Russia Post issued a souvenir sheet to celebrate 100 years of Yasnaya Polyana Estate Museum on 10th June 2021 depicting the house of Leo Tolstoy, Sofia Andreevna and Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy and the towers of the entrance.
Yasnaya Polyana is a manor in the Shchekinsky district of the Tula region, founded in the XVII century and belonged first to the Kartsev family, then to the Volkonsky and Tolstoy families. In it, on August 28, 1828, Leo Tolstoy was born. For more than fifty years, he lived in the estate, he wrote about two hundred works, including such as "War and Peace", "Anna Karenina", many chapters of the novel "Resurrection"
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