Astapovo Train Station, On the Right is the House in Which Lev Nikolayevich (Tolstoy) Died

1910

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These six photo-postcards show various places and moments surrounding the death and burial of Leo Tolstoy. In November 1910 the eighty-two-year-old novelist walked away from his great wealth to devote himself to Christian charity and died in a stationmaster's house after falling ill on a train. Tolstoy's death was of tremendous national importance, and how he was to be mourned–whether to kneel or stand at the grave, for instance–signified a contrast between old and new that would be decided during the Russian Revolution seven years later.

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Title: Astapovo Train Station, On the Right is the House in Which Lev Nikolayevich (Tolstoy) Died
Artist: Aleksey Ivanovich Saveliev (Russian, 1883–1923)
Date: 1910
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image: 8.9 x 13.3 cm (3 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.)
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Gift of Pierre Apraxine, 2010
Object Number: 2010.423.1
Curatorial Department: Photographs

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