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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19930228
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MOSCOW Directors of the estate where Leo Tolstoy lived and wrote are using state money to finance private businesses there, including a hotel for "intimate encounters," Tolstoy family members charged.

The managers of the grounds, one of the rare pre-revolutionary noble estates still intact, are creating firms, including a publisher of erotic literature using the Tolstoy name, for their own gain, they said.

"Their aim is to make a personal profit," Pyotr Tolstoy, a great-great-grandson of the famous Russian author, told reporters.

"What is happening there now has nothing to do with the ...

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