“L. N. Tolstoy in his study. Iasnaia Poliana, 1908. Photo by K. K. Bulla.”
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy. Iasnaia Poliana (Yasnaya Polyana) was the large estate Tolstoy was born in and returned to raise his family on later in his life. In 1908, Tolstoy was 80 years old and had already written all of his great novels. In fact, he had given up novel writing, seeing it as a lesser art and his talents better used in philosophical type writings. Although, many of his great short stories were still being written.
Oh, for those who have seen The Last Station, the couch on the right is most likely the one Tolstoy was born on.
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