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THE IDEA OF SELF-IMPROVEMENT IN EDUCATIONAL TRADITIONS OF LEO TOLSTOY’S ANCESTORS AND THE EXPRESSION OF THIS IDEA IN HIS LIFE
Grisenko E.P. 1

1. The State Memorial and Natural Preserve «Museum-estate of Leo Tolstoy “Yasnaya Polyana”»

Abstract:

The ancestors of Leo Tolstoy had ever striven to education, self-imrovement, moral and mental development. The family educational traditions influensed the life of the writer, especially his childhood and youth. The main task of upbringing in Tolstoy’s family consisted in stimulating creative, artistic and literary abilities, in development of personal and social skills, in teaching to love one’s neighbour and to show compassion for everyone. Leo Tolstoy had tried to follow those rules as a young man and he kept on following those life principles as adult.

Keywords: self-education, self-improvement, education, upbringing, young writer, the ancestors of Leo Tolstoy, library, Yasnaya Polyana, home theatre, artistic abilities, physical development, development of will, love of the neigbour, compassion

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