in august, 1894, chekhov visited yasnaya polyana, tolstoy's family estate, and the two became good friends despite their divergent views on the role of literature and the arts. other outstanding works from chekhov's melikhovo period ...
Now I was in my 50s, and I was attending a conference of linguists in Yasnaya Polyana, the ancestral home of the Tolstoys. We stayed in an old Soviet-era hotel, which, while broken-down and crumbling, still had blaring loudspeakers ...
