A Documentary About Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Films about Leo Tolstoy were restored by the USSR State Film Fund, 1960. Yasnaya Polyana, August 27-28, 1908 House of the writer Leo Tolstoy in Yasnaya Polyana. The writer's daughter A. L. Tolstaya rides in an open cart on the road in the village of Yasnaya Polyana. In the cart is a box with gifts for peasant children on the occasion of Leo Tolstoy's 80th birthday. Children run after the wagon. Peasants pick apples, walk with baskets in the apple orchard. SA Tolstaya (Leo Tolstoy's wife) walks along the path near the flower garden, picking flowers for a bouquet. The sons of the writer I. L. Tolstoy, A. L. Tolstoy, I. L. Tolstoy and their wives in the park. A. L. Tolstaya with a poodle on the platform near the house. Peasant women in smart sundresses are near the flower garden. A. L., M. L., I. L., S. L. Tolstoy pass by the house. Photographer T. Tansel near the house. Leo Tolstoy is sitting in an armchair on the balcony, next to him is S. A. Tolstaya, A. L. Tolstaya, V. G. Chertkov and I. V. Sidorkov. Yasnaya Polyana, January 7-9, 1910 Cameraman AO Drankov stands near a tripod with a movie camera and takes pictures of the writer Leo Tolstoy near the house. Next to the writer stands A. L. Tolstoy with his daughter Sonya. L. N. Tolstoy and D. P. Makovitsky (doctor, friend of L. N. Tolstoy) sit on horseback and drive away from the house. SA Tolstaya with children and grandchildren is near the house. L. N. Tolstoy and D. P. Makovitsky on horseback riding along the snow-covered alley of the park. L. N. Tolstoy and A. L. Tolstaya in a sleigh passing through the park. LN Tolstoy gives alms to the poor near his house. Beggars stand near the terrace of the house. AO Drankov takes pictures of Leo Tolstoy walking along the snow-covered alley of the park. Yasnaya Polyana, Shchekino railway station, September 3, 1909 L. N. Tolstoy and S. A. Tolstaya in a road carriage leave the gates of the estate in Yasnaya Polyana, followed by a road carriage with A. L. Tolstaya and valet I. V. Sidorkov. Leo Tolstoy passes along the platform of the Shchekino station. L. N. Tolstoy, A. L. Tolstaya, I. V. Sidorkov, D. P. Makovitsky, A. B. Goldenveiser (friend of the writer, pianist, professor of the Moscow Conservatory) on the platform. SA Tolstaya sits in a train carriage. Kryokshino, September 18, 1909 L. N. Tolstoy and S. A. Tolstaya with a bouquet of flowers are walking along the road to the station "Krekshino" after staying in the estate of V. G. Chertkov. Together with them, A. B. Goldenveiser, A. P. Sergeenko (writer, assistant to V. G. Chertkov), O. K. Tolstaya and others go to the station. S. A. Tolstaya and O. K. Tolstaya in a road carriage drive up to the station. L. N. Tolstoy, S. A. Tolstaya, A. L. Tolstaya, A. B. Goldenveiser, Sonya Tolstaya (granddaughter of L. N. Tolstoy, daughter of O. K. and A. L. Tolstaya) on the platform. A passenger train is approaching. Moscow, September 1909 Passenger train on the platform of the Bryansk railway station. L. N. Tolstoy, S. A. Tolstaya, A. L. Tolstaya and V. G. Chertkov among the greeters at the station square. L. N. Tolstoy, S. A. Tolstaya, V. G. Chertkov and A. L. Tolstaya visit the Tolstoy estate in Khamovniki. Seeing Leo Tolstoy at the Kursk station. Those seeing off greet the writer on the square, run along the railway tracks after the train. Cochets, September 1910 L. N. Tolstoy and S. A. Tolstaya visit the Sukhotin-Tolstoy estate. L. N. Tolstoy and S. A. Tolstaya are walking along the path in the flower garden near the house. LN Tolstoy walks along the edge of the forest, talks with a peasant and saws a log with him. S. A. Tolstaya and L. N. Tolstoy with their daughter Tatiana, granddaughter Tanya and other relatives on the porch of the house. L. N. Tolstoy writes, sitting on a round bench in the park. Film portraits of V. G. Chertkov, V. F. Bulgakov (secretary of L. N. Tolstoy), P. I. Biryukov (friend of L. N. Tolstoy and his first biographer), I. I. Gorbunov-Posadov (friend of L. N. Tolstoy, editor of the Posrednik publishing house). Astapovo, November 5-8, 1910 The building of the railway station and the platform of the Astapovo railway station. 1st class carriage allocated by the administration of the railway for the residence of the Tolstoy family. The house of the station chief, I. I. Ozolin, where the patient L. N. Tolstoy stayed. A group of doctors enter the house. SA Tolstaya talks with her daughter Alexandra on the porch of the house. Leo Tolstoy's body in the room. Yasnaya Polyana, November 7-8, 1910 Views of the Yasnaya Polyana estate on the eve of the writer's funeral. The peasants are digging the grave. Astapovo, November 7-8, 1910 Wreaths, the lid of the coffin is taken out of the house of II Ozolin. The writer's sons Ilya, Sergei, Mikhail and Andrei Lvovich carry out the coffin with the body of Leo Tolstoy. The crowd near the funeral train. The coffin is carried into the carriage with the inscription "Luggage". Yasnaya Polyana, November 8-9, 1910 Arrival of the funeral train at the Zaseka station. The funeral procession moves along the road on the territory of the estate. Local peasants in the first rows carry a banner with the inscription: "Lev Nikolaevich! The memory of your good will not die among us, orphaned peasants Yasn. Paul." The coffin with the body of Leo Tolstoy in his arms is carried in the crowd. A crowd of people near the writer's house. Leo Tolstoy's sons carry the coffin with the body of the writer out of the house. Those present in the courtyard of the house kneel down. The funeral procession moves to the burial site. The coffin is lowered into the grave. Leo Tolstoy's grave, decorated with wreaths, flowers, covered with snow.

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1910