"outspokenly opposed to many of his teachings, and in recent years had grown envious of the attention which it seemed to her Tolstoy lavished upon his Tolstoyan ""disciples"". Tolstoy died of pneumonia at Astapovo train station, after a day's rail journey south. The station master took Tolstoy to his apartment, and his personal doctors were called to the scene. He was given injections of morphine and camphor. The police tried to limit access to his funeral procession, but thousands of peasants lined the streets. Still, some were heard to say that, other than knowing that ""some nobleman had died"", they"
"the Leo Tolstoy House into a hospital, and German soldiers who died in the hospital were buried around Tolstoy's grave. A fire during the occupation damaged the upper floor of the house. Following the war the estate was restored to the way it looked when Count Tolstoy lived there. Soviet propaganda made use of the Germans' disregard of the house's cultural value in the 1942 war documentary film ""Moscow Strikes Back"". The house today is kept as it appeared when he died in 1910, at 82 years of age. The Kuzminsky wing, like the house of Leo Tolstoy, was originally"
"Tolstoy House The Tolstoy House is a large and well-known apartment building in St. Petersburg, located at 15-17 Rubenstein Street and 54 Fontanka Embankment. The building was designed by Fyodor Lidval in the “Northern Modern” style. The building was constructed in 1910-1912 under the aegis of Major-General Count Mikhail Pavlovich Tolstoy, nephew of the 1812 war hero P. A. Tolstoy. After Tolstoy's death in 1913, ownership devolved to his widow Countess Olga Tolstoy (born a princess of the Vasilchikov family, daughter of Prince Alexander Illarionovich Vasilchikov, a second in the famous 1841 duel between Mikhail Lermontov and Nikolai Martynov). The"
"by architect A. N. Ageenko. The project of the building was awarded the I prize and the gold medal of the competition of the best buildings, held by The city Council in 1914. According to Shcherbatov's plan, the building was to house a Museum of private collections intended for the exhibition of private collections. The apartments Shcherbatov often gathered famous Moscow writers and artists, including A. N. Tolstoy and V. A. Serov. After the October revolution, the apartments in the former apartment house of Shcherbatov were transferred to the workers of the ""trekhgornaya manufactory"". On November 8, 1921, an outpatient"
"numerous applicants a mansion in 11 Prechistenka, Moscow which became the location for the Tolstoy museum. Bulgakov also put great efforts into creating a ""steel room"" for the Archives of Tolstoy. On 5 April 1920, Lenin signed a decree for the nationalization of the House of Leo Tolstoy in Moscow. The Literary Museum in Prechistenka and the Museum-Estate ""Khamovniki"" were combined into a single museum with Bulgakov as its director. Bulgakov retained this position until his expulsion by the Soviet regime in 1923. As a result of the Russian Civil War, alleged crop failure and the first implementation of war"
"criticising institutions of the state such as the justice system. Tolstoy died in 1910, at the age of 82. Just prior to his death, his health had been a concern of his family, who were actively engaged in his care on a daily basis. During his last few days, he had spoken and written about dying. Renouncing his aristocratic lifestyle, he had finally gathered the nerve to separate from his wife, and left home in the middle of winter, in the dead of night. His secretive departure was an apparent attempt to escape unannounced from Sophia's jealous tirades. She was"
"Yasnaya Polyana Yasnaya Polyana (, literally: ""Bright Glade"") is a writer's house museum, the former home of the writer Leo Tolstoy. It is southwest of Tula, Russia, and from Moscow. Tolstoy was born in the house, where he wrote both ""War and Peace"" and ""Anna Karenina"". He is buried nearby. Tolstoy called Yasnaya Polyana his ""inaccessible literary stronghold"". In June 1921, the estate was nationalized and formally became his memorial museum. It was at first run by Alexandra Tolstaya, the writer's daughter. The current director of the museum is Tolstoy's great-great-grandson Vladimir Tolstoy. The museum contains Tolstoy's personal effects and"
"Lenin's Mausoleum Lenin's Mausoleum (formerly Lenin's & Stalin's Mausoleum (1953–1961)) (), also known as Lenin's Tomb, situated in Red Square in the centre of Moscow, is a mausoleum that currently serves as the resting place of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin. His preserved body has been on public display there since shortly after his death in 1924, with rare exceptions in wartime. Alexey Shchusev's diminutive but monumental granite structure incorporates some elements from ancient mausoleums, such as the Step Pyramid, the Tomb of Cyrus the Great and, to some degree, Temple of the Inscriptions. Lenin died on January 21, 1924. Two"
"Monument to Leo Tolstoy on Prechistenka The Monument to Leo Tolstoy on Prechistenka () was installed in Moscow in the courtyard of the State Museum of Leo Tolstoy (11, Prechistenka Street). Granite sculpture was made in 1913 by sculptor S. D. Merkurov. At the present place has been since 1972. In November 1910 the sculptor S. D. Merkurov removed the death mask from the face of Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy. After that, he began to create a monument to the writer, who ordered from him a Moscow patron N. A. Shakhov. In 1913, a sculpture carved from Finnish granite was ready."
