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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 Yasnaya Polyana Museum in the Tula Region is one of Russia's most popular tourist destinations and literary heritage sites. The number of people who want to see where the great writer...
Yasnaya Polyana, located just to the southwest of the city of Tula (115 miles from Moscow), became a pilgrimage site for Russians of all classes and for foreign visitors. Establishing a legacy...
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...
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.
