En Route to the House, Visible in the Distance is the Village of Yasnaya Polyana, Aleksey Ivanovich Saveliev, 1910


En Route to the House, Visible in the Distance is the Village of Yasnaya Polyana, 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


Size: 5760px × 3737px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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