Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-11-22
SPECIAL TRAIN BEARING RE-.
MAINS LEAVES AsTAPovA
WHERE NOVELIST DIEDsIN IA
RUDE HUT.
WIFE At DEATH BED,
BUT NOT RECOGNIZED
LAST HOURS WERE cLoupED nv
uNcoNscIousNEss WHICH PRE-.
VENTED PLANS FOR MAKING
PEACE WITH CHURCH.

PEACE With CHURCH. .,,s.,.
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Astapova, Nov. 21-A special
train, which will take the body a.
County Leo TolstoI 10 Yashaya
Polinla, left here this afternoon.
Count Toistol will be quietly
buried on the hill at his old home
IN Yasnaya Pollana. By l,ls wish 4
there will 30 neither ceremony nor
flowers and the burial VIII IS ~
trenely simple.
Astapova, Russia, Nov. 21- Count
Leo Tolstoi died peacefully Sunday
morning. DR.. Makovetsky and the oth-
er attending physicians, and Countess
Tolstoi were at his side when the end
came
Countess Tolstoi was admitted to the
sick room for the first time Saturday
night, but her husband failed to rec.
ognize her. She had hastened to him
when she learned several days ago
that his illness was serious and the
physicians had deemed 1t advisable
that she be kept away from the count
fearing that her presence might causos
= SAAe HsAsASAA
Life Of Count ToIsto.
Count Lyon Nicholavitct. usually
called Count Leo Tolstoi, novelist and
social reformer, was born August 28,
| 1928. at Yasnaya, Polianas in the prov
ince OF Tula, Russia. When 23 years
old he entered the army and served In
the Caucasus and In the defense OF
sebastopol against the British and
French allied forces.
He frst made reputation Ia litera-
i ture by q vivid sketch written on Se-
bastopol and when he left the army
soon after the Crimean war he devoted
himself to literature.
His War and Peace" a tale OF In
vasion Of Russia by Napoleon in ls13
and regarded in Russia az being his
lmagterpiece, though his Anna
Karenina," which appeared In 1876 and
The Cossacks" found greater favor
abroad, which with his Kruetxer
Sonota, translated In 1890 also created
wide attention.
Tolstoi wrote much on education
and "reminiscences Of childhood and
youth, but Of recent years he had de-
voted himself to religious teaching.
He made return not evil" the key-
stone OF the Christian faith ana In
sisted that the literal interpretation of
the sermon on the Mount was the only
rule of the Christian life. The religious
views of Tolstoi were set forth Ia hio
"Christ's Christianity" and my RE-
ligion-" 81
In 1893 he wrote -Ths Kingdom oe
God Within Us" and an important
work on the social question. IN 1896 he
wrote The Four Gospels Harmonixsd
and Translated His other works In
cluded my Confession" "Crlticissns Of
Dogmatical Christianity" What Be-
lieve; What is to Be Done,
what is Art "The Christian
Teaching. THE Resurrection" ~Ths
Slavery Of the Times" what u Rs-
Iligion' and many others on the most
varied subjects were Tolst0i's.
Tolstoi was excommunicated by
the Holy Synod and in October, 1908,
he deposited his memoirs and diaries
with the curator OF the Rumyanxof1
museum on the condition that they
should not be published until ten
years after his death and In November
OF the same year he legally made over
his whole fortune, including his real
and personal estate. to his wife and
children In 1895 Tolstoi wrote q DOW
erful vindication Of the Dukhober sect.
which in that year had suffered great
persecution for its religious profas-
| ing to permit it's publication Tolstoi
applied to the London Times. which
printed the lengthy article IN full.
| He continued from that time on to adj
dress his literary efforts to the British
press On March II, 1895, the London
Daily Chronicle published long letter
from Tolstoi to correspondent in
England on the Venezuelan dispute
which had recently arisen between the
| United States and Great Britain. It
was strong indictment Of war.
Tolstoi was several times threatened
with expulsion from Russia and was
severals times, according to reports.
upon the point Of being executed. but
he seemed on the whole to have been
| treated with unusual leniency in view
of his pronounced Views, especially as
fset forth in manifesto entitled "The
Peoples Rights His criticisms of Inn
lperial acts and his open letter to the
emperor.
| He was. however. expelled from
| Moscow In July 1901 and had since re-
/ sided ct Yasnaya Polina.
Not to Be Buried by Church.
| st. Petersburg, Nov. 21.-The duma
adjourned today's session out Of re-
spect for Count Tolstoi, who died at
Astapova yesterday. In proposing adj
! tjournment the president eulogized Tol-
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