Leo Tolstoy, the Russian author of War and Peace, Anna Karenina, and other classics, had thirteen children. Six of those children had their own children, and they eventually produced nearly 400 direct Tolstoy descendants, almost 300 of them living today. Every two years, they get together for a reunion at the Tolstoy estate in Yasnaya Polyana, Russia, despite the fact that they live all over the world.
They renew family ties, try activities that recreate life in 19-century Russia, and play soccer and party games.But while the reunion is a bona fide good time, it’s also a lot more than that. “The first reunion literally turned my ‘consciousness upside down,’ as they say in…
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