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Yasnaya Polyana
Yasnaya Polyana is the country estate and house-museum where Leo Tolstoy was born, lived, and wrote major works. The museum-estate preserves the manor house, outbuildings (stables, coach-house, wings), the school Tolstoy founded, formal and English-style gardens with ponds, and the clearing in the old forest where Tolstoy is buried. The site functions as a memorial, museum, and preserved historical landscape.
First raised
1921
Its prime
1910
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1910
What Yasnaya Polyana looked like in its prime.
A low, pale-painted manor ensemble of a central single-storey house with flanking wings, white masonry buildings and green metal roofs, set on a gentle slope beside avenues of birch and oak. Nearby are rows of apple trees and rectangular orchard plots, long gravel drives, a cascade of small ponds in an English landscape park, timber outbuildings and a stone Volkonskiy house. The estate is ringed by dense mixed forest; small white round gate towers with green roofs mark the entrance.
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10 places to explore in 1910.
The record describes 10 distinct spots at Yasnaya Polyana, including 3 interiors: tolstoy's study (writing desk and leather sofa), library with tolstoy's collection, kuzminsky wing — schoolroom. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and explore every one, more scenes means more photos, more angles and more of the immersive experience.
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Families who held Yasnaya Polyana.
The families tied to Yasnaya Polyana across its history, follow a name to its page.
Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy's lifelong family estate, inherited through his mother, born Princess Volkonskaya; he was born, wrote War and Peace, and is buried there.
