libris Maxim Gorki" bookplate from his personal library depicts the unchained Prometheus rising from the pages of a book, breaking a multi-tailed whip and shooing away black crows. Saint Basil's Cathedral is portrayed in the background
Anton Chekhov and Gorky. 1900, Yalta
Leo Tolstoy with Gorky in Yasnaya Polyana, 1900