📍Yasnaya Polyana, Shchyokinsky District, Tula Oblast 301222, Russia
1828 – 1910“I was born here in 1828 and have never truly wished to be anywhere else. The estate — twelve miles south of Tula, birch forests, apple orchards — gave me everything War and Peace and Anna Karenina would later require. I walked these paths daily for sixty years. In my old age I freed my serfs, gave away my copyrights, and tried to live as a simple peasant. My wife Sonya thought me a hypocrite. Perhaps. But Yasnaya Polyana was the proof that simplicity was what I had always wanted.”
👍 LovedThe forest walks and the annual mowing season, when I worked alongside the peasants from dawn until dusk
👎 DislikedThe contradiction between my philosophy of renunciation and the comfortable circumstances from which I could never fully escape
🗺️ Approximate location today
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Sources: Wikipedia: Leo Tolstoy