1. Leaves Yasnaya Polyana forever

    · Tolstoy House, Yasnaya Polyana, Tula Oblast, Russia

    Leaves Yasnaya Polyana forever
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    Tolstoy secretly departed his home at night with his physician Dushan Makovitsky, intending to escape his increasingly intolerable domestic circumstances and live more simply. The source gives 28 October Old Style, equivalent to 10 November 1910 Gregorian.

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