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In our high season, from May 11 to October 31, the museum is open one hour longer on Saturdays and Sundays: from 9.00 to 18.00. The last guided tour on these days begins at 16.30
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Children's Play: "How Koshchei the Deathless Married Vasilisa"

May 24, 2013 at 18.00
Cultural Center of the Museum in the Village of Yasnaya Polyana

On the Day of the Slavonic Alphabet and Culture we invite our little visitors (older than 6) and their parents to the play “How Koshchei the Deathless Married Vasilisa,” performed by the actors of the Young Spectators’ Theater from Tula. Although we know all the characters of the play very well from Russian folk tales, this story will have an absolutely unpredictable ending! The authors of the play even call it “a tale the other way round.”

May 25, 2013 at 16.00
Cultural Center of the Museum in the Village of Yasnaya Polyana

Free admission. More information at: +7-915-680-43-08, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

You are welcome to a meeting with a literary scholar and writer Alexander Arkhangelsky. He will present his new book – “The Revolution Museum.” Discussion of the novel will move on to the discussion of the future of paper and electronic books, and to the results of the experiment on promoting the intellectual novel in the aggressive electronic environment. Alexander Gavrilov, a literary critic and the director of the Institute of the Book, will also take part in the meeting.

June 1, 2013 at 12.00
Cultural Center of the Museum in Tula (Oktyabrskaya st., 12-14, courtyard)

On International Children’s Day we invite children from Tula and Tula Region and their parents to the “Colours of Childhood” festival, taking place at our branch in Tula. Small guests of the cozy courtyard in Oktyabrskaya street are welcome to take part in creative contests and to see a varied entertainment program.

June 4, 2013 at 18.00
Cultural Center of the Museum in the Village of Yasnaya Polyana

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As part of the Year of Germany in Russia 2012/2013 the German writer Michael Ebmeyer will present to the Tula public his book “The Newcomer.” This meeting will be the last in a series of literary readings during which the author will visit Yakutsk, Chita, and Kazan. Such a broad geographical tour is a sort of ‘key’ to the knowledge of Russia and the Russian mindset, which is a leitmotif in the Ebmeyer’s book.

From May 17, 2013
Yasnaya Polyana Estate, Volkonsky House

Opening of the exhibition: on May 16 at 14.00

You are welcome to see an exhibition devoted to the 90^th birthday of Nikita Ilyich Tolstoy – a grandson of Leo Tolstoy’s second son Ilya Lvovich. As a young man, he was a soldier in the Red Army, and later a philologist, Slavicist, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, an outstanding scholar, and an extraordinary individual. Someone said he was “surprising and absolutely interesting, because his amazing knowledge, academic profundity and human insight let him see what is hidden from ordinary mortals’ eyes.”

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