Yasnaya Poliana is place where Lev Tolstoy was born in 1828, lived for about 60 years. The place is located in the Tula region, and for many years people came to the writer to talk, to ask for an advice, and sometimes to ask for some money. Here Tolstoy wrote many of his books and philosophical essays. But he was not destened to die in his home. At the stormy night on the fall of 1910 he left the house to look for a simple form of being and ... life. On his way he got ill and died in a very small train station Astapovo but his grave is in Yasnaya Poliana.