Yandex and the L. N. Tolstoy International Foundation will digitize the writer's legacy

2026: Fund Digitization Agreement

Yandex and the International Foundation "Heritage of L. N. Tolstoy" on March 11, 2026 announced cooperation. Yandex will become the general digital partner of the fund and will help preserve the cultural heritage of Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy.

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With the support of Yandex, the manuscript fund of the State Museum-Reserve of L. N. Tolstoy, including drafts - about 2 million sheets, will be digitized to celebrate the anniversary date. The materials will be used in the creation of the Tolstoy Manuscript Museum.

In addition, Yandex and the fund plan to create a digital ecosystem of Tolstoy's heritage. With the help of AI, they will process and systematize photos from Tolstoy's archive, synthesize the writer's voice and create a virtual world based on his works.

The ecosystem will be based on the Tolstoy Words project. In more than 10 years of work, the project specialists digitized Tolstoy's complete works in 90 volumes and created important research texts, as well as interactive materials about the writer. Cooperation between Yandex and the L. N. Tolstoy Heritage International Foundation on the eve of Tolstoy's 200th birthday is an important step in preserving and promoting cultural heritage. Thanks to him, materials that were previously stored only in the archives of the L. N. Tolstoy Museum-Reserve will become available online. Users will be able to access these sources from anywhere in the world, learn more about Tolstoy's life and work, and use digitized manuscripts and documents in their research.

In addition to the archives of L.N. Tolstoy, Yandex actively works with historical documents as part of a service - a service that helps to find references to people and events in handwritten materials. For this, the company uses a neural network - it has already decrypted more than 22 million archival documents.