OPAS comes to Tolstoy centre
In Moscow, at the Tolstoy Centre, on 12 Pyatnitskaya, a new exhibition opened called “Nikita Tolstoy: Scholar, soldier, academician”. Especially for this exhibition, Thekla Tolstaya, using the izi.TRAVEL service, has created an audio guide that will tell visitors about the amazing life of Leo Tolstoy’s great-grandson – Nikita.
OPAS application users will be able to listen to stories about the education of Nikita Tolstoy at the Russian-Serbian gymnasium in Belgrade, his serving in the artillery in wartime and his scientific and research work.
The exhibition includes photographs, documents and items dating from the Tolstoy family’s emigration to Serbia, as well as letters from the front from Nikita Tolstoy, which he addressed: “Moscow Khamovniki, to Anna Ilyinicha Tolstaya”, and the original documents, which granted the right to the Tolstoy family, the first Soviet immigrants, to return.
Also, the academic office of Tolstoy was reconstructed using several family portraits which the visitors will see for the first time.
For Thecla, this is not her first experience of creating an audio guide in our system. Before that, she created the audio guide to the estate of Leo Tolstoy in Hamovniky by herself, which can be found in our application as well.
Despite the absence of any preparation for this work, Fekla admitted that, during the task, she did not encounter any difficulties and it was enough to record good quality audio just using a simple voice recorder sitting in a quiet room.
This audio guide is available free on Opas as the Estate of Leo Tolstoy “Hamovniki”.
