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Valeria Dmitrieva, a researcher at the Traveling Exhibitions Department of the Yasnaya Polyana Museum-Estate, tells about the family customs and traditions of the count's family.
Valeria Dmitrieva
Before meeting Sofya Andreevna, Lev Nikolayevich, at that time a young writer and an enviable groom, had been trying to find a bride for several years. He was gladly received in houses where there were girls of marriageable age. He corresponded with many potential brides, looked, chose, evaluated ... And then one day a happy accident brought him to the house of the Berses, with whom he was familiar. This wonderful family brought up three daughters at once: the eldest Lisa, the middle Sonya and the youngest Tanya. Lisa was passionately in love with Count Tolstoy. The girl did not hide her feelings, and those around her already considered Tolstoy to be the eldest of the sisters. But Lev Nikolayevich had a different opinion.
The writer himself had tender feelings for Sonya Bers, which he hinted to her in his famous message.
On the card table, the count wrote with chalk the first letters of three sentences: “V. m. and p. s. With. and. n. m.m.s. and n. With. In c. With. With. l. V. n. m. and c. With. L. Z. m. from v. With. T". Later Tolstoy wrote that it was from this moment that his whole future life depended.
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, photo, 1868
According to his plan, Sofya Andreevna had to unravel the message. If she deciphers the text, then she is his destiny. And Sofya Andreevna understood what Lev Nikolaevich meant: “Your youth and the need for happiness remind me too vividly of my old age and the impossibility of happiness. There is a false view of me and your sister Lisa in your family. Protect me, you and your sister Tanechka. She wrote that it was providence. By the way, Tolstoy later described this moment in the novel Anna Karenina. It was with chalk on the card table that Konstantin Levin encrypted Kitty's marriage proposal.
Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya, 1860s
Happy Lev Nikolayevich wrote a marriage proposal and sent it to the Bers. Both the girl and her parents agreed. The modest wedding took place on September 23, 1862. The couple got married in Moscow, in the Kremlin Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Immediately after the ceremony, Tolstoy asked his young wife how she wanted to continue her family life: whether to go on a honeymoon abroad, whether to stay in Moscow with her parents, or move to Yasnaya Polyana. Sofya Andreevna replied that she immediately wanted to start a serious family life in Yasnaya Polyana. Later, the countess often regretted her decision and how early her girlhood ended and that she never went anywhere.
In the autumn of 1862, Sofya Andreevna moved to live in her husband's estate Yasnaya Polyana, this place became her love and her destiny. Both remember the first 20 years of their lives as very happy. Sofya Andreevna looked at her husband with adoration and admiration. He treated her with great tenderness, reverently and with love. When Lev Nikolaevich left the estate on business, they always wrote letters to each other.
Lev Nikolaevich:
“I am glad that this day was entertained for me, otherwise, dear, I was already scared and sad for you. It's funny to say: as I left, I felt how terrible it was to leave you. - Farewell, darling, be a good boy and write. 1865 July 27. Warrior.
“How sweet you are to me; how you are better for me, cleaner, more honest, dearer, sweeter than everyone in the world. I look at your children's portraits and rejoice. 1867 June 18. Moscow.
Sofia Andreevna:
“Lyovochka, dear darling, I really want to see you at this moment, and again in Nikolskoye to drink tea together under the windows, and run away on foot to Aleksandrovka and again live our sweet life at home. Farewell, darling, dear, I kiss you tightly. Write and take care of yourself, this is my testament. July 29, 1865"
“My dear Lyovochka, I survived the whole day without you, and with such a joyful heart I sit down to write to you. This is my real and greatest consolation to write to you even about the most insignificant things. June 17, 1867"
“It is such a labor to live in the world without you; everything is not right, everything seems wrong and not worth it. I did not want to write you anything like that, but it broke so badly. And everything is so cramped, so petty, something better is needed, and this is the best - it's only you, and you are always alone. September 4, 1869"
Fat people loved to spend time with the whole big family. They were great inventors, and Sofya Andreevna herself managed to create a special family world with her own traditions. Most of all, this was felt during family holidays, as well as at Christmas, Easter, Trinity. They were very much loved in Yasnaya Polyana. The Tolstoy went to the liturgy at the parish church of St. Nicholas, located two kilometers south of the estate.
For a festive dinner, a turkey and a signature dish - Ankov pie were served. Sofya Andreevna brought his recipe to Yasnaya Polyana from her family, to whom it was given by the doctor and friend Professor Anke.
Tolstoy's son Ilya Lvovich recalls:
“Since I can remember myself, on all solemn occasions of life, on big holidays and on name days, the “Ankov pie” has always and invariably been served in the form of a cake. Without this, the dinner was not a dinner and the celebration was not a celebration.
