By Eduardo Garcia Aguilar
(To mark the centenary of the death of the Great Russian in November 1910)
At 86 years old lady Valentina Ievguenievna breathing is difficult, sitting on a bench by the dining table upstairs, in the Moscow home of Leo Tolstoy. One would say that the old master just out to cut firewood in the yard and is about to return from one moment to another. The old guide who works in this house for 30 years and earns a modest salary of 3,000 rubles is up and crawling on her slippers are on the piano which supported Chaliapin to sing.
begins to explain how they saved the thirty years the author of Resurrection to be eaten by a bear whose beautiful brown skin next to the instrument lies with his face aggressive, open mouth and a look of animal malherido.Tolstoi faced the beast but failed the first shot and fell into his clutches, of which broke free to shoot a second time. Days after hunters killed the animal and to find the bullet was found that the bear that almost killed him and gave him that skin now remains intact in the reception room on the second floor where they used to receive guests and having parties veiled aristocrats and gypsies, bohemians, revolutionaries and ladies of high society. All this tells
Valentina gives great detail: that the era of Limoges china, Sonia that women liked the rich and the poor and Tolstoy marginal when Chaliapin sang the candles went out and shook the windows, the teacher became angry when he lost a game of chess, his daughters supporting him in his noble aspirations and his wife and children looked after heritage men he wanted to give to the poor. The upstairs lounge has tables, furniture and original ornaments could be preserved as a museum in honor of the great novelist was created shortly after his death at the initiative of his wife and children. One imagines
parties and gatherings held there, in one of the places where the patriarch for decades around the world met in Moscow artistic and intellectual. Beyond the elegant dining room is carpeted and full of tables and luxurious furnishings of the midwife in the background Sonia and guest room. And after following a one rider meets the quarters of the daughters, old clothes for women of the house, the bicycle master Rover driving through Moscow, wide colonnaded tiled wood heating, the rooms of the home, while gradually fall outside the ochres of autumn leaves. And in one corner of the house is suddenly a delicious, low-ceilinged studio where the author wrote unceasingly between chandeliers and black leather sofas, where they spent most of his time national consciousness and the author most sacred loved and admired by the Russians. In an extensive wardrobe are cotton shirts, black boots and tools used aristocrat shoe store play at being rebellious cobbler.
went down the stairs to the floor, another old woman out of a novel of the early twentieth century with an old hat replaces Valentina astrakhan Ievguenievna and explains in detail Vania disease, the last of Tolstoy's beloved son, killed child because of scarlet fever and whose notebooks, pencils, drawings, toys and other objects are well preserved in a room specially devoted to the legend that seemed destined to be the spiritual heir of her elderly parent. Also see the family dining room, a stuffed bear in whose hands look a little round table where the guests left their visiting cards, and hung as if the teacher arrived, the huge and unmistakable black leather coat.
Tolstoy was born in Yasnaya Polyana in 1828 and died in Astapovo in 1910 because of pneumonia that he contracted to run away from home and walking alone in the rain and ice. In him we have been this image of eternal grandfather long white beard and eyes of Blinkin opacity. Is the archetypal nineteenth-century national writer of literary every prospect tries to emulate since adolescence and the clearest example of what literary glory, when a man plays a great nation and in this case Russia, the home of Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great, the great red Kremlin walls and Orthodox golden domes.
Now for the first time in life and after so many dreams for the house floor Muscovite admired genius, a great sense of familiarity pervades us. It is as if all that history so often read would have been arranged and he was a cantankerous old grandfather and tender than a distant grandson greets and invites him to go to the covered patio of autumn leaves. Tolstoy is there and pounding each other almost a hundred years after his death. You can hear their laughter, their words hoarse, dry cough of winter, the crackling of the fireplace, while the grandmothers who rule in this house and care for clean vases and furniture, we have daily life minutiae and the long twilight it was involving to everlasting glory. Already
soon snow will cover the rough and huge wooden house and the yard where he was playing with grandchildren and dogs and departed with ax wood for heating boilers. Not far away, down the street New Arbat or imposing new excels Treviskaia Russian warnings and bright screens and luxury shops, while the limousines and luxury cars of gangsters and new oligarchs pompous strutting their glitz and girls break the new skyscrapers futuristic landscape of the capital of a rich empire willing to continue leading the world.
