Leo Tolstoy 1875 · Yasnaya Polyana
Work in the study
09:30–15:30 · Estimated
Estimated by typical tue. 09:30 is estimated after breakfast. 15:30 is the midpoint of the source’s three-to-four-o’clock range.Source timing: After breakfast until three or four in the afternoon
“At last he would go off to his work, and we would disperse, in winter to the different school-rooms, in summer to the croquet-lawn or somewhere about the garden.”“till three or four in the afternoon silence would reign in the house.”
Two separate excerpts · 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 “At last he would go off to his work”
Timing & context
The recurring work period follows breakfast and lasts until about three or four. The memoir does not give an exact start or claim uninterrupted work every day.
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.