Cool old map of Tula province...

I found this map on a Tula historical society website. (Click on it the map to the left for a larger image, or go to the original site, which has a GINORMOUS map)

I can't find a date for it, but judging by the cartographer (Il'in), I know it was made in the last third of the nineteenth century--so, it accurately depicts the Tula Province in the 1880s, when Tolstoy made his trek.

The highway that Tolstoy walked along is the open line that runs down the left side; the railroad runs to the right. I believe at the time the road was called the Rostovskoe highway (after the town Rostov). But it's not marked on the map so far as I can tell.

Interesting that the track for the electric commuter train (the электричка) that today runs through the region follows the path of the railway from the nineteenth century.

There are now two highways that run between Moscow and Tula--the M2 (an interstate, магистраль) and the Varshаvskoe (Warsaw) highway (Варшавское шоссе). The latter is like an old state highway in the US, running through all the little towns. It looks like the Varshavskoe follows very closely the old road that Tolstoy walked along--which is good to know, since we're taking the Varshavskoe. (It's illegal to walk along M2.)