Leo Tolstoy 1875 · Yasnaya Polyana
Dinner with the family
17:00–18:00 · Estimated
Estimated by typical tue. The 17:00 dinner bell is documented; the one-hour duration and 18:00 finish are estimated.Source timing: At five, the bell rang for dinner
“At five the big bell that hung on the broken bough of an old elm-tree in front of the house would ring and we would all run to wash our hands and collect for dinner.”
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” · dinner-bell paragraph
Timing & context
Five in the afternoon is explicit. The source does not specify how long dinner lasted.
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.