Vladimir Chertkov with Leo Tolstoy in 1909. Photo: В.Г. Чертков via Wikimedia Commons.
The Chertkov archives
Daphne Sanders introduces an account, by academic Irina Gordeeva, of a project to conserve the history of the Tolstoyan peace movement
by Daphne Sanders
3rd February 2017
During 2016 the Quaker way once again converged with the life and work of Leo Tolstoy, when Friends House Moscow (FHM) provided a grant to assist Irina Gordeeva, of the Russian State University for the Humanities, to preserve in electronic form the deteriorating paper records of the Chertkov archives in the Lenin Library.
