This land had been taboo, off limits to all people outside the Soviet Union for 50 years and information was almost non-existent. Under the Soviet Union the town of Trakehnen was named Yasnaya Polyana or Yasnaja Poliana ("clear glade"). The Russians retained the original name meaning "Field" because they used the Russian equivalent, which is derived from "Polje" ("field").
After the fall of the Iron Curtain new beginnings for this devastated land have been started by East Prussians now after 50 years being allowed to go back to the homeland. There they are setting up horse breeding stables for the Trakehner horses in the original location again, together with the Russians now living there.
Yasnaya Polyana is also the name of the home of Russian writerLeo Tolstoy. For many years, the estate has been a museum.
Each stallion was assigned a private groom, always older and proven men that had spent their lives at Trakehnen and had that special "6th horse sense" built in.
There were no fences at Trakehnen, the horses were guarded by a man on a horse, watching over "his" friends every day.
But Trakehnen was much more than horses and people, operating one of East Prussia's biggest agricultural farms with 900 cows, 600 sheep and other farm animals.
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