Admission to the estate without a guided tour: 100 rubles.
Guided tours are held to the groups of up to 15 people.
The services of a foreign language guide cost an additional 1500 rubles per group.
Nikolai Volkonsky played a crucial role in the history of Yasnaya Polyana. He was the main developer of the estate, and also bought separate parts of Yasnaya Polyana from other owners and created the big estate that we now know as Yasnaya Polyana.
“The Yasnaya Polyana estate, located in the Krapivna district of Tula Province, with the manor house and its furnishings as well as parks, orchards, forests, plantings, ploughed fields, meadows, vegetable gardens, useless lands and farm buildings is a national property of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic” (Decree of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee about the nationalization of Yasnaya Polyana)