"flanked by two two-storey wings, linked by decking. He also built stables, a coach-house, a bathhouse, summerhouse, and two orangeries linked by a gallery, and created a formal French garden, an English landscape garden with a cascade of ponds, and long avenues of birch and oak trees. The house passed from Nikolai Volkonskiy to his only daughter, Maria Nikolayevna, the mother of Leo Tolstoy. Her husband, Nikolai Ilyich Tolstoy, a veteran of the war against Napoleon in 1812, added a second storey to the house, providing accommodation for an extended family of thirteen. Leo Tolstoy was born on September 9,"
"the arch of the General Staff Building, the Alexandrine Theatre and the buildings of the Board of Theaters and Ministry of Internal Affairs. In Pavlovsk, Rossi built the palace library. One of the last buildings of Rossi was the belfry of the Yurevskogo monastery near Velikiy Novgorod. On 18 April 1849, he died of Cholera in Saint Petersburg, according to available data - in complete oblivion and in poverty. His children were left with the responsibilities of his burial and debts, which they petitioned the Tsar for help with. The Tsar gave a small sum for the funeral and Rossi"
"Donskoye Cemetery The New Donskoy Cemetery (Новое Донское кладбище) is a 20th-century necropolis sprawling to the south from the Donskoy Monastery in the south-west of Central Moscow. It has been closed for new burials since the 1980s. The cemetery outside the monastery walls was established in 1910, when there was no more place for new burials inside the medieval monastery. The speaker of the first Russian parliament, Sergey Muromtsev, was among the first notables to be interred there. Maria Gartung, the daughter of Alexander Pushkin who served for Leo Tolstoy as a model for Anna Karenina, was buried in 1919."
"a major scandal arose. Viktor Nekrasov named the building ""The Castle of Richard the Lionheart"", after the 12th century English king in his book. It has been established that the modernized Gothic fronts were practically copied from a published design for a Saint Petersburg building by the architect R. Marfeld. But the stunning relief of Andriyivskyy Descent softened the effect of this plagiarism. The cellar of the building contained a barber's shop, a grocery store and a butcher shop. The remaining premises were used as apartments for rent. When Dimitri Orlov died in 1911 while building a railroad in the"
"Cambridge, on 18 September 1967. He is buried at the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge, in the same grave as his son Timothy. A memorial service was held at Westminster Abbey on 17 October 1967. Several buildings in the United Kingdom are named after him: the Cockcroft building at the New Museums Site of the University of Cambridge, comprising a lecture theatre and several hardware laboratories; the Cockcroft Institute at Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire; the Cockcroft building of the University of Brighton; and the Cockcroft building of the University of Salford. The oldest building at the Research"
"in his book, ""My Past and Thoughts"" (Былое и думы): Tolstoy died on November 5, 1846, after a short illness, in his Moscow home in the presence of his wife and only surviving daughter Praskovya. According to the recollections of his close friends, before his death he summoned a priest and confessed to him for several hours. Tolstoy was buried in the Vagankavo Cemetery. His widow Avdotya outlived him by fifteen years and died a violent death: she was stabbed by her own cook in 1861. The Tolstoy's house on Sivtsev Vrazhek near the old Arbat was not preserved: it"
"His body was returned to Paris, where it was interned in the burial plot of his wife's family. In 1925, Loo bought and substantially remodeled a townhouse in the 8th Arrondissement, which came to be known as ""Pagoda Paris."" The building became Loo's gallery and home for decades. The red brick building had jade-green roof tiles and Chinese gargoyles, 16th- and 17th-century lacquered wood paneling, an art deco glass ceiling depicting Chinese characters, an 18th- and 19th-century sculpted wood galleria of Indian origin, and a lacquer and wood elevator. The building fell into disrepair after Loo's death, but was purchased"
