Preshpekt (Yasnaya Polyana. Tolstoy Estate Museum)

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Picturesque birch alley leading from the entrance to the house towers writer. In a letter to his wife (1897), Tolstoy spoke of "Preshpekt": "The extraordinary beauty of spring this year, the village will wake the dead... In the morning again the play of light and shadows from the large, densely clad birches Preshpekt on too high, dark green grass, and me-nots, and Krapivka deaf, and all - most importantly, Mahaney birches Preshpekt the same as it was when I was 60 years ago, for the first time noticed and loved the beauty of this". "Preshpekt" is not mentioned once in the artistic works of Tolstoy, including the novel "War and Peace". In 1903, Tolstoy's wife Countess instead of old birch trees planted here eating. In 1965 he was again replaced by spruce birch.