# Marriage and continued estate headship keep a paternal landlord household at Yasnaya Polyana

Date: 1862

## The fact

On 23 September 1862 [Tolstoy](/people/leo-tolstoy) married Sophia Behrs and remained head of the Yasnaya Polyana household, a landed estate whose peasant labour long outlived the 1861 emancipation statute.

It is one event.

## Context

A school on the same ground is an improving neighbour. Museum and Cambridge pages independently describe the household. Do not sensationalise private quarrels.

Leo Tolstoy’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Conventional years are 1828–1910. Surviving public files are later museum pages, collected-works sites, library catalogues, and encyclopedias. Tolstoy did not typeset those later pages.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file.

## Evidence and sources

The estate museum and Cambridge Tolstoy studies independently describe the marriage household and landlord role.

Official or archival record: Yasnaya Polyana Museum-Estate — official English page (https://ypmuseum.ru/?lang=en; Museum-Estate of L. N. Tolstoy “Yasnaya Polyana”).

## Significance

Inequality path of medium confidence on any one labour series, high on the continued headship.

## What is established and what is not

Established: he married in 1862 and remained estate head. Not established: a unique wage series for Yasnaya Polyana field hands.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Leo Tolstoy.

They are not a public rating.

The driver `income-inequality` is attached because the mechanism named in Significance follows from this instrument, not because a standing list of welfare headings needed another tick. Leo Tolstoy did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. A wedding is not a land reform. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Leo Tolstoy.

## People

- Leo Tolstoy: https://factrail.ai/people/leo-tolstoy

## Drivers

- Income Inequality: https://factrail.ai/drivers/income-inequality

## Sources

- https://doi.org/10.1017/ccol0521792711
- https://ypmuseum.ru/?lang=en

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/lt-estate-paternalism