The Oskaloosa herald., 1910-11-17
T0LSTO| IS FOUND
IN A MONASTERY
Russian Reformer Who Disap-
peared Traced to Refuge.
COUNTESS Tries 70 DIE
wife Deserted With Her Nine Chill.
dren Attempts TO Drown Her
self Through Hole
In Ice,

st. Petersburg, Nov. a. Special
Messages received from Koyelat, in
dictate that Count lie 1olstoi will pro
baby remove shortly to Canada to
join the Doukhobors. a church fana
tic sect, unless the grief Of his wife
induces him to return home. The re,
port that the count has affected a re-
Cancellation with the Greek Catholic
church which communicated him
when he wrote Resurrection. is not
believed here. Tolstoi has found a
temporary refuge in the convent at
Koyelat, where his fayorite sister,
Maria, has been an inmate for a num-
Der of years. His favorite daughter,
Alexandria, and his woman stenog-
rapher have joined him. Tolstoi dis
liked the manner In which his wife
and son have ministered his estate
and raised the rent on the peas
ants. The government will raise no
objections to his removal to Canada
St. Petersburg, Nov. 14.--Count Leo
Tolstoi, novelist and social reformer,
who disappeared from his home sew
eral days ago, has been found in the
old monastery OF Koselsk, in the
province of Kaluga. He has re-
nounced the world
simultaneously with the finding of
the count, his wife, overcome by the
desertion of her husband, is reported
to have twice attempted suicide by
drowning herself through a hole in
the ice.
She is in a state of collapse, and 1t
Is feared she will not recover.
Seen on Way to His Refuge.
Before it was definitely settled that
the count had entered the monastery
he was seen on the estate Of the Abri-
kosoffs, wealthy manufacturers in the
Mount ssensky district OF Tula prov
ince. + !
The fight of the count has made a !
painful impression. That he should |
desire to spend the evening of his |
days in solitude surprises no one ac- |
quainted with his career, but that he 1
should deliberately desert the mother
OF his nine children is difficult of be- |
Lief even in the light of his we'll |
known eccentricities Of character.
The suggestion of failing mental
ity is accepted by many in explana-
ton of the counts sudden action.
Note Left by Novelist. l.
In letter left for his wife the 1
count said:
7 cannot continue longer to live
surrounded by luxury, and, like many
other old men, retire from the world |
to complete my life in solitude. ask
that you do not seek my place Of So
journ and that you do not come to II
II II is. discovered. beg forgiveness
for the grief may cause you"
The novelist's reference to living
amid luxurious surroundings is signifi. !
cant OF his state Of mind, as he has
long lived the life of peasant. While
his family occupied substantial man.
sion on the Yasnaya Poliana estate.
Tolstoi abode In peasants hut, par
taking only of the simple peasants /
food and wearing the peasants cos
tune. a rough blouse, wide trousers
tucked into high cowhide boots. a
leather belt and fur cap. He has not
always conformed to this humble /
mode Of life. but It has been his
choice
In his writings Tolstoi has con-
demned suicide as immoral and IRA
tional and as indicating a perverted
view OF the significance Of life.