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	Ballet "Kreutzer Sonata" in Moscow
	The Ballet Moscow Theater presents the modern ballet of the rising star of world choreography, Robert Binet, after The Kreutzer Sonata story written by Leo Tolstoy.
--21-10-2018--
	Opera "War and Peace" Opens Tolstoy Weekend in Yasnaya Polyana
	The Tolstoy Weekend Festival will take place in the open air in the Yasnaya Polyana museum-estate from 9 to 11 June.
--07-06-2017--
	Vegetarianism in Russia
	Leo Tolstoy, the well-known Russian writer and thinker, argued: “While our bodies remain graves of murdered animals, how can we foster hopes for creation of ideal life conditions on the Earth?”
--01-08-2012--
	Must-Read Russian Books: Bulgakov, Dostoyevsky, and Tolstoy Top the List
	Earlier this month we decided to explore, what books you would recommend to someone uninitiated in the Russian prose to read to start their acquaintance with the mysterious world of Russian literature. Our readers and visitors responded, and here is what they had to say...
--20-02-2012--
	Tula Region: Yasnaya Polyana - Where Nature Inspired Leo Tolstoy
	Leо Tolstoy's Yasnaya Polyana estate is a place where one could clearly see and feel, how the gems of Russian nature can etch into one's heart.
--15-08-2011--

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	Museum-Estate "Yasnaya Polyana" Opened Part of the Territory for Visitors
	The State Memorial and Nature Reserve "Museum-Estate of Leo Tolstoy "Yasnaya Polyana" (Tula Region) was reopened for visitors.
--17-06-2020--
	Exhibition “From Tolstoy to Tolstoy. Writer, Fashion and Style”
	How often did Leo Tolstoy walk barefoot (as in his famous portrait by Ilya Repin)? Were the Silver Age poets always dainty?
--09-12-2019--
	Exhibition "Repin: the Myth of Tolstoy" in Leo Tolstoy Museum
	It was the brilliant Russian artist Ilya Repin who captured that canonical image of Leo Tolstoy now rooted in the people’s memory.
--31-08-2019--
	Great Film Director Marlen Khutsiev Passed Away
	On March 19, 2019, director and screenwriter Marlen Khutsiev, aged 93, died at a Moscow hospital.
--19-03-2019--
	American Society of Cinematographers to Screen Bondarchuk’s “War and Peace”
	The film epic War and Peace directed by Sergei Bondarchuk after the famous novel by Leo Tolstoy will be demonstrated at the Lincoln Center this week.
--22-02-2019--
	Boyarskaya: It was Important for me to Show Power of Anna Karenina
	Actress Elizaveta Boyarskaya presented the sensational screen version of Anna Karenina at the Kinotavr Film Festival in Sochi.
--16-06-2017--
	New Screen Version of Anna Karenina Broadcasted on Russian TV
	The new teleseries based on the famous same-name novel by Leo Tolstoy was directed by Karen Shakhnazarov.
--18-04-2017--
	New Film "About Love" Draws Inspiration from Anna Karenina
	Film director Vladimir Bortko, famous for his masterpieces The Dog's Heart, Master and Margarita, Taras Bulba, and Spy Soul has completed his new film.
--23-01-2017--
	Leo Tolstoy through Camera Lens in Moscow
	The exhibition in the Multimedia Art Museum presents more than 130 photos of the great Russian writer.
--13-11-2016--
	War and Peace Became Best-Seller in Great Britain
	Leo Tolstoy's epic novel War and Peace has for the first time become the best-seller in Great Britain, The Guardian reports.
--18-02-2016--
	Karen Shakhnazarov with New Screen Version of Anna Karenina
	The work on the new screen version of the novel Anna Karenina is coming to an end.
--16-02-2016--
	Birthday of Leo Tolstoy Celebrated in Yasnaya Polyana
	The 10th Literary Meetings will take place in Yasnaya Polyana, the memorial estate of Leo Tolstoy from September 8 to September 10, 2015.
--08-09-2015--
	BBC to Make Another Screen Version of War and Peace in Russia
	The BBC will start shooting a new screen version of Leo Tolstoy’s novel War and Peace in Russia, Lithuania and Latvia in January, 2015.
--30-12-2014--
	700 People to Read Anna Karenina Online
	The world famous Internet company Google has announced the new international online project Karenina. Live Readings.
--08-08-2014--
	Destruction of Princes Volkonskys’ House Proceeds in Moscow
	The tenant builder has resumed construction works with the Princes Volkonskys’House in Moscow, the Archnadzor social movement reports.
--28-06-2013--
	Yasnaya Polyana Will Be Protected From Site Development
	«Yasnaya Polyana (Serene Glade)», the farmstead of Leo Tolstoy, has become a cultural object of the federal importance.
--23-04-2013--
	International Festival Centre to Appear in Yasnaya Polyana Estate
	The international festival centre will be created on the territory of Leo Tolstoy’s museum-estate Yasnaya Polyana in the Tula region.
--18-06-2012--
	Illustrations to “War and Peace” Exhibited in Lipetsk
	The exhibition of illustrations to the famous novel “War and Peace” by the great Russian author Leo Tolstoy takes place at the Regional Art Gallery in Lipetsk. It is devoted to the 200th anniversary of the victory in the Patriotic War of 1812.
--05-03-2012--