Russia - Tula Oblast - Metallistov Street

 

View of Metallistov pedestrian street in the historical center of Tula town, Russia

Sent by Iachenka from Tula, Russia.

Russia - Tula Samovars Museum

TULA - RUSSIA
The buildings of Tula Samovars Museum.
Designed by V. Sirotkin 1910.
Globe shaped samovar "Spider".
Late 19th century.
Brass, chasing, castwork, niekel plating,
Forging.

Sent by Galina, a postcrosser from Russia.

"The museum " the Tula samovars " , branch of Museum Association " Tula regional historical-architectural and literary museum " was open in 1990 on Mendeleevskaia street, 8 in the house that was built in 1910 – 1911 per design of architect V.N.Sirotkin.The basis of an exposition of a museum was made with the collection of samovars collected in various years in association "TOIALM". The exposition of a museum which consists of three halls, acquaints visitors with history of begining and development of one of the most known Tula crafts – Samovar making. The first hall tells about Samovar manufacturing in Tula in XVIII - XIX centuries. Among unique samples of the end of XVIII century - "sbitennik" which was the predecessor of a samovar, a pot for preparation of sbiten - a drink made from different types of grass, spices, honey."(Read more)

Russia - The Monument of L.N. Tolstoy

Tula
The Monument of L.N. Tolstoy

Sent by Olga from Kaluga in Russia.

This is from Wikipedia : Leo Tolstoy, or Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лeв Никола́евич Толсто́й​ , Russian pronunciation: [lʲov nʲɪkɐˈlaɪvʲɪtɕ tɐlˈstoj]; September 9 [O.S. August 28] 1828 – November 20 [O.S. November 7] 1910), was a Russian writer widely regarded as among the greatest of novelists. His masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina represent in their scope, breadth and vivid depiction of 19th-century Russian life and attitudes, the peak of realist fiction.

Tolstoy's further talents as essayist, dramatist, and educational reformer made him the most influential member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family. His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.