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	Yasnaya Polyana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yasnaya Polyana (-Russian: Ясная Поляна, German: Trakhenen, Lithuanian: Trakėnai, Polish: Trakenach) is a town in the Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia.
		The town of Yasnaya Polyana was once known as Trakhenen in the German province of East Prussia.
		Yasnaya Polyana in Tula region, Russia, is also the name of the home of Russian writer Leo Tolstoy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yasnaya_Polyana (241 words)

	Yasnaya Polyana - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		de:Trakehnen The city of Yasnaya Polyana in the Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, (formerly Trakehnen in Prussia) was home to the world famous warmblood Trakehner horse breed stables.
		Under the Soviet Union the town of Trakehnen was named Yasnaya Polyana or Yasnaja Poliana ("clear glade").
		Yasnaya Polyana is also the name of the home of Russian writer Leo Tolstoy.
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /Yasnaya_Polyana (187 words)

	Yasnaya Polyana : Trakehnen
		The city of Yasnaya Polyana in the Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, (formerly Trakehnen in Prussia) was home to the world famous warmblood Trakehner horse breed stables.
		Under the Soviet Union the town of Trakehnen was named: Yasnaya Polyana or Yasnaja Poliana.
		Yasnaya Polyana is currently still the name as part of a Russian exclave named Kaliningrad Oblast.
	www.fastload.org /tr/Trakehnen.html (288 words)

	Yasnaya Polyana Agreement is Signed // ОАО ЩЕКИНОАЗОТ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		B.Sokol, the president of JSC "Shchekinoazot", stated in his report that the core of the "Yasnaya Polyana Agreement" is the Individual who was and remains the prime value of any state.
		The director of the memorial estate Yasnaya Polyana V.Tolstoy stressed that the moral authority of the museum which is recognized in the whole world will contribute to the fact that the international financial organizations will pay attention to the projects of economy and social sphere development.
		According to the Plenipotentiary of the President in the Central Federal District the "Yasnaya Polyana Agreement" is the first step of the program devoted to the social-economic development of the Russia Center on the basis of the humanitarian resources.
	english.n-azot.ru /news/yasnaya_polyana_agreement_is_signed (402 words)

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		Yasnaya Polyana, the family estate of the Princes Volkonsky, is situated in the Krapivensk district of the province of Tula, almost on the border line of the district of Tula, fifteen versts to the south of the town of the same name.
		The present two houses of Yasnaya Polyana consist of the two wings, formerly standing at the sides of the main body of the old house which was sole.
		Feodor Ivanovich died in Yasnaya Polyana, and was buried in the parish churchyard.
	www.ccel.org /t/tolstoy/tolstoy-bio/Biryukov/BIRYUKOV.002 (6805 words)

	Yasnaya Polyana - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Yasnaya Polyana
		His house is now a museum, and his grave is situated in a nearby wood.
		Tolstoy founded a village school at Yasnaya Polyana to put into practice his liberal ideas on education.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Yasnaya%20Polyana (140 words)

	Masterpiece Theatre \| Anna Karenina \| A Tolstoy Timeline (text version)
		Princess Marya Nikolayevna Volkonsky, 31, a spinster with no plans to marry, inherits her father's vast estates at Yasnaya Polyana, 130 miles from Moscow.
		Leo Nicolayevich Tolstoy is born on August 28 at Yasnaya Polyana.
		On summer vacation at Yasnaya Polyana, Leo begins writing a philosophical and poetic Miscellany, a critique of Russian society, and a treatise on property management.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/anna/timeline_text.html (4161 words)

	Yasnaya Polyana -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Yasnaya Polyana (“Sunlit Meadows”) was acquired in 1763 by C.F. Volkonsky, Leo Tolstoy's great grandfather.
		Leo Tolstoy was born at Yasnaya Polyana in 1828 and after his marriage in 1862 returned and lived there for another 48 years.
		Leo Tolstoy was born at Yasnaya Polyana in 1828 and after his marriage in 1862 returned and lived there for...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9077857 (528 words)