Summer at the estate turned into an endless holiday with frequent picnics, tea parties with jam and outdoor games. They played croquet and tennis, swam in the Funnel, and went boating. They organized musical evenings, home performances ...
The Tolstoy family playing tennis. From the photo album of Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya
We often dined in the yard, and drank tea on the veranda. In the 1870s, Tolstoy brought such fun to children as "giant steps". This is a large pole with ropes tied at the top, on which there is a loop. One leg was inserted into the loop, the other was pushed off the ground and thus jumped. The children liked these "giant steps" so much that Sofya Andreevna recalled how difficult it was to tear them away from the fun: the children did not want to eat or sleep.
At 66, Tolstoy began cycling. The whole family worried about him, wrote letters to him so that he would leave this dangerous occupation. But the count said that he was experiencing sincere childish joy and in no case would he leave the bicycle. Lev Nikolayevich even studied cycling at the Manezh, and the city council issued him a ticket with permission to ride the streets of the city.
Moscow city government. Ticket number 2300 issued to Tolstoy for cycling through the streets of Moscow. 1896
In winter, the Tolstoys enthusiastically skated, Lev Nikolaevich loved this business very much. He spent at least an hour at the rink, taught his sons, and Sofya Andreevna taught his daughters. Near the house in Khamovniki, he poured the ice rink himself.
Traditional home entertainment in the family: reading aloud and literary bingo. Excerpts from works were written on the cards, it was necessary to guess the name of the author. In later years, Tolstoy was read an excerpt from Anna Karenina, he listened and, not recognizing his text, highly appreciated it.
The family loved to play in the mailbox. Throughout the week, family members dropped leaflets with anecdotes, poems, or notes about what was bothering them into it. On Sunday the whole family sat in a circle, opened the mailbox and read aloud. If they were playful poems or short stories, they tried to guess who could write it. If personal experiences - understood. Modern families can take advantage of this experience, because we now talk so little with each other.
By Christmas, a Christmas tree was always put up in the Tolstoy house. They prepared decorations for it themselves: gilded nuts, figurines of animals cut out of cardboard, wooden dolls dressed in different costumes, and much more. A masquerade was organized on the estate, in which both Lev Nikolaevich and Sofya Andreevna, and their children, and guests, and courtyards, and peasant children took part.
“On Christmas Day 1867, the Englishwoman Hannah and I longed to make a Christmas tree. But Lev Nikolaevich did not like either Christmas trees or any festivities and then strictly forbade buying toys for children. But Hannah and I asked permission for a Christmas tree and for us to be allowed to buy Serezha only a horse, and Tanya only a doll. We decided to call both yard and peasant children. For them, in addition to various sweet things, gilded nuts, gingerbread and other things, we bought naked wooden skeleton-dolls, and dressed them in a wide variety of costumes, to the great delight of our children ... about 40 guys gathered from the household and from the village, and the children and I were joyfully handing out everything from the Christmas tree to the children.
Skeleton dolls, English plum pudding (a pudding doused with rum was lit while serving), a masquerade become an integral part of the Christmas holidays in Yasnaya Polyana.
Sofya Andreevna was mainly engaged in the upbringing of children in the Tolstoy family. The children wrote that most of the time their mother spent with them, but they all respected their father very much and were afraid in a good way. His word was the last and decisive, that is, the law. The children wrote that if they needed a quarter for something, they could go up to their mother and ask. She will ask in detail what you need, and with persuasion to spend carefully will give money. And it was possible to approach the father, who would simply look at point-blank range, burn with his eyes and say: “Take it on the table.” He looked so penetratingly that everyone preferred to beg for money from their mother.
Lev Nikolaevich and Sofya Andreevna Tolstoy with family and guests. September 1-8, 1892
A lot of money in the Tolstoy family was spent on the education of children. All of them received a good primary education at home, and the boys then studied at the Tula and Moscow gymnasiums, but only the eldest son Sergei Tolstoy graduated from the university.
The most important thing that children in the Tolstoy family were taught was to be sincere, kind people and treat each other well.
In the marriage of Lev Nikolaevich and Sofya Andreevna, 13 children were born, but only eight of them survived to adulthood.
The most difficult loss for the family was the death of the last son of Vanechka. When the baby was born, Sofya Andreevna was 43 years old, Lev Nikolaevich - 59 years old.
Vanechka Tolstoy
Vanya was a real peacemaker and united the whole family with his love. Lev Nikolayevich and Sofya Andreevna loved him very much and experienced an untimely death from scarlet fever of their youngest son, who did not live to see seven years of age.
