TOLSTOY MUSEUM
Tolstoy's literary heritage, together with pictures, engravings, sculptures, and other material relating to him, are all being concentrated in the Tolstoy Museum in Moscow. More than 100,000 pages of manuscripts, letters, and other material which were formerly kept in the Lenin Library in Moscow, the Saltykov-Shchedrin Library in Leningrad, the Central Archive Administration, and the Literary Museum of the People's Commissariat of Education have already been transferred to the museum, which will also receive all the Tolstoy exhibits at the Tretyakov Gallery, the Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, and the Russian Museum at Leningrad. In the collection are" proofs with Tolstoy's corrections which reveal the process of his work on "War and Peace," "Anna Karenina," and other novels. Among other treasures are Tolstoy's diaries and letters covering a period of fortyeight years,: the diaries of Tolstoy's wife, and about 30,000 letters written to Tolstoy, some of them from' Turgenev, Nekrasov, and Fet.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 30, 3 August 1940, Page 19
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155TOLSTOY MUSEUM Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 30, 3 August 1940, Page 19
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