The Cairo bulletin., 1910-11-14
COUNTESS TRIES
|. TO KILL H[R5ELF
WIFE OF TOLsToi TWICE TOOK
POISON FOLLOWING HIS
DEPARTURE.
COUNT LEFT HER note.
BeQs Forgiveness and Asks That
Countess Shall Not Follow
Hn1--Tired Of Living Sur
rounded With Luxury.

Tula, Russia, Nov 13.-Heart
broken at the sudden and unexplained
Disappearance of her husband, Count
! Leo lolstoi, the countess tried twice
today TO end her own life, taking
poison early in the day and later try
ling to drown herself by jumping
| through Il Role in the ice of a pon1
near the Tolstoi estate at Yasnaya
Paliana She was saved by her daugh-
ter Alexandra who had been care.
fully guarding her since the shock Of
her husbands disappearance seemed
10 overcome her,
| The mysterious disappearance OF
Count Leo Tolstoi the Russian novel
list and social reformer, has made a
lpainful impression. That he should
1 desira to spend the evening of his
days in solitude surprises no one ac-
quainted with his vicissitudinous ca
reer but that he should deliberately
| lesert the wife who had born him
rine children is difficult to believe,
even In the light Of his we'll known
eccentricities of character.
The suggestion of a failing men,
ltality is accepted by many in expla-
nation of the counts sudden leave
taking, which may have tragic Sc
Iquel, as the countess is prostrated
lit has Eeen reported even that sa'
| has attempted her life.
| The family were without clew to-
| day. In a letter left for his wife, the
4 count said:@ ~.
4 Il cannot continue longer to live
surrounded by luxury Like many
Iother old men | retire from the worlt
Ito complete my life in solitude.
Wants to Go Alone.
81 ask that you do not seek my
place of sojourn; that you do moi
come to it, if discovered.
/ 81 beg forgiveness for the grief that
may cause you"
The novelist's reference to Twins
and luxurious surroundings is sig
lnificant Of his state Of mind. as he
has long lived the life Of peasant
y While his family occupied substan
tial mansion on the Yasnaya Poliana
estate, Tolstoi's abode in a peasant
hut, partaking only of the sismrit
), peasants food and wearing the peas
ants costume He has not always
continued this humble mode OF life
but it has been his choice.
The first news of Tolstoi's disap
lpearance came from Prince DmitI1
| Oboelensky, who says that the coun
left lis home several days ago accom-
panied by DR.. Makostky, his. physi
clan. That the doctor should be
party to the affair is another ineZ
plicable feature. MaKostky became
the companion Of the count In sue
cession to the latter's private secre
tary, NJ Guseff, whom the govern
exiled to Siberia, alleging that he hac
influenced Tolstoi's anti-government
al writings.
Suffers Painting Spells.
!, Tolstoi has been in III health 70
some time. He suffered frequen
iainting spells and on October 18 wa
, unconscious for hours, Later 1t wa
: ,slreported that he had improved some
what.
,c Holt bof nj mr.
ceeded to an old monastery in tn
government Of Kaluga, which adjoin
. 1.-THE government Of Tula on the wes'
I He was last seen here, when he too
train on last Thursday on tn
Kiausani railroad. This road run
west through the capitol of Kalug'
which is about fifty miles from Tul:
Prince Dmitry Vol Obelensky
telegram Of yesterday stated th:
Tolstoi left his home on Oct. 10. Thl
Is obviously erroneous, as the cour
was Ill at his home on Oct. Is. TX
days dispatch from Tula says tn:
the author was last seen there, whe
he took a train on Nov. 10. This
il more likely correct.
g 1t Is reported that Count Tolls
n has been located In the Mount Sensk
Q district Of Tula province. He is =
the estate of the Abrikosoffs, tf
h well known manufacturers.
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