The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-11-21

n ITTSBURG, Pa, Nov, 20.-A recent
= interview and possibly the last
which newspaper correspondent
had with Count TOlstOi has been re-
counted by Nj. Arpad PasLtOr. a dis
Ulngulshed hungarian author and jour
nallsJ 10 the Associated Press here.
NJ. Pastor is editor of "Azest,' an
evening paper OF Budapest, and in
burg for a brief study of conditions
among hungarian Immigrants.
only two months ago. in September,
MT PASTOR, proceeding by train from
MOSCOW, dropped off at Nasnaya Poliana,
"A little village about two miles from
the last railway station III the province
of Tuia.
1T was beautiful late summer day.
with every thing still green and in bios
som, as / approached in search of the
Tolstoi house. 1 located il, but l should
have said IL was not a Russian home.
for ] observed that several copies of
the London Times lay on The lawn.
Il noticed that a lady sat on the
Veranda reading. and presumed that she
was the Countess Tolstoi. If so. / knew
she was born German-the daughter of
a German professOr-and l addressed
her in German, asking If / might see
the great novelist.
Have you intrCductiOns.' she asked.
No, madame but are not his works
Z intrOductiOns enough?
But she demurred, if that were
the case our garden would be crowded
all the while. ] am sorry: my husband
/ is asleep now From what country do
you Gomez
Hungary 1 replied
Indeed, our secretary, MarkOViet-
I sky, is hungarian, too. You may speak
with him. Ny husband is very old and
weak and does not like TO speak with
visitors.
Son Admits Craft.
AT this she ushered me into the
house, where j first met the nOVelisTs
eldest son. who is perhaps forty five
years OLD Learning that l was an au-
thor, he admitted he also wrote, but
added that he abandoned authorship
I because IL seemed Impossible 10 use
| the TOistoi name, since his father had
already made il famous. He said he
preferred 10 take up art and sculpture,
and that he was studying with ROdin,
the famous Partisan sculptor.
M MarkOvietsky, the secretary, in
terrupted at this moment with a ia
miliar Go napOl,' which is our Hun
sarian Good day, and said il seemed
good 10 hear his native tongue again.
4 know you want 10 see TOlsIOi,'
he said, but he is asleep now, so let
us walk through the garden.
He took me through the Forest of
Oaks, which is the scene of The great
storm in Anna karenina, and then
through the great apple orchards,
where he presented me with a TOlstOi
apple and remarked, 'TOlstoi has the
finest and largest apple orchards in
Russia His wife sells the product
AT o'clock our walk was inter
rupted by The dinner bell at which
/ MarkOvietsky exclaimed "rOlstOi is
awake now. We must 90 back He
{ led me through the house, which is a
very simple and poor place. There was
no carpet on the floor, the walls We're
white and without a single picture.
'On all sides We're books, in every
room, and little furniture other than
plain chairs and tables In glimpse
/ had az TOlstois room l noted four
frac frfar fFrr
~ The head OF the bed, and / asked
what they might be for.
IN the night said MarkOVletsky,
+ rOlstOi often aWakens with ideas, and
he always writes them down He says
ideas are like mountains with a top,
and he means not 10 miss the summit
I II them.
f AT the dinner call all the family
made q change of clothes. which is a
daily practice, but not a rigorous one,
L I imagine, for Markovietsky wore no
cravat and his boots were dirty. \
I daughter who was picking mushrooms
i'm the garden came in with big bas-
ket fuu Of those delicacies just before
dinner. TolstOi is a strict vegetarian
" ] am sorry / cannot ask you TO din
ler' MarkOyietsky said, but such inVi-
T cations belong 20 the wife He seated
ME- in his own room, however and
While there ] noticed thousands Of lei
sers done up in packages OF lee or so
which, as was later explained, are sent
/ every two months 10 the museum al
Moscow
While I was regarding these things
the door opened and a tail man en-
tered From the white beard and hair
. and the peasant dress of blue trousers
Russian shirt and great boots l knew
at once il was Tolstoi
He shook my hands and sat down
opposite me His eyes were such as
one out of ten thousand men have
deep green eyes, which penetrate one
ike the A-ray-
lie said. You are Hungarian.
like Hungarians. My secretary is one
/ too. Where are you going
To Japan TO study art and IL