Writers’ Residences: Literature Lives Here
| June 9, 2017
8. Leo Tolstoy – Yasnaya Polyana, Russia
Tolstoy is considered one of the greatest writers of all time. He was born in Russia to a wealthy aristocratic family. He started writing after he fought in the Crimean War, and later became a pacifist and Christian anarchist. His works on nonviolent resistance influenced Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
He moved back to Yasnaya Polyana after the war and wrote War and Peace, and Anna Karenina while living there. He would write his novels by hand and his wife would turn them into clean copy. His estate had over 350 peasants, and during the harvest season, he used to work with them to write about their lives in a more realistic way.
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