Leo Tolstoy 1875 · Yasnaya Polyana
Read after dinner
18:00–20:00 · Estimated
Estimated by typical tue. 18:00 follows the estimated dinner duration. The 20:00 tea time is explicit, but the source does not say he read continuously until then.Source timing: After dinner; tea at eight
“After dinner he would go back to his room to read, and at eight we had tea,”
Verbatim excerpt · Count Ilya Tolstoy
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Reminiscences of Tolstoy, by His Son
Translated by George Calderon · Project Gutenberg eBook 813
Part I · “The Home of the Tolstoys”
Passage: “The Home of the Tolstoys” · paragraph beginning “After dinner”
Timing & context
A habitual sequence: dinner, reading in his room, then tea at eight. The precise start and uninterrupted duration of reading are not stated.
His son Ilya describes repeated household habits. Dinner at 17:00 and tea at 20:00 are explicit; other hours and durations are estimates. Visitors could delay work, and afternoon exercise varied.
1875 is a representative display year selected by Typical Tuesday. Ilya’s childhood memories describe country life during the 1870s. He dates his recollections from about 1872, before the family moved to Moscow in 1881.