3744 x 5616 px | 31,7 x 47,5 cm | 12,5 x 18,7 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
22 mai 2011
Lieu:
Yasnaya Polyana, Shchekino District, Tula Region, Russia, Eastern Europe
Informations supplémentaires:
Yasnaya Polyana (literally : "Clear Glade") was the home of the writer Leo Tolstoy, where he was born, wrote War and Peace and Anna Karenina, and is buried. Tolstoy called Yasnaya Polyana his "inaccessible literary stronghold". It is located 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) southwest of Tula, Russia and 200 kilometers (120 mi) from Moscow. From the entrance towers, the birch alley mentioned in “War and Peace” leads to the Tolstoy House. The alley has preserved its old-fashioned name “Preshpekt” (prospect). Tolstoy was very fond of this alley. He once wrote to his wife: “In the morning again the play of light and shadow from the big thickly dressed birches along the “preshpekt” over the already tall and dark green grass, and forget-me-nots and the dead nettles, and everything – most of all, the waving of the birches along the “preshpekt” – is just as it was sixty years ago, when I noticed this beauty for the first time and fell in love with it”.
