Essay

Essay: Lev Tolstoy and England

Коммитета of Youth Affairs

Peter Pan Club

Essay: Lev Tolstoy and England.

Исполнитель: Михаил Rostovtsev Adviser: O. M. Rostovtseva Тула 2000 СОДЕРЖАНИЕ

Введение

1.Things in Yasnaya Polyana, which напомнить us about England.

Марии Николаевне Volkonskaya.

2.Lev Tolstoy English studies, goes abroad, визита в Лондон. Lev Tolstoy comes to Герцен в Англии.

3.English governesses and Tolstoy's children. Ханна Tarsey.

4.Tolstoy's descendants in Great Britain в наши дни.

Введение

First when I came to Yasnaya Polyana I was 6 years old. I liked it very much. It was very quite there, everything all around was covered with snow: the garden, the alleys and the houses. There was a school,"Philipok," организованной in the estate-museum and we studied many things there, чтение Lev Tolstoy's "Primer for children, talked about his relatives and children. We had classes in Volkonsky's House and I liked to climb the old лестница very much. We studied English there as well: we had кукольный performances and played a lot learning knew English words and expressions. But most of all I liked the house where Lev Tolstoy lived. There were a lot of books there, many of which were written in English. The master read all of them in the original. There were a lot of pictures on the walls where we could see the writer and his children. They also read those books and knew many foreign languages. How had Lev Tolstoy and his children learnt English so well? It was interesting for me, but I was a little boy then and was too shy to ask the teacher... Now in my report i'll try to find the answer myself.

1. Tolstoy's house and things, напомнить us about England.

The first thing we see in the hall as we cross the threshold of Yasnaya Polyana house are the birchwood cases packed with books in many different languages on all manner of subjects. Книги не только для чтения, приветствуйте гостей, но accompany them all over the house. Many of the books are English. Lev Tolstoy read them in the original. John Galsworthy, Bernard Show and H. Wells sent him their books with their own granting подписи.

On the upper landing of the лестница we can see the 18-th century grandfather's English clock that has a mahogany case with a turret on top. According to a family legend Tolstoy's grandfather - Принц Николай Volconsky, bought it. The clock was made by the London firm of FArdley Norton and is still going. It has a very melodic chime and shows not only the hours, minutes seconds and, but the day of the month as well.