“Nature is trying to give the best and, seeing that the world is not yet ready for them, takes them back ...”, - Tolstoy said these words after the death of Vanechka.
In the last years of his life, Lev Nikolaevich did not feel well and often gave his relatives cause for serious concern. In January 1902 Sofya Andreevna wrote:
“My Lyovochka is dying ... And I realized that my life cannot remain in me without him. I have lived with him for forty years. For everyone he is a celebrity, for me he is my whole existence, our lives went one into another, and, my God! How much guilt, repentance has accumulated ... It's all over, you can't return it. Help, Lord! How much love and tenderness I gave him, but how much of my weaknesses grieved him! Forgive me, Lord! Forgive me, my dear, dear dear husband!”
But Tolstoy understood all his life what a treasure he got. A few months before his death, in July 1910, he wrote:
“My assessment of your life with me is as follows: I, a depraved, deeply vicious sexually man, no longer my first youth, married you, a clean, good, smart 18-year-old girl, and despite this, my dirty, vicious past you for almost 50 years she lived with me, loving me, working, hard life, giving birth, feeding, raising, caring for children and me, not succumbing to those temptations that could so easily seize any woman in your position, strong, healthy, beautiful. But you lived in such a way that I have nothing to reproach you with.”
September 9 marks the 190th anniversary of Leo Tolstoy. Today his name is known even to those who have not read any of his lines. And everyone keeps in mind their own image of the great Leo, which was mainly formed in his later years.
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And it happened so because in the last years of Tolstoy's life, photographers staged a real photo hunt for him. Tolstoy began to be photographed at his desk, in an open field, at a meal, and even in a wheelchair (as in the photo above), as was the case in the Crimea in 1901-1902. and at Yasnaya Polyana during his 80th birthday in 1908. This anniversary was widely celebrated in Russia, but Tolstoy himself did not celebrate, he fell seriously ill. This photo is also interesting because here we see Tolstoy in permanent home clothes - a simple coarse-knit jacket, which is still kept in the Yasnaya Polyana house-museum.
Photo: State Museum of Leo Tolstoy
This photo was taken in the summer of 1905 by his student Vladimir Chertkov, when the writer was returning from swimming on the Voronka River. Here Tolstoy is all - in his humility and pride. A great man is always alone on this earth. But to whom did he take off his hat? Before Russia? Before God? No, the old man just got hot ...
Photo: State Museum of Leo Tolstoy
But in this photo, which Chertkov also took, we see the formidable Lion. You can't hide from his gaze, he sees right through you. Before him you can not lie, flirt, pose. This old man will crack at the first interrogation.
However, what else to expect from the man who wrote "War and Peace", "Anna Karenina" and "Hadji Murat"?
Photo: State Museum of Leo Tolstoy
In this photo we see Tolstoy in the most familiar position - at his desk. He's all at work. On the wall is the beloved "Madonna" by Raphael, a lithograph, which was presented by aunt Alexandra Andreevna Tolstaya - the maid of honor of the imperial court. On the shelf is a long row of spines of the Brockhaus and Efron Dictionary - Wikipedia of the early twentieth century. Under it are different books, but among them are the main ones: the Bible and the Koran.
Photo: State Museum of Leo Tolstoy
In this photo we see Tolstoy at the most inopportune moment for filming. He just eats. The photo is fuzzy, amateurish, but that's what makes it good. This is a living Tolstoy, an ordinary person. But even here it is not easy. A plate of porridge is on a saucepan so that it does not cool down. However, a gravy boat ... Or - honey? Simple but tasteful!
Many have tried to capture Leo in a camera lens in order to keep their picture for eternity. This hunt, of course, greatly annoyed him.
By the way, she also became one of the reasons for the flight of the 82-year-old old man from Yasnaya Polyana in the late autumn of 1910.
But what's interesting...
Photo: State Museum of Leo Tolstoy
He was the first to "hunt" himself. This photo is probably the world's first selfie taken by a famous person. In 1862 (the year of his marriage) he bought an invention that was still rare in Russia - a camera. The apparatus was so bulky and heavy that it had to be carried on a cart drawn by two horses; one horse did not pull the load over the Russian impassability. Tolstoy set up the "unit" himself, prepared the plate for photography (it was not an easy process), and "filmed himself" (as it was written in his hand in the left corner) with the help of a special "pear". "I shot myself" - that is, in modern terms, a selfie.
Here's a retrograde for you!
