Ministry of sport of Republic of Tatarstan

Festivities to be held in Kazan to mark Lev Tolstoi’s 185th birthday

5 September 2013, Thursday

On 9 September, the global community marks the 185th anniversary of the great Russian writer and thinker Lev Tolstoi. The National Museum of Tatarstan and Lev Tolstoi Museum in Kazan invite all the classic’s work’s enthusiasts at 12 pm on 9 September to come to the Tolstoi Garden, to lay flowers to his monument.

The reconstructed museum of Lev Tolstoi will within an event called Tolstoi And Kazan be presented. Museum staff will tell about the stages of building the museum and the history of the house that had in 1841 hospitably received the young Lev Tolstoi. Romantic songs, performed by Yulia Ziganshina, will sound at the museum, and a bus-walking tour of the places in Kazan where Tolstoi had lived will be offered.

The Lev Tolstoi museum on the Yapeeva Street, where the classic had lived in 1841 to 1845, is being prepared for opening. The museum is by the year’s end expected to receive its first visitors.

Lev Tolstoi’s name is inseparable from Kazan. His great grandfather had been the Sviyazhsk military governor, and the grandfather, Count Ilya Tolstoi, had in 1815 been appointed as the Kazan governor.

Lev Tolstoi had come to the city in 1841 and in 1844 had been admitted to the Kazan Emperor’s University’s department of Oriental languages. A year later, he had transferred to the department of law and in 1847 left Kazan without completing his studies. The short period spent in Kazan had been an important stage for him, since it had been here that he had first manifested the genius that had later conquered the world.

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