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Word: astapovo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tolstoy, the Soviets decided, should be commemorated with a museum -the stationmaster's dwelling at Astapovo, where the great novelist died 35 years ago. After a last bitter quarrel with his wife, Tolstoy had stormed from his Yasnaya Polyana home, entrained for Moscow to begin life anew at 82; on the train he was seized with chills and fever, got off at Astapovo, succumbed to pneumonia a week later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 24, 1945 | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

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