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Yasnaya Polyana (Russian: Я́сная Поля́на, IPA: [ˈjasnəjə pɐˈlʲanə], lit. 'Bright Glade') is a writer's house museum, the former home of the writer Leo Tolstoy. [1][2] It is 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) southwest of Tula, Russia, and 200 kilometres (120 mi) from Moscow. [3]
Yasnaya Polyana, village and former estate of the Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, in Tula oblast (region), west-central European Russia. It lies 100 miles (160 km) south of Moscow. Yasnaya Polyana (“Sunlit Meadows”) was acquired in 1763 by C.F. Volkonsky, Leo Tolstoy’s great grandfather.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Tolstoy spent most of his life here. Most researchers of Tolstoy's life and work agree that the most significant events in the writer's life are associated with Yasnaya Polyana.
- He wrote his best-known works here. Yasnaya Polyana was always a place of special creative inspiration for Tolstoy. He repeatedly stressed that its atmosphere helped him to work and stay focused.
- Tolstoy's house is a wing of a prior manor house. Many visitors are surprised by how modest Tolstoy’s house is. The famous writer did not like luxury and his home was in complete agreement with his worldview.
- Everything in the house dates from Tolstoy's days. In the Yasnaya Polyana Museum, one gets the feeling that Tolstoy has just gone out for a walk. Even his warm cardigan is left hanging on the chair.
- Establishing A Legacy
- The Call of Home
- Source of Inspiration
- Estate Buildings
The earliest mention of the estate dates to the middle of the 17th century. At that time, the lands around it were held by the Kartsevs (or Karpovs), a noble clan responsible for maintaining a regional line of defense against Crimean Tatar raids from the south. During the following century, the estate territory was divided among several different o...
Heavily indebted, in 1851 Tolstoy decided to join his beloved elder brother Nicholas in the army, which was then involved in a prolonged military campaign against Islamic insurgents in the Caucasus. With the outbreak of the Crimean War in 1853, Tolstoy’s military service moved to a new front. He participated in a number of campaigns, including the ...
For a while during the 1860s, life at Yasnaya Polyana seemed something close to a gentry idyll. Both husband and wife were involved with intensive work on the novel War and Peace. (Sonya copied multiple drafts from beginning to end.) Published serially between 1865 and 1869, the novel’s several parts were greeted by the public with increasing raptu...
When Tolstoy inherited the Yasnaya Polyana estate, the oldest part was the “Volkonsky House,” named after Tolstoy’s maternal grandfather, Prince Nicholas Volkonsky, who served as the prototype for the elderly Prince Nicholas Bolkonsky in War and Peace. Built probably in the late 18th century (before the arrival of Nicholas Volkonsky), the building ...
- William Brumfield
The Yasnaya Polyana estate is located in the very center of Middle Russia, with its quiet but strikingly moving nature, and is likewise modest, but beautiful and noble in its simplicity. The...
Yasnaya Polyana. An avenue of birch trees lines the path to Yasnaya Polyana, Tolstoy's birthplace. In Russian culture, birch trees are a symbol of lightness, grace, beauty, and of closeness...
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Yasnaya Polyana. Russia, Europe. Top choice in Western European Russia. This late 19th-century estate is where Leo Tolstoy wrote War and Peace and Anna Karenina, as well being the place he was born, lived most of his life and is buried.
