Yasnaya Polyana

I.V. Yegorov, Former coachman of the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, demonstrates things left after the expulsion of German troops from the estate-museum “Yasnaya Polyana“.
The Yasnaya Polyana museum was badly damaged during the Great Patriotic War. Documentary footage of the consequences of the barbaric plundering of the museum is in the famous film “The defeat of the German troops near Moscow”.

 

 

Location: Yasnaya Polyana, USSR
Date: 15 December 1941
Author: Oleg Knorring

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