A new, expanded Tolstoy Theater Festival will take place in Yasnaya Polyana on July 4-7.
Yasnaya Polyana is the ancestral estate of Leo Tolstoy, which is now a museum that has kept everything exactly as it was in 1910, the year of the writer’s death. Tolstoy’s house, in a beautiful setting not far from Tula, is still in pristine (первоначальный) condition, full of books and paintings by Ilya Repin, Valentin Serov, and Ivan Kramskoi.
This year’s festival is all about Anna Karenina. There will also be a food court, an extensive (широкий) program for children, as well as an educational program. For more information about the schedule, tickets, and travel, see the festival site https://tolstoyfestival.ru/
