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In the fall of 1910, fleeing what he considered to be an intolerable domestic situation, Tolstoy met death not at his home, but at a distant railway station known as Astapovo, some 250 miles ...
- William Brumfield
This rural backwater was transformed in 1889-90 with the building of Astapovo Station as part of the new Ryazan-Kozelsk Railway.
Ryazan Governorate (Russian: Рязанская губерния, romanized: Ryazanskaya guberniya) was an administrative-territorial unit of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, which existed from 1796 to 1929.
This is a list of governorates of the Russian Empire (Russian: губерния, pre-1918: губернія, romanized: guberniya) established between the administrative reform of 1708 and the establishment of the Kholm Governorate in 1912 (inclusive).
Leo Tolstoy, Russian Lev Nikolayevich, Count Tolstoy, (born Sept. 9, 1828, Yasnaya Polyana, Tula province, Russian Empire—died Nov. 20, 1910, Astapovo, Ryazan province), Russian writer, one of the world’s greatest novelists.
Tolstoy denounced the intervention by the Eight-Nation Alliance (which included Russia) in the Boxer Rebellion in China, the Filipino-American War, and the Second Boer War. Tolstoy praised the Boxer Rebellion and harshly criticized the atrocities of the Russian, German, American, Japanese, and other troops of the Eight-Nation alliance.
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Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой),was born on 9 September 1828 on the family estate Yasnaya Polyana, Tula governorate (province), Russian Empire and died 20 November 1910 at Astapovo, Ryazan governorate.
