Yasnaya Polyana to build a complex of buildings worth more than one billion rubles – newstula.ru

At home of Leo Tolstoy serves not only intellectual leisure, and leisure

By 2018, for the Museum-Estate “Yasnaya Polyana” build a complex of four buildings, including the festival center with relaxation area, sauna and swimming pool, the fund storage, restoration workshops, as well as a reception center and for visitors. Building construction will cost 1.1 billion rubles.

Director of “Yasnaya Polyana” Ekaterina Tolstaya told “Izvestia” that these buildings are not located directly on the territory of the Museum-Estate “Yasnaya Polyana”: Storage Facility, restoration workshops and the Festival Centre will be located one kilometer from the nature reserve and visitor center will be built 200 meters from the entrance to the museum – in what is now the parking lot.

– Festival Centre will offer guests not only in the form of intellectual leisure trips. Here you can truly relax – listen to birds singing, a walk to the river, and a sauna with a swimming pool will be another opportunity to feel comfortable – said Tolstoy. – We know that many people are now leading an active life – running, go to the clubs, and coming in the “Yasnaya Polyana”, they can not take breaks in their sports.

The Director also noted that the relaxation area “is perfect for a change of activity” members of major cultural and scientific events, which will take place in the festival center.

At the center of reception of visitors are planning to do is not only a comfortable waiting area, a café and a large gift shop but also room for the screening of films related to the personality of Leo Tolstoy.

– We believe that this center is located in the immediate vicinity of the entrance to the museum, will help our visitors to feel our hospitality and enjoy the atmosphere of “Yasnaya Polyana “before they step over its threshold. The flow of tourists, we are always high – for 2014 we took 209.9 thousand. Visitors in the first half of 2015 – more than 91 thousand. – And the old infrastructure to service them enough for more than 10 years – said Tolstoy.

great-grandson of Leo Tolstoy, Presidential Adviser on Culture Vladimir Tolstoy said, “Izvestia” that the construction of new buildings – a “dream” Yasnaya Polyana ».

– This is an old project I dealt with this issue for many years . Most importantly, over the next 2-3 years it will solve the problem fondohraneniya. You can finally be free under the new memorial exhibition of historical building – House Volkonskiis, Kuzminskaya Wing – cast today for storing funds. It is important and the appearance of the festival center, because “Yasnaya Polyana” is almost constant throughout the year festivals, conferences, film screenings, theater performances featuring the stars of the first magnitude. A good multi-purpose hall will make these activities accessible to more people – said Tolstoy.

A new exhibition in the wing Kuzminskaya will include personal belongings of the third son of Leo Tolstoy – Leo L.. In 1896 he married the daughter of a Swedish doctor Dora Westerlund and settled in a wing Kuzminskaya. The museum is preserved, in particular, seating set, belonged to Leo Tolstoy and Dora. After restoration it will be in one of the exhibition halls.

«Yasnaya Polyana” – XVII century manor house in Shchyokinsky District, Tula Region. At first it belonged to an ancient noble family Kartsev then – Volkonsky and Tolstoy. In 1828, Leo Tolstoy was born here. He lived in the “Yasnaya Polyana” most of his life, he created his most famous works – “War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina.” Grave of Leo Tolstoy is also in the “Yasnaya Polyana” – in the woods not far from the house.

After the death of Tolstoy’s mistress “Yasnaya Polyana” until 1919 remained Sophia Tolstaya. In 1921, the efforts of daughter Alexandra Lvovna Tolstoy estate was nationalized, it created a house-museum of Leo Tolstoy. The exposition includes personal belongings of Tolstoy and his library of 22 thousand. Books. The situation in the museum left the same as it had left the writer himself, forever leaving the “Yasnaya Polyana” in 1910. The museum-reserve is part of the tourist route “Russian Manor” and is one of the most visited of its points.

 

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