Yasnaya Polyana Today

Today the State Memorial and Natural Preserve Museum - Estate of Leo Tolstoy "Yasnaya Polyana" employs some 600 people in over sixty departments ranging from forestry to publishing. The Museum-Estate includes a hotel, a cultural center and branch museums at sites pertaining to Leo Tolstoy's life and death and at other former Tolstoy family properties. Please visit the Yasnaya Polyana website for information about the Museum - Estate and programs and for the literary resources web portal to texts by and about L.N. Tolstoy. http://ypmuseum.ru/

Stable workers Slava (foreground) and Lev (driving cart) together with a summer temporary worker, prepare Russian draft horse Ftor for a hot July day's work.