Yasnaya Polyana estate grave
Tula Oblast, Russia
Yasnaya Polyana Museum-Estate, Shchyokinsky District, Tula Oblast, Russia
GRAVE
VISITOR INFORMATION
The grave is a woodland walk from the main estate. It has no conventional headstone; remain on marked paths.
Estate grounds and house tours have different schedules; check the museum’s current visitor information before travel.
Consider May–September for more comfortable weather; confirm current access and visiting hours.
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HISTORIC SITES NEARBY
Nearby Historic Sites
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WHO WAS HERE
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PEOPLE WHO LIVED HERE
About Yasnaya Polyana estate grave
Leo Tolstoy is buried in a simple, unmarked grave in the Stary Zakaz woodland of his Yasnaya Polyana estate.
The Yasnaya Polyana museum preserves the estate landscape and Tolstoy’s forest burial site.
History happened here at Yasnaya Polyana estate grave
Tolstoy died in 1910 and was buried in the estate forest near the site of a childhood story about a green stick.
The estate is now a literary museum and historic landscape.
PEOPLE WHO DIED HERE
PEOPLE AT REST HERE
Leo Tolstoy
EXTERNAL LINKS
Yasnaya Polyana Museum, Tolstoy grave: https://www.ypmuseum.ru/object/mogila-ln-tolstogo?lang=en
Yasnaya Polyana Museum, estate visitor information: https://www.ypmuseum.ru/about?lang=en
Map coordinates: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Grave_of_Leo_Tolstoy