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YASNAYA POLYANA, Russia - On a sunny winter afternoon here, Vladimir Tolstoy, a great-great-grandson of Leo Tolstoy and an adviser on cultural affairs to President Vladimir Putin, strode up the birch-lined path that leads to the bucolic family compound where his forebear wrote "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina." It is now a state museum. At each step, he was greeted by staff members heading home for the day.

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