YASNAYA POLYANA, Russia — Deep in the Russian countryside, among the birch trees and pine forests that unfailingly stir the Russian soul, a resonant voice is being heard once more. It is a voice that ...

It was almost closing time in the Leo Tolstoy House-Museum at Yasnaya Polyana, the Tolstoy family estate. I stood in the bedroom of my great-great-grandmother, Sophia Andreevna, Leo Tolstoy’s wife. I ...

It is here that he wrote Anna Karenina and War and Peace, where he lived a spartan life and where he is buried­, marked only by flowers left by visitors. I have been an admirer of Tolstoy since I ...

Leo Tolstoy's 190th birth anniversary was celebrated at Yasnaya Polyana, the writer's house museum, on September 9, TASS reports. One of the central events of the celebrations was the 13th ...

MTS PJSC (MOEX: MTSS), a digital ecosystem, used the geo-analytical Geoeffect platform to analyze the tourist flow at the VIII Tolstoy Theater Festival, which took place at the Yasnaya Polyana Estate ...

An international seminar of translators of the works of Leo Tolstoy is opening today at the Museum-Estate Yasnaya Polyana, RIA Novosti reports. This year the seminar coincides with the 90th ...

The Yasnaya Polyana Award for the best foreign novel of the 21st century has been awarded to A Tale for the Time Being (Penguin Books) by Japanese-American author Ruth Ozeki. Founded by the Leo ...

We may forget today, however, that Tolstoy almost abandoned fiction for much of the second half of his life to concentrate on social issues that saw him become a figure whose opinions were listened to ...

At Tolstoy’s vast country estate, Yasnaya Polyana, everything is just as it was when the great writer died. His pen lies on his writing table. The simple peasant blouse he always wore hangs from a peg ...

The ticket window at Yasnaya Polyana, the country estate of Leo Tolstoy, Russia's greatest 19th-century novelist, is about the size of a standard sheet of letter paper, and it's at stomach level. When ...