City Walk – Tolstoy’s Country, Connaught Place Walks by The Delhi Walla - September 9, 20220 Stroll in lit world. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] No Natasha. No Pierre. No Vronsky. No Anna Karenina. Not one of them is here. Some might suggest to rather look for them in the pages of Leo Tolstoy’s novels. But this is Delhi’s Connaught Place, entrenched with the spirit of the Russian novelist—and it’s September 9, and is his birthday today (194th). Here, Tolstoy Lane merges into the statelier Tolstoy Marg, and at the point where Tolstoy Marg starts you can see a tall bronze statue of the bearded Tolstoy. Oh, and a multi-storey complex on Tolstoy Marg is called Tolstoy House. This is a rare thing for a writer to have given his name to so many landmarks in one of