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was born on September 9, 1828 in the Krapivensky district of the Tula province, in the hereditary estate of his mother - Yasnaya Polyana. For the birthday of one of the greatest writers in the world, we bring to your attention a set of postcards “L. N. Tolstoy in the photographs of his contemporaries” with some comments…
Lev Nikolaevich, being the fourth child in the family, was born in 1828 in Yasnaya Polyana, the estate of Maria Nikolaevna's mother. Early enough, the children were left without parents and their father's relatives took care of them. Nevertheless, very bright feelings remained about the parents. Father, Nikolai Ilyich, was remembered as honest and never humiliated before anyone, a very cheerful and bright person, but with eternally sad eyes. About the mother, who died very early, I would like to note one found quote from the memoirs of Lev Nikolayevich:
“She seemed to me such a high, pure, spiritual being that often in the middle period of my life, during the struggle with the temptations that overwhelmed me, I prayed to her soul, asking her to help me, and this prayer always helped me”
P. I. Biryukov. Biography of L. N. Tolstoy.
Moscow, 1851. Photo from Mather's daguerreotype.
This biography is also notable for the fact that L.N. himself took part in editing and writing it.
In the photo above, Tolstoy is 23 years old. This is the year of the first literary attempts, the sprees, maps and random companions in life familiar to that time, which, later, were described in War and Peace. However, the first school for serfs was opened by him four years before. Also, 1851 is the year of entry into military service in the Caucasus.
Tolstoy the officer was very successful and, if not for the reaction of the authorities to the sharp pamphlet in 1855, the future philosopher would have been under stray bullets for a long time.
1854 Photo from a daguerreotype.
The brave warrior, who showed his best side during the Crimean War, was finishing the “Sevastopol Tales” already in the rear, in St. Petersburg. Acquaintance with Turgenev brought Tolstoy close to the editorial board of the Sovremennik magazine, where some of his stories were also published.
Editorial board of the journal "Sovremennik", St. Petersburg. Standing from left to right: L. N. Tolstoy, D. V. Grigorovich. Seated: I.A. Goncharov, I.S. Turgenev, A.V. Druzhinin, A.N. Ostrovsky. Photo by S.L.Levitsky.
1862, Moscow. Photo by M.B. Tulinov.
Perhaps, Tolstoy is characterized in an important way by the fact that while in Paris, he, a participant in the heroic defense of Sevastopol, was unpleasantly struck by the cult of Napoleon I and the guillotining, at which he happened to be present. Later, the characteristics of the orders that reigned in the army will emerge in 1886, in the famous “Nikolai Palkin” - the story of the old veteran will again shock Tolstoy, who served only in the army and did not face the senseless cruelty of the army as a means of punishing the recalcitrant poor. The vicious judicial practice and their own inability to protect the innocent will also be mercilessly criticized in “Memoirs of the Trial of a Soldier”, which tells about 1966.
But a sharp and irreconcilable criticism of the existing order is yet to come, the 60s became years of enjoying a happy family life with a loving and beloved wife, who did not always accept, but always understood her husband’s thoughts and actions. At the same time, "War and Peace" was written - from 1865 to 68.
1868, Moscow.
It is difficult to find an epithet for Tolstoy's activities before the 80s. Anna Karenina is being written, and there are many other works that later earned a low rating from the author in comparison with later work. This is not yet the formulation of answers to fundamental questions, but the preparation of the foundation for them.
L. N. Tolstoy (1876)
And in 1879, the "Study of Dogmatic Theology" appeared. In the mid-80s, Tolstoy organized the publishing house of books for popular reading "Intermediary", many stories were written for him. One of the milestones in the philosophy of Lev Nikolaevich comes out - the treatise “What is my faith?”
1885, Moscow. Photo of Scherer and Nabholz firm.
LN Tolstoy with his wife and children. 1887
The 20th century was marked by a sharp controversy with the Orthodox Church and excommunication from it. Tolstoy took an active part in public life, criticizing the Russo-Japanese War and the social structure of the empire, which was already beginning to burst at the seams.
1901, Crimea. Photo by S.A. Tolstoy.
1905, Yasnaya Polyana. Leo Tolstoy returns from swimming on the Voronka River. Photo by V. G. Chertkov.
1908, Yasnaya Polyana. Leo Tolstoy with his beloved horse Delir. Photo by K.K.Bulla.
1908, Yasnaya Polyana. At the terrace of the Yasnaya Polyana house. Photo by S.A. Baranov.
1909 In the village of Krekshino. Photo by V. G. Chertkov.
1909, Yasnaya Polyana. LN Tolstoy in the office at work. Photo by V. G. Chertkov.
The entire large family of Tolstoy often gathered at the family estate of Yasnaya Polyana.
1908 Leo Tolstoy's house in Yasnaya Polyana. Photo by K.K.Bulla.
1892, Yasnaya Polyana. Leo Tolstoy with his family at the tea table in the park. Photo by Scherer and Nabholz.
