Museum-estate of L.N. Tolstoy "Yasnaya Polyana"

Yasnaya Polyana is a unique Russian estate, the family estate of the great Russian writer Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy. Here he was born, lived most of his life, and is buried. It is in Yasnaya Polyana that you can truly plunge into the world of Tolstoy and his works - annually this famous museum is visited by more than 200,000 people.

The first information about Yasna Polyana belongs to 1652. Since the middle of the XVIII century, the estate belonged to the ancestors of the writer on the maternal line - the princes of Volkonsky. During the XVIII and XIX centuries, a unique manor landscape was created here: parks, gardens, picturesque alleys, ponds, a rich greenhouse, an architectural ensemble was created, which included a large manor house and two outbuildings. Together with the architectural ensemble, this landscape has been preserved for more than 100 years - on the model of 1910, the last year of Tolstoy's life.

The estate museum was founded on June 10, 1921. In 1993, it was classified as a particularly valuable cultural heritage site. The collection of the museum consists of 55,945 units, including 46,738 units of the main fund. Most of the exhibits are in open storage at the main exhibition in the House of Leo Tolstoy.