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The Best Attractions In Shchekinsky District

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Yasnaya Polyana, Lev Tolstoy Estate Museum

Yasnaya Polyana

Shchyokinsky District is an administrative district , one of the twenty-three in Tula Oblast, Russia. Within the framework of municipal divisions, it is incorporated as Shchyokinsky Municipal District. It is located in the center of the oblast. The area of the district is 1,393.4 square kilometers . Its administrative center is the town of Shchyokino. Population: 106,595 ; 43,064 ; 48,434 . The population of the administrative center accounts for 54.5% of the district's total population.
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The Best Attractions In Shchekinsky District

1. 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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2. 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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3. Shhyokinskiy Local Lore Museum Shchekino
4. Temple of the Prelate Nicholas the Wonder-Worker Yasnaya Polyana
5. Temple of the Icon of Our Lady of All the Afflicted Shchekino

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