ABSTRACT
AT Yasnaya Polyana, a fine wooden house built in the classical style with a handsome columned portico, elegant balconies and more than forty rooms, Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy was born on August 28th, 1828. Byron had died four years before; Pushkin, Goethe and Stendhal still lived; while Ruskin and Dostoevsky were both younger than Turgenev, now ten years old.