1908, Yasnaya Polyana. Leo Tolstoy with his granddaughter Tanechka. Photo by V. G. Chertkov.
1908, Yasnaya Polyana. LN Tolstoy plays chess with MS Sukhotin. From left to right: T.L. Tolstaya-Sukhotina with M.L. Tolstoy's daughter Tanya Tolstaya, Yu.I. Igumnova, L.N. Tolstoy, A.B. Vanya Tolstoy, M.S. Sukhotin, M.L. Tolstoy, A.L. Tolstoy. Photo by K.K.Bulla.
L. N. Tolstoy tells the tale of the cucumber to the grandchildren Ilyusha and Sonya, 1909,
Despite the pressure of the church, many famous and respected people maintained close relations with Lev Nikolayevich.
1900, Yasnaya Polyana. L.N. Tolstoy and A.M. Gorky. Photo by S.A. Tolstoy.
1901, Crimea. L.N. Tolstoy and A.P. Chekhov. Photo by S.A. Tolstoy.
1908, Yasnaya Polyana. L.N. Tolstoy and I.E. Repin. Photo by S.A. Tolstoy.
In the last year of his life, Tolstoy secretly left his family in order to live the remaining time according to his own worldview. On the way, he fell ill with pneumonia and died at the Astapovo station in the Lipetsk region, which now bears his name.
Tolstoy with his granddaughter Tanya, Yasnaya Polyana, 1910
1910 In the village of Calm. Photo by V. G. Chertkov.
Most of the photographs presented above were taken by Karl Karlovich Bulla, Vladimir Grigorievich Chertkov and the wife of the writer Sofya Andreevna. Karl Bulla is a famous photographer of the late 19th - early 20th centuries, who left a colossal legacy, which today largely determines the visual representation of that bygone era.
Carl Bulla (from Wikipedia)
Vladimir Chertkov is one of Tolstoy's closest friends and associates, who became one of the leaders of Tolstoyism and the publisher of many of Leo Nikolayevich's works.
Leo Tolstoy and Vladimir Chertkov
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy. First color photograph. First published in the Notes of the Russian Technical Society.
In the memoirs of another associate of Tolstoy - Pavel Alexandrovich Boulanger - a mathematician, engineer, writer, who introduced Russian readers to the biography of the Buddha (published to this day!) And the main ideas of his teaching, Tolstoy's words are quoted:
God gave me the highest happiness - he gave me such a friend as Chertkov.
Sofya Andreevna, nee Bers, was a faithful companion of Lev Nikolaevich and it is difficult to overestimate all the support she gave him.
S. A. Tolstaya, ur. Bers (from Wikipedia)
Leo Tolstoy near the terrace of the Yasnaya Polyana house, May 11, 1908, Tula province., Krapivensky district, village. Yasnaya Polyana. Among Tolstoy's numerous visitors on the eve of his 80th birthday, a folk teacher from Siberia, IP Sysoev, who had previously visited America, came to Yasnaya Polyana. He asked Lev Nikolaevich for permission to photograph him for the Americans. The photographer Baranov, brought by Sysoev, took these photographs on May 11, the day when Tolstoy was strongly impressed by the report he had read in the newspaper Rus about the execution of twenty Kherson peasants. On that day, Lev Nikolaevich dictated into the phonograph the beginning of the article on the death penalty - the original version of "I can not be silent."
Photo Baranov S. A.
Leo Tolstoy playing gorodki, 1909, Tula province, Krapivensky district, village Yasnaya Polyana. In the background on the left is the grandson of Ilya Andreevich Tolstoy, on the right is the son of the servant Alyosha Sidorkov. “With me,” recalls Valentin Fyodorovich Bulgakov, “Lev Nikolayevich, at 82, played towns with Alyosha Sidorkov ... the son of the old Yasnaya Polyana servant Ilya Vasilyevich Sidorkov. There is a photograph depicting Tolstoy's "blow". Of course, he could no longer play “seriously” for a long time: he just “tried his strength””. 1909
Tapsel Thomas
Leo Tolstoy with his family, 1892, Tula province, Krapivensky district, village Yasnaya Polyana. From left to right: Misha, Leo Tolstoy, Lev, Andrey, Tatyana, Sofya Andreevna Tolstaya, Maria. Vanechka and Alexandra are in the foreground.
