The Lowering of the Coffin into the Grave with Kneeling Mourners, Aleksey Ivanovich Saveliev, November 9, 1910

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The Lowering of the Coffin into the Grave with Kneeling Mourners, November 9, 1910, Gelatin silver print, Image: x cm (3 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.), Photographs, Aleksey Ivanovich Saveliev (Russian, 1883–1923), These six photo-postcards show various places and moments surrounding the death and burial of Leo Tolstoy. In November 1910 the eighty-two-year-old novelist walked away from his great wealth to devote himself to Christian charity and died in a stationmaster's house after falling ill on a train

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Size: 5760px × 3673px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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