🎂 Writer Leo Tolstoy is born (1828)
Today it is a museum showing his house and his library of about 22,000 books.
Where: Yasnaya Polyana, Russia
Nearby on the globe: Main building of Moscow State University → 🌍 Open the 3D globe
📅 On This Day: September 9
September 9, 1828: Writer Leo Tolstoy is born. On 9 September 1828, Leo Tolstoy was born on the Yasnaya Polyana estate near Tula, Russia. In this very house he wrote great novels such as War and Peace and Anna Karenina, and he also started a school for peasant children.
✨ More events on this day
- 1839 💡 Scientist John Herschel took the first photograph on a glass plate in 1839, the same year he helped popularise the word 'photography'.
- 1892 🚀 Astronomer E. E. Barnard discovered Amalthea, a small red moon of Jupiter, in 1892, the last moon ever found just by looking through a telescope.
- 2009 💡 The Dubai Metro opened in 2009, the first city train network on the Arabian Peninsula, with trains that run without any driver on board.
🧠 Question of the day
What did Tolstoy start for peasant children?
- A football team
- A school
- An amusement park
Show the answer
Answer: A school
🎂 Landmarks that opened on September 9
Questions
What happened on September 9?
September 9, 1828: Writer Leo Tolstoy is born. It happened in Yasnaya Polyana, Russia.
Which landmarks opened on September 9?
Santa Monica Pier (opened 1909).
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