Photo studio "Scherer, Nabgolts and Kº"
Leo Tolstoy riding a Dawn, 1903, Tula province, Krapivensky district, village. Yasnaya Polyana. Many contemporaries of Leo Tolstoy admired his skill as a rider, including Vladimir Vasilyevich Stasov: “But as soon as he sat down, it’s just a miracle! The whole will gather, the legs seem to have merged with the horse, the body is a real centaur, it will tilt its head a little, - and the horse ... dances and knocks under him with its feet, like a fly ... ".
Leo and Sophia Tolstoy, 1895, Tula province, Krapivensky district, village. Yasnaya Polyana. The first mention of Tolstoy riding a bicycle is in a letter to his daughter Tatyana Lvovna dated April 16, 1894: “We have a new hobby: cycling. Papa spends hours studying on it, riding and circling along the alleys in the garden ... This is Alexei Maklakov’s bicycle, and tomorrow we will send it to him so as not to break it, otherwise it will probably end like this.
Photo Tolstaya Sofia Andreevna
Leo Tolstoy with relatives and friends, including the artist Nikolai Ge, 1888, Tula province, Krapivensky district, village. Yasnaya Polyana. Standing from left to right: Alexander Emmanuilovich Dmitriev-Mamonov (artist's son), Misha and Maria Tolstoy, M. V. Mamonov, Madame Lambert (governess); sitting: Sasha Tolstaya, Sofya Andreevna Tolstaya, Alexander Mikhailovich Kuzminsky (husband of Tatyana Kuzminskaya), artist Nikolai Nikolaevich Ge, Andrey and Lev Tolstoy, Sasha Kuzminsky, Tatyana Andreevna Kuzminskaya (sister of Sofya Andreevna Tolstaya), Mikhail Vladimirovich Islavin, Vera Alexandrovna Kuzminskaya, Misha Kuzminsky, Miss Chomel (governess of the Kuzminsky children); in the foreground - Vasya Kuzminsky, Lev and Tatyana Tolsty. For 12 years of friendship with Tolstoy, Ge painted only one pictorial portrait of Tolstoy. In 1890, at the request of Sophia Andreevna Tolstoy Ge, he sculpted a bust of Tolstoy - the first sculptural image of the writer, and even earlier, in 1886, he completed a series of illustrations for Tolstoy's story "What makes people alive"
Photo by Abamelek-Lazarev S.S.
Leo Tolstoy playing tennis, 1896, Tula province, Krapivensky district, village Yasnaya Polyana. From left to right: Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, Maria Lvovna Tolstaya, Alexandra Lvovna Tolstaya, Nikolai Leonidovich Obolensky (son of Tolstoy's niece Elizaveta Valeryanovna Obolenskaya, since June 2, 1897 - husband of Maria Lvovna Tolstaya).
Photo Tolstaya Sofia Andreevna
Leo Tolstoy and Maxim Gorky, October 8, 1900, Tula province, Krapivensky district, village. Yasnaya Polyana. This was the second meeting of the writers. “I was in Yasnaya Polyana. I took away a huge pile of impressions from there, which to this day I can’t figure out ... I spent the whole day there from morning to evening, ”Alexei Maksimovich Gorky wrote to Anton Pavlovich Chekhov in October 1900.
Tolstaya Sofia Andreevna
Leo Tolstoy, land surveyor and peasant Prokofy Vlasov, 1890, Tula province, Krapivensky district, village.
Yasnaya Polyana. Adamson Photos
Leo Tolstoy with his family under the "tree of the poor", September 23, 1899, Tula province., Krapivensky district, village. Yasnaya Polyana. Standing: Nikolai Leonidovich Obolensky (son of Tolstoy's niece Elizaveta Valeryanovna Obolenskaya, since June 2, 1897 - husband of Maria Lvovna Tolstoy), Sofya Nikolaevna Tolstaya (Leo Tolstoy's daughter-in-law, since 1888 the wife of his son Ilya) and Alexandra Lvovna Tolstaya. Seated from left to right: grandchildren Anna and Mikhail Ilyichi Tolstoy, Maria Lvovna Obolenskaya (daughter), Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, Sofya Andreevna Tolstaya with her grandson Andrei Ilyich Tolstoy, Tatyana Lvovna Sukhotina with Volodya (Ilyich) in her arms, Varvara Valeryanovna Nagornova (niece of Leo Tolstoy, the eldest daughter of his sister Maria Nikolaevna Tolstoy), Olga Konstantinovna Tolstaya (wife of Andrei Lvovich Tolstoy), Andrei Lvovich Tolstoy with Ilya Ilyich Tolstoy (grandson of Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy).
Photo Tolstaya Sofia Andreevna
Leo Tolstoy and Ilya Repin, December 17 - 18, 1908, Tula province, Krapivensky district, village. Yasnaya Polyana. The photograph refers to the last visit to Yasnaya Polyana by Ilya Efimovich Repin, taken at the request of his wife Natalya Borisovna Nordman-Severova. During almost thirty years of friendship, Tolstoy and Repin were photographed together for the first time.
