The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-11-21
NOW COMES DEATH; IHAT'SALL
PEASANTS DECK TOLSTOI'S
BIER WITH BOtGHS.
Last words showed That Tie SIN Thought
% suiIerinx Masses Cneeremenial
Burial on Essate--Church Concession
Grand Dukes Tribute Of Grief.


Burial on Estate Church Concession
Grand Dukes Tribute Of Grief.
Special caMs Despatch 10 TIVE SUN.
ST. PErxRsBuno. Nov. ,O.-Count Tolls
toy. who died this morning at Astapovo.
passed away ten days after he had left
his homo at Yasnaya Poliana in search OF
solitude and peace Of soul.
The physicians allowed his wife and
family to enter the death chamber. hut
the Count was unconscious. There were
six doctors in attendance. two OF them
being heart specialists. who had been
summoned from Moscow on Friday.
Their presence drew a characteristic
remark from the patient yesterday. when
he was recovering from the second Of
the three violent cardiac attacks which
preceded his last hours.
There are millions OF people in the
world said the dying Count. and many
Of them are suffering Why then are You
all around the bed ot one sick man.
These arc said to have pecn his last
coherent words. although hc lived several
hours after uttering them. When he re-
GOV erred from q previous artac<. no took
the hand Of his eldest daughter, Tatiana.
who was beside his he'd. and said Now
comes death That's all
His third seizure. early this morning.
left him 80 weak that the physicians saw
that recovery was hopeless and then they
admittad tho Totinqess
shortly after death the body was
clothed in the black shirt and moujik
garments which Tolstoy hshitually wor"
The expression of tho face was pcacefu,
and natural Tho villagers decSed IN"
death room with pine boughs and after
ward the residents Of the neighborhood
Of all classes and ages and many from a
distance walk ed past the bier 4 majority
of these mourners were peasants and
school children
II the present arrangements are car
ried out the body will he removed to
iasnaya Poliana tomorrow and will bc
buried on the Tostoy estate without
ceremonies. wreaths or other display. II
10 reported that Tolstoy wished his grave
10 be on a certain hill at lasnaya Pollana
where he was fond OF playing IN has boy
hood.
The Count did not make any reconcile
alton with the Church. There are con
t-adictorv reports Of attempts of eCcls-i-
estics to visit his dsathbed II Is stated
that the Bishop OF kalIEa was admitted
during his sickness and conversed with
him. Another story is that the abbot
and = monk from the Optin Monastery.
which Tolstoy visited IN route to SCha'n-
a~disnkv. spent some tirle At hrs bedside
on Friday. Eut This N denied elsewhere.
and the abbot and mons are said To have
waited vainly in a railway car for two
DAYS and nights hoping TO .e' the Count
There il alsS an i'm probable story II n priest
trying to force an entrance into tn. sick
room.
Whether the Church will allow nas.sH
to be said for the soul ~ n" Count is a.
vet unknown II IL report ed. however
{ ma with the view to avcrtinG possible
popular r, sengms mt the Holy synod viii
adopt the fiction that Toi-toy'E personal
visits TO IN" monast"ri's At Optin and
indicated his wish To r.
turn to orthodoxy. and 10 will conccce
rights
All privately owned theatres IN IN"
capital wer" closed tonight ont Of re-
sp.ct . Tolstry Tn. Grand Duk"
Nicholas Mict.anievitch has telegraph d
q the Countess Tolstoy. sFyiEE My
whol" soul il with you md your family
IN This sad time
The Holy Synod held thrn" meetings
to-day NJ Luz ianoT. ProcUrator OF
the synod. Also conferred with PrIn"
Minister S,oivpin rh" synod -,Ib-a
Tlently officially ammo Inc.d that n
rrlu .rn mlrses OF o'hs'r ecclesiastical
rites would b. allowed - D. perfornsi
over tn, BODY Of ONT Tolstpy.
Meanwhile Tpl-toys son Vladimir
declared nc .,stapovo that
his father Nee r".nc. in"d toward tn"
ch arch and that IN" orthodox idea Was
.bhorrent 10 him. n" went TO Schhmar-
iinsky merely 10 visit his sister. who il a
nun there.
Some Of the members ~ the Duma
and other friends Of Toi4tov compromised
the matter this afternoon by attending n
church where the priests consented To-
PRAYERS being offered for a nobl.man
named Leo" emitting the name Of Tol-
.toy.
The Project ~ st Pet~rsbu-g has for
hidden the new 4plpnr. - report any
religious rites that may he performed in
with Toitsoys death Tho
leading newspapers voic'' the widespread
ndi gnation against Count Tch"rtkor. who
/. accused Of preventing Countess Toistoy
from visiting her husband.
They say that the Count constantly
asked for her and dictated numerous
messages to her. believing she wa still
ut Yasnaya PoIiana
IL in insinuated that Count TcherfkofI
obtained a harmful influence over ToiStoy
In his later years caising friction bet y cen
MIN and the Countess and his family
Count Tchertkoh has possession 81 !
Tolstoy's manuscripts. including those II
thirty volumes Of memoirs and a novel |
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