	Pravda.RU Yasnaya Polyana Tolstoy Museum Celebrates 80th Anniversary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Yasnaya Polyana museum sanctuary comprises Tolstoy's house, a literary museum, Prince Bolkonsky's house, Tolstoy's grave, and some 400 hectares of the sanctuary - an antique lime tree park, ponds, forests, meadows, plowed fields, gardens, dozens of memorial objects, and the richest collections of priceless relics related to the writer.
		Yasnaya Polyana had become a venue of Russian and world culture before Tolstoy's decease, with the cream of Russian and world literary community, scholars, and thinkers congregating there.
		Tolstoy's youngest daughter Alexandra was appointed keeper of the Yasnaya Polyana house.
	english.pravda.ru /main/2001/06/10/7441.html (2514 words)

	departures.com \| The Russia House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The new director of the Yasnaya Polyana estate museum, it announced, was to be the 32-year-old journalist and translator Vladimir Tolstoy.
		Yasnaya Polyana, in other words, has become again what it was in Leo Tolstoy's lifetime: a beacon in the darkness.
		To be met at Yasnaya Polyana station by horse, sleigh, or carriage—or to stay in the hotel—call the estate museum's tourism department, in Tula, at 7-0872-39-35-99.
	www.departures.com /tr/tr_0902_tolstoy.html (2172 words)

	News - The State Memorial and Natural Preserve “Museum-Estate of Leo Tolstoy “Yasnaya Polyana”
		Yasnaya Polyana is a phenomenon of Russia’s historic and cultural life.
		With its authentic buildings, surrounded by picturesque forests, orchards, and parks, it is a typical Russian estate, which will give you an insight into the every-day life and traditions of the 19 th and 20 th centuries.
		The Yasnaya Polyana museum extends an opportunity for you to experience a new concept in Russian language courses.
	www.yasnayapolyana.ru /english/index.htm (245 words)

	MSN Encarta - Leo Tolstoy
		Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy was born into a family of aristocratic landowners at Yasnaya Polyana, the family estate south of Moscow.
		Tolstoy was never comfortable in the literary world, however, and in 1859 he returned to Yasnaya Polyana to manage the estate, set up a school for peasant children, and write about his progressive theories of education.
		Married life at Yasnaya Polyana, a growing, happy family, and absorption in creating his finest literary work brought him stability for the next 15 years.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761579029/Tolstoy_Leo_Nikolayevich.html (1331 words)

	For the one to breathe easier in Yasnaya Polyana // ОАО ЩЕКИНОАЗОТ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In January Vladimir Tostoy, the director of the museum-estate “Yasnaya Polyana” met with Alexander Rubasov, the representative of the Russian Government, concerning ecological problems in Yasnaya Polyana.
		In this case the location of the museum-estate Yasnaya Polyana near the enterprise is an additional argument for the acquisition necessary funds.
		It is necessary to use the advantage of Yasnaya Polyana location near Azot so as to quiken the complete solution of the problems which have accumulated for decades.
	english.n-azot.ru /publications/yasnaya_polyana (876 words)

	Skoletorget/Yasnaya Polyana
		Yasnaya Polyana was the name of Tolstoy's ancestral estate near Tula.
		What most distinguished the school at Yasnaya Polyana was its attitude to the knowledge, abilities and skills that the children picked up outside school.
		The duties of a teacher at Yasnaya Polyana were much more complex than at a school with a strict timetable, coercive discipline, a range of set methods of encouragement and punishment, and a strictly limited volume of knowledge to be studied.
	www.skoletorget.no /abb/eng/plumstone/plum_yasn.html (732 words)

	Tolstoy's Life and Works
		He returned to Yasnaya Polyana to devote himself to the management of his estate and to the education of the children of his serfs.
		He established a school at Yasnaya Polyana, and, in 1860 and 1861, he traveled extensively in order to acquaint himself with European, especially German, educational theory and practice.
		He was described in the newspapers as "the sage of Yasnaya Polyana" and "the conscience of humanity." His vast correspondence touched hundreds of people at a distance and many more came to visit him each year.
	www1.umn.edu /lol-russ/PopLit/overview_of_the_life_and_works_of_leo_tolstoy.htm (5441 words)