"Pravda 10, St. Petersburg Pravda 10 is a landmark building of the notable area of Saint-Petersburg often referred to as Dostoevsky's St. Petersburg by locals. Over time it has served as a residence of merchants, a tenement house; and later on, in the Soviet Union period, the building was used as Railway Club and afterwards as the Union of Food Workers’ “Palace of Culture”. After many years of abandonment due to the fire which destroyed most part of the building, it went through major restoration of what was left of the construction, and renovation to open as the one and"
"over Tolstoy's desire to give away all his private property — Leo left Sophia abruptly in 1910, aged 82, with their daughter Alexandra, and his doctor, Dushan Makovicki (Dušan Makovický). Tolstoy died 10 days later in a railway station, whilst Sophia was kept away from him (as depicted in the film, ""The Last Station""). Following the death of her husband, Sophia continued to live in Yasnaya Polyana and survived the Russian Revolution in relative peace. She died in 1919. With recent increased interest in Sophia Tolstaya some new biographical works, based on her memoirs and diaries, have been published: She"
"of the buildings facing Italianskaya Ulitsa and Mikhailovskaya Ulitsa. His work was completed by other architects with the Mikhailovsky Theatre, the Jaquot House, the Saint Petersburg Philharmonia, and the Mikhailovsky Square Garden at its center. From 1834 to 1918, the square was known as the ""Mikhailovskaya Square"" (), and as the ""Lassalle Square"" ( from 1923 to 1952. In 1902, when the Mikhailovsky Palace was turned into the Russian Museum, the eastern wing became the Russian Museum of Ethnography, a new address on Arts Square. In August 1939, Isaak Brodsky died in his appartment on Arts Square, which then became"
"Vuyich's House Vuyich's House is a building of cultural and historical significance in Pushkin, Saint Petersburg, Russia, which was built in the 1880s. The site was originally the garden of a house belonging to Ludwig-Wilhelm Tepper de Ferguson. The lot was later sold to Countess EI Igelstrom. The existing wooden house was constructed in the 1880s as designed by architect A. F. Vidov for state counsellor Vasily Ivanovich Vuyich. After the 1917 October Revolution, the house was converted into an apartment lot. From 1930 to 1938, writer Aleksey Tolstoy lived in the house. During this time, he worked on the"
"such as pacifism, vegetarianism, non-participation in political activities and a high level of social activity based on Christian principles. In 1910 he dropped out of University and became the personal secretary of Leo Tolstoy. He was a personal witness to the lives of the Tolstoy family at Yasnaya Polyana during the last period of the writer's life. On 28 October 1910, he managed to prevent a suicide attempt of Tolstoy's wife Sophia Tolstaya following the departure of Tolstoy. During this period he became gradually estranged from Vladimir Chertkov, one of the most prominent Tolstoyans. After the death of Leo Tolstoy,"
"Constructivist work is probably the Kirov District Administration building of 1938. Trotsky's best-known project is the House of Soviets in Saint Petersburg. At the year of its completion, the building was the largest office building in Saint Petersburg (then Leningrad). In March 1936, the Leningrad Soviet decided to relocate all the city's administration to a new site at the southern end of International Avenue. In open tender, Trotsky's project was selected over ten others. It was completed after Trotsky death, with co-authors Modest Shepilevsky and Yakov Lukin, and it features an impressive 11-meter-high frieze by Soviet sculptor Nikolai Tomsky. Trotsky"
"tower with a spire looking at the street crossing. The walls are white, except for two large paintings made of maiolica. There are many details, including arches and windows, which are clearly inspired by real or imaginary architecture of the Zaporizhian Sich. In 1918, after the October Revolution Khrennikov left the city, abandoning all of his properties. He remained in Russia and died in Kislovodsk in 1936. After 1920, the building housed the Central District Committee of the Communist Party, a central statistical office, a club, and an art museum, as well as a number of state and commercial organizations."
