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From: Jerusalem Post
Date: 19990115
Author:David Brauner

David Brauner
Jerusalem Post
01-15-1999
Vladimir Tolstoy, the 35-year-old great-great-grandson of Count Leo Tolstoy, recalls what it was like visiting his family's ancestral estate of Yasnaya Polyana under Communism. "I never liked coming here as a child," he recalls. "It was our house, but other people, the Soviet museum staff, were acting as its owners. They gave us tea and cake when we visited. But I never found that the cake was particularly sweet."

While working as a journalist in Moscow, Tolstoy wrote a series of exposes about local Soviet officials who exploited national treasures like ...

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