	Yasnaya Poliana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Yasnaya Poliana is place where Lev Tolstoy was born in 1828, lived for about 60 years.
		The place is located in the Tula region, and for many years people came to the writer to talk, to ask for an advice, and sometimes to ask for some money.
		At the stormy night on the fall of 1910 he left the house to look for a simple form of being and...
	sunsite.unc.edu /sergei/Exs/YasnayaPoliana/yp1.html (111 words)

	Pravda.RU:Leo Tolstoi's descendants to gather in Yasnaya Polyana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		According to Yasnaya Polyana's present owner Vladimir Tolstoi, foreign descendants of the great writer began arriving in Russia on Wednesday.
		Yasnaya Polyana museum and Tolstoi's descendants will be its founders.
		In addition, there is a proposal to establish a board of trustees of the Yasnaya Polyana museum, involving outstanding Russian and foreign cultural figures, and to draft founding documents of the Club of Yasnaya Polyana's Friends.
	newsfromrussia.com /culture/2002/07/31/33564_.html (289 words)

	Special American Business Internship Training Program
		A-Force recently trained an employee from the historic museum-house of Leo Tolstoy known as Yasnaya Polyana, which is located in the Tula Region outside of Moscow.
		During her training, she helped to organize an event at which Vladimir Tolstoy, Director of Yasnaya Polyana, spoke to members of the Association of Southern Architecture.
		Yasnaya Polyana is one of the most popular rural tourist destinations in Russia.
	www.mac.doc.gov /sabit/grant_program/grantee_profile.html (529 words)

	Yasnaya Polyana - How to get to Yasnaya Polyana
		On Saturdays and Sundays, a specially decorated train, Yasnaya Polyana, departs from Kursky vokzal in Moscow (at 9 a.m.) and arrives at the Kozlova Zaseka station (4 km from the Tolstoy museum).
		Here museum busses are waiting for you, which will bring you to Yasnaya Polyana, and after a tour and a walk around the estate they will carry you back to the station.
		However, if you would like to spend more than one day at Yasnaya Polyana, you are welcome to stay at the comfortable museum hotel, in close vicinity to the Tolstoy estate.
	www.yasnayapolyana.ru /english/tourism/route (298 words)

	The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Yasnaya Polyana@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The trip to the Yasnaya Polyana estate museum also used to be...
		Leo Tolstoy was born at Yasnaya Polyana, which means Clear Glade.
		The Sage from Yasnaya Polyana and the Sage...
	www.highbeam.com /ref/doc0.asp?docid=1E1:YasnayaP (266 words)

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		He reopened it on his return to Yasnaya Polyana after his resignation and his first journey abroad, as was mentioned in the proper place.
		The magazine "Yasnaya Polyana", which was in fact itself an interesting educational experiment, lasted for one year.
		As to the school in Yasnaya Polyana, he speaks with enthusiasm of its practice but holds that it is inconsistent with the theories of its founder and guide, L.N. Tolstoy.
	www.ccel.org /t/tolstoy/tolstoy-bio/Biryukov/BIRYUKOV.012 (3801 words)

	The Christian Science Monitor \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		YASNAYA POLYANA, RUSSIA - This verdant estate where Leo Tolstoy wrote his classic Russian novels and pursued his social ideals is still a picture of tranquility.
		Count Tolstoy is trying to restore Yasnaya Polyana to the idyllic past, tearing up asphalt roads and fixing up the museum dedicated to his aristocratic ancestor.
		The dispute dates back four years when Tolstoy moved to Yasnaya Polyana after being invited by the Culture Ministry to run the museum on the property where his famous ancestor was born and lived most of his life.
	www.csmonitor.com /cgi-bin/durableRedirect.pl?/durable/1998/07/08/f-p6s2.htm (717 words)

