Memorial dates of Russia: Exhibition “Ivan Turgenev and Leo Tolstoy. Two Writers – Two Anniversaries” underway in Yasnaya Polyana Gallery in Tula Region

The exhibition “Ivan Turgenev and Leo Tolstoy. Two Writers – Two Anniversaries” is presented in Yasnaya Polyana Gallery (Tula Region). Two important dates are marked this year – the 200th anniversary of the birth of Ivan Turgenev and the 190th anniversary of the birth of Leo Tolstoy. The exhibition turns the spotlight on works and views of both writers, and the story of their friendship.

Letters, diaries, occasional notes, memoirs of contemporaries prove the natural ease and honesty in relations between two writers.