As you know, Leo Tolstoy received many visitors in Yasnaya Polyana. Journalists, writers, people experiencing a crisis of faith, curious tourists came to his...

“You need to write for children like you write for adults, but much better. An adult, having stumbled upon a bad book, will shrug his shoulders and discard t...

Three sisters, three daughters of the great writer, three characters, three destinies. Tatyana, Maria and Alexandra - each of Leo Tolstoy’s daughters became ...

This book presents a monographic study devoted to the spiritual and religious aspects of the artistic creativity of L. N. Tolstoy. Great importance is attach...

Family traditions in Yasnaya Polyana were protected by Sofya Andreevna Tolstaya. Her “Cookbook” is proof of this. The names of the dishes sound like this: ap...

At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries in Russia there were two places of mass pilgrimage - Yasnaya Polyana and Kronstadt. Why did crowds of people go sp...

Anecdotes about Russian writers, attributed to Daniil Kharms, were one of the most popular texts in Soviet samizdat. Quotes from them (“Leo Tolstoy loved chi...

This publication reveals the personal lives of Sofia Andreevna and Leo Tolstoy. How did this bright, extraordinary woman cope with the role of the wife of a ...

“There are two types of sociological research. Some researchers take the fate of society or civilization as the starting point, reduce the task of science to...