Leo Tolstoy 1875 · Yasnaya Polyana
Breakfast & tea
09:00–09:30 · Estimated
Estimated by typical tue. 09:00 and a half-hour breakfast are editorial estimates from the morning sequence.Source timing: Morning, after dressing
“Soon after he would issue from his study fresh and vigorous, in a gray smock-frock, and would go up into the zala for breakfast. That was our dejeuner.”
Verbatim excerpt · Count Ilya Tolstoy
Line breaks and page markers omitted.
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” · after the morning dressing passage
Timing & context
The source places breakfast in the morning after dressing, without a clock time. Guests sometimes kept him in conversation.
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.