From the entrance towers, the birch alley mentioned in “War and Peace” leads to the Tolstoy House. The alley has preserved its old-fashioned name “Preshpekt” (prospect). Tolstoy was very fond of this alley. He once wrote to his wife: “In the morning again the play of light and shadow from the big thickly dressed birches along the “preshpekt” over the already tall and dark green grass, and forget-me-nots and the dead nettles, and everything – most of all, the waving of the birches along the “preshpekt” – is just as it was sixty years ago, when I noticed this beauty for the first time and fell in love with it”.
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