Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1910-11-25
|CQUNT TOLSTO|DEAD
COUNTESS, UNRECOGNIZED BY
HUSBAND, WITH DOCTOR
AT BEDSIDE.
DIED AT LONELY R. R. STATION
Great Russian Stricken on Has Way
to Hermitage-Special Sum-
moned to Attend Him Fail
to Save Life.

Astapova, Russia. - Count Leo Toll
stoi died peacefully. DR.. Makovetsky
and the other attending physicians and
Countess Tolstoi were at his side
when the end came. It was recog-
nized long before that his case was
hopeless, and after the countess had
been summoned and the other mem
bers of the family had gathered in an
adjoining room. the physicians issued
bulletin announcing that the activity
of the heart had almost ceased and
that Tolstoi's condition was extremely
dangerous.
Sought Solitude in Vain.
Tolstoi, accompanied only by DR..
Makovetsky, left his home at Yasnaya
Poliana for the purpose of ending his
days in solitude, to which he more and
more inclined during his later years.
His pilgrimage led him to the monas-
terry at Shamardine in the province Of
Kaluga, where he remained as the
guest of his sister, Marie, who is a
nun in the cloister.
Learning that his retreat had been
discovered. he insisted upon proceed
ing on his journey to the Caucasus,
where he hoped to spend his last days
close to the TOlstoian colony on the
shores of the Black sea. But during
the railroad journey he was overcome
with exhaustion and the cold and Max
ovetsky was compelled to have him
transferred to the flag station at Asia
pova where he was made as comfort
able as possible in the rude wooden
building.
Specialists Fail to Save Him.
For five days he had lain suffering,
first from bronchitis and later from
Inflammation of the lungs. Special
lists were called from Moscow and
other places, but Notwithstanding their
utmost efforts, the heart of the great
Russian responded but feebly to the
restoratives and stimulants.
Finally the attacks of heart fail.
ure increased alarmingly and many
hours prior to the end the physicians
had given up all hope. Countess Toll
stoi was admitted to the sick room
for the first time but her husband
failed to recognize her. She had
fastened to his bedside when she
learned several days ago that his ILL
ness was serious, but the physicians
had deemed it advisable that she be
kept away from the count, fearing her
presence might cause the patient emo
ton. Other members of the family
were from time to time admitted to
his presence and his daughter Alex.
andria has been in constant attend
ance.
Life of Leo Tolstoi.
Count Lyof Nikolaievitch Tolstoi
was born in Yasnaya Poliana, lula,
Sept. 9, 1928. In 1843 unit 1916 he
studied Oriental languages and law at
the University of Kazan. In 1851 he
went to the Caucasus district as an
ensign of artillery and served in the
defense of Sebastopol during the
Crimean wSr. To this period of his
career belong his earliest literary
works. He left the army on the con-
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Petersburg, where he made the ac-
quaintance of Turgeney and other dis
Russians.
Excommunicated by Syned.
In 1901 he was formally excommuni-
Gated by the Holy synod of the Rus
sian Orthdox church, and in a reply
to the edict of communication he
clearly enunciated his religious and
views. These included the
denial of the Trinity, of the Diety of
Jesus, and His vicarious atonement, of
orthodox conception of the future
world, of every iknd of sacramental-
ism, and similar dogmas, and were
substantially identical with those of
modern spiritual Unitarianism.