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		At Yasnaya Polyana meals were taken in the zala, but this is not the general Russian custom, houses being provided also with a stolovaya, or dining- room.
		I can remember his planting the huge apple orchard at Yasnaya and several hundred acres of birch and pine forest, and at the beginning of the seventies, for a number of years, he was interested in buying up land cheap in the province of Samara, and breeding droves of steppe horses and flocks of sheep.
		When I arrived at Yasnaya the day after her death, I was aware of an atmosphere of exaltation and prayerful emotion about the whole family, and it was then I think for the first time that I realized the full grandeur and beauty of death.
	www.bralyn.net /etext/literature/ilya.tolstoy/rtlst10.txt (20482 words)

	Lev Tolstoy (1828-1910) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lev Tolstoy was born in Yasnaya Polyana in 1828, orphaned at the age of nine, and brought up by an elderly aunt.
		While running his estate of Yasnaya Polyana he was constantly concerned with the meaning of life.
		Yasnaya Polyana became a Mecca for others sharing the same views.
	www.msu.edu /~mincarel/tolstoy.html (295 words)

	Yasnaya Polyana (Clear Glade) - Russia Travel Group
		The Great Russian writer, Count Lev (Leo) Nikolayevich Tolstoy, was born in Yasnaya Polyana (Clear Glade) on August 28, 1828, and lived and worked here for over 60 years; he inherited the property in 1847.
		The 445 – hectare (1,100 – acre) Yasnaya Polyana was the main source of creative inspiration for Tolstoy, and the location is reflected in many of his works.
		Yasnaya Polyana is open 10 am– 5 pm (House Museum 11 am – 3 pm); closed Mondays and Tuesdays.
	www.r-tg.com /moscow_region/334/334.html (468 words)

	tolstoy-dialquattlebaum
		At the age of nine Leo's family moved frome their estate, Yasnaya Polyana, to the city of Moscow.Upon arriving their Leo was stricken with the place for it was not a lush forest haven like Yasnaya Polyana, but a dirty bustling metropolis.
		He had become dissatisfied with formal study and in 1847 left without a degree and returned to Yasnaya Polyana for solitude and also tried freeing the serfs that worked the land their, but failing he moved again to Moscow in which he developed a strict gambling habit.
		Attracted by Tolstoy's writings, Yasnaya Polyana was visited by hundreds of people from all over the globe.
	enloehs.wcpss.net /projects/west42002/tolstoy8/bio.html (648 words)

	Yasnaya Polyana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The city of Yasnaya Polyana in the KaliningradOblast, Russia, (formerly Trakehnen in Prussia) was home to the world famous warmblood Trakehner horse breed stables.
		This land had been taboo, off limits to all people outside the Soviet Union for 50 years and information was almostnon-existent.
		Yasnaya Polyana iscurrently still the name as part of a Russian exclave named Kaliningrad Oblast.
	www.therfcc.org /yasnaya-polyana-183154.html (256 words)

	Tolstoy on wheels: making tracks for the Russian sage's estate
		Count Leo Tolstoy was a reluctant rail-traveller himself, but his life and work are emblazoned over the walls of the six-coach Yasnaya Polyana express that every weekend whisks scores of his fans to see the house where he was born and spent most of his life.
		With their tasselled curtains and burnished panels, the themed coaches are a travelling exhibition that transport you in time while you race through the Russian countryside.
		The rapid there-and-back rides leave the visitor to Yasnaya Polyana with a large slice of the afternoon to visit Tolstoy's home, most of it recreated as it was at the time of the count's death in 1910.
	quickstart.clari.net /qs_se/webnews/wed/bf/Qlifestyle-russia.R2II_Dl8.html (611 words)

	Yasnaya Polyana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Yasnaya Polyana is one of the dearest places of the Russian Land.
		A museum (of such a large territory, such documental accuracy of expositions, and with such amount and cultural value of the remained relies can be hardly found else where in the world.
		L.N. Tolstoy was born in Yasnaya Polyana, he lived and was buried there.
	dbserv.ihep.su /IHEP/eng/yasnaya.htm (140 words)

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