Figure 1.--This illustration is an illustration about Tolstoy's book "Childhood". It is one of his loosely autobiographoical works, but is a fictional story based on his own upbringing. It shows a boy arriving at a boarding school. (Leo himself was utored at home.) It depicts a loving pupil teacher relationship. In lessons a boy of about 10 years old was likely to have worn a jacket, long sleeved white shirt. No tie was worn but the shirt was opened at the neck and the shirt collar was over the jacket top.

Tolstoy was educated at home by tutors. In the novel Childhood the young hero is also educated this way, but is also sent off to boarding school as seen here (figure 1). An illustration here shows a loving pupil teacher relationship. The boy is depicted as dressing similarly to students in Wetern Europe. Tolstoy himself was educated entirely at home by tutors until going off to university. We have no information on the titors at this time or how he was dressed. An image actually done by a contemporary shows Tolstoy as a slightly older student. Again he is dressed imilaly to a student bin the West. Tolstoy in 1844 began at the the University of Kazan. He started his university life on an Oriental Language course but transferred to a course to study law. He was not impressed with educational program and left the University in 1847 without a degree, returning to Yasnya Polyana.