Tolstaya Sofia Andreevna
Leo Tolstoy on a bench under the "tree of the poor", 1908, Tula province, Krapivensky district, village. Yasnaya Polyana. In the background Sofya Andreevna Tolstaya and four peasant boys.
Photo Kulakov P. E.
Leo Tolstoy and a peasant petitioner, 1908, Tula province, Krapivensky district, village. Yasnaya Polyana. Ivan Fedorovich Nazhivin wrote down the words of Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy: “To love the distant, humanity, the people, to wish them well is not a tricky business ... No, you’ve got to love your neighbors, love your neighbors, those whom you meet every day, who sometimes get bored, they annoy, they interfere, - love them, do good to them! .. Here I am walking in the park the other day and thinking. I hear some woman walking behind and asking for something. And I just had an idea that I needed to work on. “Well, what do you need?” I say impatiently to the woman. “What are you bothering about?” But it's good that now he came to his senses and recovered. And then it happens, you realize it too late.
Bulla Karl Karlovich
Leo Tolstoy, July 1907, Tula province., Der. Ash trees. Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy was filmed on one of the hot days of July 1907 in the village of Yasenki, where the Chertkovs lived at that time. According to an eyewitness, Bulgarian Hristo Dosev, the photo was taken after a heart-to-heart conversation between Tolstoy and one of his associates. “At the same time,” writes Dosev, “Chertkov prepared his photographic apparatus in the yard, wanting to take a portrait of L.N. But when he asked him to pose for him, L.N., who almost always peacefully agreed to this, this time did not want to. He furrowed his eyebrows and could not hide his unpleasant feeling. "There's an interesting, important conversation about a person's life, but here you're doing stupid things," he said irritably. But, having surrendered to the requests of VG, he went to stand. Apparently, having tamed himself, he joked with Chertkov. "He keeps shooting! But I'll take revenge on him. I'll take some car and, when he starts shooting, I'll douse him with water! And I laughed merrily."
Leo and Sofya Tolstoy on the 34th wedding anniversary, September 23, 1896, Tula province, Krapivensky district, village. Yasnaya Polyana
Photo Tolstaya Sofia Andreevna
Leo Tolstoy plays chess with Vladimir Chertkov, June 28 - 30, 1907, Tula province, Krapivensky district, village. Yasnaya Polyana. On the right you can see the reverse of the portrait of Leo Tolstoy, on which the artist Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov was working at that time. During the sessions, Tolstoy often played chess. The eighteen-year-old son of Vladimir Chertkov Dima (Vladimir Vladimirovich Chertkov) was one of his most "unyielding" partners.
Photo Chertkov Vladimir Grigorievich
Leo Tolstoy with his granddaughter Tanya Sukhotina, 1908, Tula province, Krapivensky district, village. Yasnaya Polyana. In his diary, Lev Nikolaevich wrote: “If I were given a choice: to populate the earth with such saints as I can imagine, but only so that there are no children, or such people as now, but with children constantly arriving fresh from God, “I would choose the latter.”
Chertkov Vladimir Grigorievich
Leo Tolstoy with his family on the day of his 75th birthday, 1903, Tula province, Krapivensky district, village. Yasnaya Polyana. Standing from left to right: Ilya, Lev, Alexandra and Sergei Tolstoy; seated: Mikhail, Tatyana, Sofya Andreevna and Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Andrey.
Leo Tolstoy is having breakfast on the terrace of a house in Gaspra, December 1901, Tauride Gubernia, village. Gaspra. From the diary of Sofya Andreevna Tolstoy: “... it is difficult, terribly, sometimes unbearable with his stubbornness, tyranny and complete lack of knowledge of medicine and hygiene. For example, doctors tell him to eat caviar, fish, broth, but he is a vegetarian and this destroys himself ... ".
Photo Tolstaya Alexandra Lvovna
Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov in Gaspra, September 12, 1901, Tauride Province, village. Gaspra. The writers met in 1895 in Yasnaya Polyana. The photo was taken on the terrace of Sofya Vladimirovna Panina's dacha.
Photo by Sergeenko P.A.
