2377 - Moscow, Russia

I received a great card from Stanislav in Moscow. It is a photo of Yasnaya Polyana, the former home of Leo Tolstoy, and houses the Tolstoy museum today. It is located about 200 km from Moscow.

Leo Tolstoy was born at Yasnaya Polyana in 1828. He is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. His best two novels are War and Peace and Anna Karenina. He has also written countless plays and philosophical essays.

Tolstoy was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, and 1906, and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902, and 1909 - none of which he won.

In 1870 he experienced a spiritual awakening and became a Christian anarchist and pacifist. His ideas about non violent resistance, expressed in The Kingdom of God is Within You. This book had profound effects on both Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Tolstoy died in Astapova.

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3566 - Bakhmach, Chernihiv, Ukraine

Bakhmach is locarted in northern Ukraine. I'm taking this next paragraph straight out of Wikipedia: During the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 26, 2022, at least 65 units of Russian military equipment moved through Bakhmach, with about a hundred more on the outskirts. Local residents tried to stop the convoy on their own by blocking tank tracks with makeshift objects and convincing Russian soldiers not to move towards Kyiv . One man attempted to climb onto a tank and block the road with his body (he was not hurt). However, the military equipment continued to move, and Russian forces fired several shots into the air. Слава Україні!

3564 - Kassel, Hesse, Germany

A wonderful message on this card that translates to to those wh o can wait, everything comes with time.

2352 - Cologne (Köln), North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Cologne is home to the twelve Romanesque churches. All are Catholic churches and all are found in Altstadt (old town). All were severely damaged during the 262 Allied air raids on Cologne. All twelves have been restored. St. Andreas was consecrated in 974. The crypt of the church as a sarcophagus that dates back to the third century and it holds the remains of St. Albertus Magnus, who died in 1280. St. Apostein was consecrated in the 800s. St. Cecilia was built in the 800s and it the current home of the Schnutgen Museum for Medieval Art. It still holds Catholic Mass on rare occasions. St. Georg's was built near the end of 1000s. It was extensively restored after the Second World War. St. Gerion's was established in 612. St. Kunibert was consecrated in 1247. Cunibert, the 9th Bishop of Cologne, is buried here. St. Maria im Kapital was built between 1040-1065. It was also heavily damaged during the war and restoration was finally completed in 1984. St. Maria Lyskirchem is the ...

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