The Oskaloosa herald., 1910-11-24
T0tST0I
Dies At AsTAPOVA
Wife and Children Present When
End Comes.
STILL UNDER BAN or CHURCH
Efforts Of Holy synod to Gather
Famous Novelist into It's Fold
FalIs--Sketeh Of His i
Life T.

FaHS-okerch OF MS
Life.
Astapova, Nov. 21.-4Count Leo Toll.
stoi is dead. Doctor Makovetsky and
other attending physicians and Coun-
tess Tolstoi and children we're at his
side when the end, which was peace
full, came.
Efforts Of the church to gather the
famous reformer into its folds ef-
fected nothing, as neither side
yielded. 81.
II was recognized long before he
passed away that his case was hope
less ..r. U.s..
Physicians Are Overcome.
Several of the physicians were
greatly overcome by the approaching
death of Russia's great writer.
His heart beat its last apparently
without a clear moment to enable
him to say farewell or cast forgiv.
ing look, upon his wife and children.
Tolstoi, accompanied only by Doctor
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 monastery at Shamardine, in the
province Of Kaluga, where he re-
manned as the guest of his sister,
Marie, who Is nun in the cloister.
or to Join Followers.
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 Doctor Makovetsky was
compelled to have him transferred to
the flag station at Astapova, where
he was made as comfortable as pos
sible In the rude wooden building.
For FIVE days he had lain there SUI.
fering first from bronchitis and later
from Inflammation of the lungs. Spe-
cialists were called from Moscow and
other places, but notwithstanding
their utmost efforts, the heart of the
! great Russian responded but feebly
to the restoratlves and stimulants ad.
mInistered. ~ ..rss4, mo- ;. +
Sketch Of His Career. p
Count Lyof Nikolaivitch .Tolstoi,
usually called Count Leo Tolstoi, nov.
elist and social reformer, was born
August %, 1928, at Yasnaya Poliana,
In the province Of lula, Russia.
When twenty-three years old Toll
stoi entered the army and served in
the Caucasus and in the defense OF
Sevastopol against the British and
French allied forces. He first made
reputation in literature by series
of vivid sketches written from Sc
vastopol, and when he left the army,
soon after the Crimean war, he de-
voted himself entirely to literature.
Some Of His Many Works.
His War, and Peace" a tale of the
invasion of Russia by Napoleon In
1872, is regarded in Russia as being
his masterpiece. though his Anna
Karenina," which appeared In 1876,
and The Cossacks" found greater
favor abroad. where his "Kreutzer
Sonata" translations of which were
published in 1890, also attracted wide
attention.
In 1901 Tolstoi was communicated
by the holy synod and in October,
1902, he deposited his memoirs and
diaries with the curator of the Rum
yanzoff museum on the condition that
they should not be published until
ten years after his death, and in No
vember of the same year he legally
made over his whole fortune, includ-
ing his real and personal estate, to
his wife and children.
Defense OF Dukhobor Sect.
/ Z In 1895 Tolstoi wrote a powerful
defense Of the Dukhobor Sect, which
during the gear had suffered great
Persecution for its religious PROBES
sfohs, on the Russian censor refus.
ing to permit its publication, Tolstoi
applied to the London Times, which
printed the long article; in full He
continued from. that time on to ad-
dress his literary efforts to the Brit
ish press.
2Tolstoi several times was threat
ehed with expulsion from Russia. and
several times, according to- report.
Was upon, the point OF being exiled;
but he seemed on the whole 70 have
been treated with unusual leniency.
IN view Of his strongly pronounced
views. especially as set forth In a
Manifesto entitled The. Peoples
Rights" his criticisms OF imperial
acts and his open, letters to the en-
peror., He was, however, expelled
from Moscow in July. 1901, and since
had resided at Yasnaya Poliana