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The Best Attractions In Yepifan

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Yepifan is an urban locality in Kimovsky District of Tula Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Don River about 16 kilometers southeast of Kimovsk and 78 kilometers southeast of Tula, in the proximity of the Kulikovo Field. Population: 2,237 ; 2,377 ; 2,457 .Yepifan was founded by Prince Ivan Mstislavsky as a fort against the Crimean Tatars . The people of Yepifan supported Ivan Bolotnikov during the Time of Troubles. The town was ravaged by Ivan Zarutsky and the Tatars on several occasions. The last Tatar raid on Yepifan was recorded in 1659. Peter the Great intended to connect the Volga and the Don Rivers through a system of waterways and s...
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  • 3. Yasnaya Polyana Yasnaya Polyana
    Yasnaya Polyana is a writer's house museum, the former home of the writer Leo Tolstoy. It is 12 kilometres southwest of Tula, Russia, and 200 kilometres from Moscow.Tolstoy was born in the house, where he wrote both War and Peace and Anna Karenina. He is buried nearby. Tolstoy called Yasnaya Polyana his inaccessible literary stronghold.In June 1921, the estate was nationalized and formally became his memorial museum. It was at first run by Alexandra Tolstaya, the writer's daughter. The current director of the museum is Tolstoy's great-great-grandson Vladimir Tolstoy. The museum contains Tolstoy's personal effects and movables, as well as his library of 22,000 volumes. The estate-museum contains the writer's mansion, the school he founded for peasant children, and a park where Tolstoy's una...
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  • 4. Kulikovo field Monastyrshchino
    Kulikovo Field is a field in Tula Oblast in Russia where the Battle of Kulikovo took place on September 8, 1380 and was won by Dmitri, who became known as Donskoy after the battle. As established by Stepan Nechayev, the battlefield is located between the rivers of Nepryadva, Krasivaya Mecha, and Don some 140 km away from Tula and 23 km away from the Kulikovo Pole railway station. Today, Kulikovo Field is home to a museum complex which includes a 28-metre high column on the Red Hill built between 1848 and 1850, and a memorial church in honour of Sergius of Radonezh that is now the Kulikovo Field Museum. There is a stone church in the nearby settlement of Monastyrshchino where, according to a legend, the fallen Russian soldiers were interred after the battle. No burials have been found so fa...
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  • 5. Yasnaya Polyana, Lev Tolstoy Estate Museum Yasnaya Polyana
    Yasnaya Polyana is a writer's house museum, the former home of the writer Leo Tolstoy. It is 12 kilometres southwest of Tula, Russia, and 200 kilometres from Moscow.Tolstoy was born in the house, where he wrote both War and Peace and Anna Karenina. He is buried nearby. Tolstoy called Yasnaya Polyana his inaccessible literary stronghold.In June 1921, the estate was nationalized and formally became his memorial museum. It was at first run by Alexandra Tolstaya, the writer's daughter. The current director of the museum is Tolstoy's great-great-grandson Vladimir Tolstoy. The museum contains Tolstoy's personal effects and movables, as well as his library of 22,000 volumes. The estate-museum contains the writer's mansion, the school he founded for peasant children, and a park where Tolstoy's una...
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  • 7. Bogoroditsk Palace Museum and Park Bogoroditsk
    Bogoroditsk is a town and the administrative center of Bogoroditsky District in Tula Oblast, Russia, located on the Upyorta River, a tributary of the Upa. Population: 31,897 ; 30,884 ; 33,552 .
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