Please join us in celebrating the life and work of Leo Tolstoy on the 186th anniversary of his birth.
Leo Tolstoy
was born in Yasnaya Polyana, the family estate in the Tula region of
Russia on this day
in 1828. The Tolstoys were a well-known family of old Russian nobility. He was the fourth of five children of Count Nikolai Ilyich Tolstoy, a veteran of the Patriotic War of 1812, and Countess Mariya Tolstaya (Volkonskaya).
in 1828. The Tolstoys were a well-known family of old Russian nobility. He was the fourth of five children of Count Nikolai Ilyich Tolstoy, a veteran of the Patriotic War of 1812, and Countess Mariya Tolstaya (Volkonskaya).
"He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking."
--from "Anna Karenina" (1875–1877)
--from "Anna Karenina" (1875–1877)
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