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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3584 - Blaine, Minnesota, United States of America

The sender was in Las Vegas recently and bought this card from The Mob Museum. The Mob Museum, officially known as the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, is located in downtown Las Vegas. It open in 2012. It features artifacts, stories, and the history of organized crime in the United States, but also the actions and initiatives by law enforcement to prevent such crimes. The museum is found at the former Las Vegas Post Office and Courthouse, which was built in 1933. The quote on this card was from John Gotti. John Gotti (1940-2002) was the mafioso and boss of the Gambino crime family in New York City. After ordering the killing of Gambino boss Paul Catellano in 1985, he took over the family and led what was the United States' most powerful crime syndicate. He was known as The Teflon Don after three high profile trials in the 1980s resulted in acquittals. Later it was revealed that the trials had been tainted by jury tampering, juror misconduct, and...

3564 - Kassel, Hesse, Germany

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

2346 - Iwate, Iwate, Japan

Keita is a junior high science teacher in Iwate 岩手町. He sent me a photo of the Tokyo Sky Tower during a fireworks display. The Tokyo Sky Tower is a broadcasting and observation tower in Simide, a special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis. It became the tallest structure in Japan in 2010. In 2011, when it was completed at a height of 634 meters, it became the tallest tower in the world, and the second tallest structure in the world, after Burj Khalifa in Dubai, UAE.

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