"letter to poet Karolina Pavlova (who was also a translator of his dramas) on 8 July 1875. Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy died on September 28, 1875, in Krasny Rog, Chernigov Governorate, after having given himself a lethal injection of morphine. He was buried in the family vault in the Uspenskaya Church in Krasny Rog. Tolstoy represented the later period of Romanticism in Russian literature; art for him was a mystic link between the human world and the higher spheres where ""eternal ideas dwell."" Along with Afanasy Fet, his artistic and spiritual ally, he saw Art as a higher science, man's only"
"elements, and different colors and textures, is often cited as a model of its style. Lidvall himself lived in this house until his exile in 1918. He designed the Azov-Don Commercial Bank Building in St. Petersburg (1907–1813), already showing his characteristic restraint and use of classical elements (the center of the building includes a portico with columns). Lidvall also built structures for the Azov-Don Commercial Bank in Moscow, Astrakhan, Kiev, and Kharkov. The second decade of the Twentieth Century began Lidval's creative heyday. During these years he designed a house for Alfred Nobel, the Tolstoy House on Trinity Street (now"
"Dostoevsky Museum The F. M. Dostoyevsky Literary Memorial Museum (Государственный Литературно-мемориальный музей Ф. М. Достоевского), located on Kuznechny Lane 5/2 in Saint Petersburg, was opened on November 12, 1971 in the former apartment of the famous writer. Fyodor Dostoyevsky lived in the apartment twice during his life: first for a short period in 1846 in the beginnings of his career, and later from October 1878 until his death in January 1881. The apartment was his home during the composition of some of his most notable works, including """" and ""The Brothers Karamazov"". The apartment has been reconstructed based on the"
"Ploshcha Lva Tolstoho (Kiev Metro) Ploshcha Lva Tolstoho () is a station on Kiev Metro's Obolonsko–Teremkivska Line. The station was opened on December 19, 1981, and is named after the writer Leo Tolstoy (who visited Kiev only once). It was designed by N.A. Levchuk and V.B. Zhezheryn. The station is located deep underground and consists of a central hall with arcades in the walls. The central hall has been covered with orange-coloured marble and is lit by chandeliers and decorative lamps placed on the walls. Passenger tunnels connect the station to the Leo Tolstoy Square and another street. The station"
"novel ""Peter the First"", the trilogy ""Walking Through the Agony"" and his other works. The second floor hosted his office. He was often visited by writers and artists, and their circle was known as the ""children's art colony."" After Tolstoy's departure in 1938, the building served as the House of Creativity for Leningrad writers. The building was turned into the editorial office of the newspaper ""For the Soviet Motherland"" of the 1st Kirov Division of the Leningrad People's Militia soon after the outbreak of World War II. The house was seriously damaged in the war. The roof was destroyed, the"
"is located in the basement of this building. Among the inmates were: revolutionary, who took part in the assassination of Emperor Alexander II Nikolai Kibalchich, future poet, and a Hero of Socialist Labor (1970) Mikhail Isakovsky. Public flogging of workers who were sympathizers of the Bolsheviks in Novocherkassk military prison is described in Aleksey Tolstoy's novel ""The Ordeal"". The Military prison building was designed in the Classical Greek - Italian style. The portico is Ionic. In front of the vestibule is the portico of two Ionic columns and two pilasters with vertical fluting. Windows are decorated with segmental cornices and"
"walls of the house. However, in 1940, a Spanish Stalin supporter by the name of Ramón Mercader managed to gain entry to the house and to kill Trotsky with a mountaineer's ice axe. The room in which Trotsky was killed remains exactly as it was at that moment, including the papers and the books in their exact positions. As a museum, some other buildings were added along the walls which contain photos from Trotsky's lifetime, biographical notes in Spanish and memorabilia such as Trotsky trademark small round glasses. In the garden, there is a tomb which contains Trotsky's and his"
"and March 2010, the museum received 11,000 visitors, mostly students and foreigners, despite the lack of a coordinated promotional effort. Leon Trotsky Museum, Mexico City The Leon Trotsky House Museum () is a museum honoring Leon Trotsky and an organization that works to promote political asylum, located in the Coyoacán borough of Mexico City. The center of the complex is the house where Trotsky and his second wife, Natalia Sedova, lived from April 1939 to August 1940, and where Trotsky was murdered. Trotsky's teenage grandson, Vsevolod Volkov (aka Seva Volkov, Esteban Volkov), also lived with Trotsky and Sedova at the"
"forms a station complex with a transfer tunnel with the adjoining Palats Sportu station on the Syretsko-Pecherska Line. Ploshcha Lva Tolstoho (Kiev Metro) Ploshcha Lva Tolstoho () is a station on Kiev Metro's Obolonsko–Teremkivska Line. The station was opened on December 19, 1981, and is named after the writer Leo Tolstoy (who visited Kiev only once). It was designed by N.A. Levchuk and V.B. Zhezheryn. The station is located deep underground and consists of a central hall with arcades in the walls. The central hall has been covered with orange-coloured marble and is lit by chandeliers and decorative lamps placed"
"Hotel building in 1826–28 as a private residence. The architect died in 1867 and he was buried in Odessa. Francesco Boffo Francesco Carlo Boffo (Cyrillic: Франц Карлович Боффо; Orosei, 8 September 1796 – Cherson, 10 November 1867) was a Swiss-Italian-born Neoclassical architect who designed more than 30 buildings in Odessa between 1818 and 1861, including the famous Potemkin Stairs. Boffo was probably born in 1796 in Sardinia (maybe in Orosei, but in 1790) and he was apprenticed to an architect in Ticino. He then joined the University of Turin before entering the service of the Potocki noble family in Poland."