Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina Anna Arkadyevna married Alexei Alexandrovich Karenin, a man twenty years her senior. She dutifully produced a son for him and settled into a life of social events and extravagant clothes and enjoyed a freedom from financial worries. Maybe this life would have continued for her if she had never met Count Alexei Kirillovich Vronsky, but more than likely, her midlife crisis, her awareness of the passage of time, would have compelled her to seek something more. Her husband was enamored with her, but then so was everyone who met her, male or female. Maybe he was too contented with their life together and, therefore, took their relationship for granted...

I.V. Yegorov, Former coachman of the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, demonstrates things left after the expulsion of German troops from the estate-museum “Yasnaya Polyana“. The Yasnaya Polyana museum was badly damaged during the Great Patriotic War...