Leo Tolstoy’s Moscow Home Was A Winter Retreat
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In 1882, Tolstoy was pressured by his wife to leave Yasnaya Polyana and find a house in Moscow. They spent their winters at the wooden home in the center of the capital until 1901. He spent his days rising early, chopping wood, and getting water from the well. The house was eventually turned into the Tolstoy House Museum.
The museum features two pairs of boots that the author made as well as some dumbbells and a bicycle. He also entertained many visitors at his home, including pianist, composer, and conductor Sergei Rachmaninov; painter Ilya Repin; artist N.N. Ge and writer Maxim Gorky.
