Peter Tolstoy. Archival photoMOSCOW, June 9Rejection of the heritage of Russian culture will lead Ukraine to «zero» its future, Deputy Speaker of the State Duma, a descendant of the great writer Pyotr Tolstoy, told RIA Novosti, commenting on the exclusion of Leo's «War and Peace» Tolstoy from the Ukrainian school curriculum. Earlier, Deputy Minister of Education of Ukraine Andriy Vitrenko said that Leo Tolstoy's novel «War and Peace» and other works glorifying Russian troops would be removed from the school curriculum.
Singing songs in Russian was banned in Ivano-Frankivsk»With the desire to get rid of not only War and Peace, but also the entire legacy of the great Russian culture, the Ukrainian rulers are nullifying the future of their own country, putting Ukraine out of the brackets of the world history,” the politician said. Tolstoy stressed that both Russian and Ukrainian youth have read and will continue to read “War and Peace” throughout the territory of “historical Russia.” sskogo, and what will remain? Nothing. Just a ringing void. Brodsky also wrote about it,» he concluded. Earlier, Vladimir Tolstoy, cultural adviser to the President of the Russian Federation, who is the great-great-grandson of the great writer, told RIA Novosti that the exclusion of Leo Tolstoy's novel «War and Peace» from the school curriculum in Ukraine would impoverish schoolchildren, since this is one 
Russian language is banned.
