History and Culture: The exhibition "Caucasian roads of Leo Tolstoy" in Karachay-Cherkessia
History and Culture: The exhibition "Caucasian roads of Leo Tolstoy" in Karachay-Cherkessia
17 November 2017
The M. O. Baychorova Karachay-Cherkess Historical-Cultural and Natural Museum-Reserve (Cherkessk) presents the exhibition of the Leo Tolstoy State Museum (Moscow) "Caucasian roads of Leo Tolstoy", which is based on unique materials stored in the museum's funds. Manuscripts, notebooks of the writer, photographs, picturesque and graphic works of famous artists allow to open the door to the creative laboratory of the young Tolstoy, to feel the bright, colorful and disturbing world of the Caucasus, in which he found himself in 1851, having arrived with his elder brother Nikolai Tolstoy and enrolling in military service.