The film tells the story of how fate brought together two outstanding representatives of Russian culture and art - Ilya Efimovich Repin and Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy. Repin visited Tolstoy in Yasnaya Polyana, which resulted in a series of portraits, drawings, and paintings dedicated to the great Russian writer.








Photograph - artist Ilya Efimovich Repin with a brush and paints while working on a painting.
Yasnaya Polyana - view of white stone buildings, park, wooden bridge, large pond.
Panorama of the white building of Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy's estate.
Various plans of the estate, porch, veranda, etc.
Chronicle of the 1900s - Leo Tolstoy in Yasnaya Polyana.
Park alley.
Panorama of the trees.
In the frame - a birch grove, panorama of a clearing, forest in the distance.
Panorama of a clearing, red wildflowers.
Rural landscape - field, winding road, tree.
Chronicle of the 1900s - Leo Tolstoy in Yasnaya Polyana, walking along the park alleys, reading a book on a bench.
Photographs of Leo Tolstoy.
Photograph - artist Ilya Efimovich Repin with a brush and paints while working on a painting.
In the photographs - Leo Tolstoy on horseback.
Photographs of village children, peasants, men.
Chronicle of the 1900s - Leo Tolstoy sawing a tree trunk together with a peasant.
Drawings, sketches by Repin - Count Tolstoy in the field, working with a plow, plowing, etc.
Painting by Ilya Repin "The Plowman.
Leo Tolstoy at the Plow".
Panorama of the blue sky with clouds.
Rural landscape - panorama of the field, trees, a forest is visible in the distance.
Panorama of the clearing, trees.
Painting by Ilya Repin "Leo Tolstoy Resting in the Forest".
Forest clearing, grass, wildflowers.
Forest - different frames.
Panorama of the trees, in the frame - a clearing and a lonely spreading tree.
Painting by Ilya Repin "Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Barefoot".
Photograph - Leo Tolstoy on his estate surrounded by family and friends, drinking tea from a samovar at the table.
The photographs feature Leo Tolstoy and Ilya Repin.
Sketches and drawings by Repin - Leo Tolstoy working in his office, mowing the grass with a scythe, playing the piano, reading a book on the sofa, in an armchair, writing, thinking, etc.
The drawing features Tolstoy with his wife.
Repin's painting of Leo Tolstoy sitting at the table with his wife Sofia Andreyevna.
Ilya Repin's painting "Leo Tolstoy at Work".
Repin's portrait of Tolstoy in an armchair with a book.
Repin's portrait of Tolstoy in a red armchair.
Photograph - Repin showing his colleagues a portrait of Tolstoy.
Artist, portrait, writer, estate, Yasnaya Polyana, painting
Tolstoy L.N. - Russian writer
thinker
publicist
1900
Tula region
Summer