Leo Tolstoy 1875 · Yasnaya Polyana
Tea & an evening with the family
20:00–21:00 · Estimated
Estimated by typical tue. 20:00 is stated. The one-hour calendar block is illustrative; the adults’ evening had no recorded end time.Source timing: Tea at eight, followed by the family evening
“at eight we had tea, and the best hours of the day began—the evening hours, when everybody gathered in the zala.”
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
The family regularly gathered at eight. Conversation, reading aloud, and music varied; the source gives no fixed end to the adults’ evening.
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.