Tolstoy Farm
Tolstoy Farm was the first ashram initiated and organized by Mohandas Gandhi during his South African movement. Created in 1910, the ashram served as the headquarters of the campaign of satyagraha against discrimination against Indians in Transvaal, where it was located.
The ashram was named after Russian writer and philosopher Leo Tolstoy, whose 1894 book, The Kingdom of God Is Within You, greatly influenced Gandhi's science of nonviolence.
Herman Kallenbach, a Gandhi supporter, allowed Gandhi and seventy to eighty other people to live there as long as their local movement was in effect. Kallenback suggested the name for the community, which soon constructed three new buildings to serve as living quarters, workshops, and a school.