begins to explain how they saved the thirty years the author of Resurrection to be eaten by a bear whose beautiful brown skin next to the instrument lies with his face aggressive, open mouth and a look of animal malherido.Tolstoi faced the beast but failed the first shot and fell into his clutches, of which broke free to shoot a second time. Days after hunters killed the animal and to find the bullet was found that the bear that almost killed him and gave him that skin now remains intact in the reception room on the second floor where they used to receive guests and having parties veiled aristocrats and gypsies, bohemians, revolutionaries and ladies of high society. All this tells
Valentina gives great detail: that the era of Limoges china, Sonia that women liked the rich and the poor and Tolstoy marginal when Chaliapin sang the candles went out and shook the windows, the teacher became angry when he lost a game of chess, his daughters supporting him in his noble aspirations and his wife and children looked after heritage men he wanted to give to the poor. The upstairs lounge has tables, furniture and original ornaments could be preserved as a museum in honor of the great novelist was created shortly after his death at the initiative of his wife and children. One imagines
parties and gatherings held there, in one of the places where the patriarch for decades around the world met in Moscow artistic and intellectual. Beyond the elegant dining room is carpeted and full of tables and luxurious furnishings of the midwife in the background Sonia and guest room. And after following a one rider meets the quarters of the daughters, old clothes for women of the house, the bicycle master Rover driving through Moscow, wide colonnaded tiled wood heating, the rooms of the home, while gradually fall outside the ochres of autumn leaves. And in one corner of the house is suddenly a delicious, low-ceilinged studio where the author wrote unceasingly between chandeliers and black leather sofas, where they spent most of his time national consciousness and the author most sacred loved and admired by the Russians. In an extensive wardrobe are cotton shirts, black boots and tools used aristocrat shoe store play at being rebellious cobbler.
went down the stairs to the floor, another old woman out of a novel of the early twentieth century with an old hat replaces Valentina astrakhan Ievguenievna and explains in detail Vania disease, the last of Tolstoy's beloved son, killed child because of scarlet fever and whose notebooks, pencils, drawings, toys and other objects are well preserved in a room specially devoted to the legend that seemed destined to be the spiritual heir of her elderly parent. Also see the family dining room, a stuffed bear in whose hands look a little round table where the guests left their visiting cards, and hung as if the teacher arrived, the huge and unmistakable black leather coat.
Tolstoy was born in Yasnaya Polyana in 1828 and died in Astapovo in 1910 because of pneumonia that he contracted to run away from home and walking alone in the rain and ice. In him we have been this image of eternal grandfather long white beard and eyes of Blinkin opacity. Is the archetypal nineteenth-century national writer of literary every prospect tries to emulate since adolescence and the clearest example of what literary glory, when a man plays a great nation and in this case Russia, the home of Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great, the great red Kremlin walls and Orthodox golden domes.
Now for the first time in life and after so many dreams for the house floor Muscovite admired genius, a great sense of familiarity pervades us. It is as if all that history so often read would have been arranged and he was a cantankerous old grandfather and tender than a distant grandson greets and invites him to go to the covered patio of autumn leaves. Tolstoy is there and pounding each other almost a hundred years after his death. You can hear their laughter, their words hoarse, dry cough of winter, the crackling of the fireplace, while the grandmothers who rule in this house and care for clean vases and furniture, we have daily life minutiae and the long twilight it was involving to everlasting glory. Already
soon snow will cover the rough and huge wooden house and the yard where he was playing with grandchildren and dogs and departed with ax wood for heating boilers. Not far away, down the street New Arbat or imposing new excels Treviskaia Russian warnings and bright screens and luxury shops, while the limousines and luxury cars of gangsters and new oligarchs pompous strutting their glitz and girls break the new skyscrapers futuristic landscape of the capital of a rich empire willing to continue leading the world.
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