Leo Tolstoy with his daughter Tatyana, 1902, Taurida province, pos. Gaspar
Photo Tolstaya Sofia Andreevna
Leo Tolstoy with his daughter Alexandra on the seashore, 1901, Taurida Province, village. Miskhor
Photo Tolstaya Sofia Andreevna
Leo Tolstoy and Dushan Makovitsky among patients and doctors of the Trinity District Psychiatric Hospital (talking to a patient who calls himself Peter the Great), June 1910, Moscow province., p. Trinity. Tolstoy became interested in issues of psychiatry in particular after meeting in 1897 with the famous criminologist and psychiatrist Cesare Lombroso. Living in Otradnoye next door to the two best at that time, the Trinity District and Pokrovskaya Zemstvo Psychiatric Hospitals, he visited them several times. Tolstoy visited the Trinity Hospital twice: on June 17 and 19, 1910.
Photo Chertkov Vladimir Grigorievich
Leo Tolstoy in Yasnaya Polyana, August 28, 1903, Tula province .., village. Yasnaya Polyana
Photo Protasevich Franz Trofimovich
Leo Tolstoy, Alexandra Tolstaya, chairman of the Moscow Literacy Society Pavel Dolgorukov, Tatyana Sukhotina, Varvara Feokritova, Pavel Biryukov, on January 31, 1910, Tula province, Krapivensky district, village. Yasnaya Polyana. The black poodle Marquis belonged to Tolstoy's youngest daughter Alexandra Lvovna.
Photo Saveliev A.I.
Leo and Sophia Tolstoy and their daughter Alexandra among the peasants of the village of Yasnaya Polyana on Trinity Day, 1909, Tula province, Krapivensky district, village. Yasnaya Polyana. Left: Alexandra Lvovna Tolstaya.
Photo Tapsel Thomas
Leo Tolstoy walks from the house along the Preshpekt alley, 1903, Tula province, Krapivensky district, village. Yasnaya Polyana. From the diary of Mikhail Sergeevich Sukhotin, 1903: “Each time I am more and more surprised by the health and strength of L.N. He is getting younger, fresher, stronger. There is no mention of his former fatal illnesses ... He again acquired his youthful, quick, cheerful gait, very peculiar, with his socks turned outward.
Photo Tolstaya Alexandra Lvovna
Leo Tolstoy among the peasants of the village of Krekshino, Moscow province, 1909, Moscow province, village. Krekshino. The peasants of the village of Krekshino came with bread and salt to welcome the arrival of Leo Tolstoy. He came out to them in a shirt with suspenders outside, as the day was very hot and, according to eyewitnesses, he talked with them for a long time. The conversation turned to land, and Lev Nikolaevich expressed his view of landed property as a sin, all the evil from which he again resolved by moral perfection and refraining from violence.
Photo Tapsel Thomas
Leo Tolstoy in the office of the house in Yasnaya Polyana, 1909, Tula province, Krapivensky district, village. Yasnaya Polyana. Tolstoy is filmed in his office, in an armchair intended for visitors. Lev Nikolayevich sometimes liked to sit in this armchair in the evenings, reading a book by the light of a candle, which he placed next to him on a bookcase. The rotating bookcase was presented to him by Pyotr Alekseevich Sergeenko. On it were placed books that Tolstoy used in the near future and which therefore had to be “at hand”. A note was pinned on the bookcase: "Books from the right ones."
Photo Chertkov Vladimir Grigorievich
Leo Tolstoy on a walk, 1908, Tula province, Krapivensky district, village Yasnaya Polyana
Photo Chertkov Vladimir Grigorievich
Leo Tolstoy tells a fairy tale about a cucumber to his grandchildren Sonya and Ilyusha, 1909, Moscow province, village. Krekshino
Photo Chertkov Vladimir Grigorievich
Leo Tolstoy at the station in Krekshino, September 4 - 18, 1909, Moscow province., Der. Krekshino
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Departure of Leo Tolstoy to Kochety to his daughter Tatyana Sukhotina, 1909, Tula province, Tula district, Kozlova Zasek station. In the last two years of his life, Tolstoy often left Yasnaya Polyana - sometimes for a short stay with his daughter Tatyana Lvovna in Kochety, then to Chertkov in Krekshino or in Meshcherskoye, Moscow province.
Photo Chertkov Vladimir Grigorievich
Leo Tolstoy, 1907, Tula province, Krapivensky district, village. Yasnaya Polyana. “Not a single photograph, not even portraits painted from him, can convey the impression that was obtained from his living face and figure. When Tolstoy looked at a person, he became motionless, concentrated, inquisitively penetrated inside him and as if sucking out everything that was hidden in him - good or bad. At that moment his eyes hid behind overhanging brows, like the sun behind a cloud. At other times, Tolstoy responded to a joke like a child, burst into a sweet laugh, and his eyes became cheerful and playful, came out of thick eyebrows and shone, ”wrote Konstantin Sergeevich Stanislavsky.
Photo Chertkov Vladimir Grigorievich
