Refugee writers, artists and scientists, the majority of them from Germany, today proclaimed a campaign to raise funds throughout England for the purpose of rebuilding Yasnaya Poliana, the birthplace of the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, which Nazis destroyed, desecrating the Tolstoy Museum there and burning Tolstoy’s original manuscripts.
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