Traveling Back in Time to Leo Tolstoy’s Home in Rural Russia
Still Revered 120 Years After His Death
Visiting the home of acclaimed novelist Leo Tolstoy in rural Yasnaya Polyana, Russia was other-worldly, certainly a trip through time. Though Tolstoy died in 1910, his estate looked just as he left it.
On the way to Tolstoy’s home, I observed numerous shanty-towns between Moscow and Tolstoy’s village. I saw tiny settlements of leaning wooden huts, set a…
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