The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20
After Five Days Of Suffer
ing the Summons Comes
to the Aged Man
WIFE IS ALLOWED TO SEE
HUSBAND TOO LATE
Countess ToIstoi and Some of the sons
and Daughters Are Near The Bed
side, But Are Kept Away
JntIl the End

AstapoVa, Russia November 20
Count Leo Tolstoi died peacefully this
morning. DR.. Makovetsky and the otn-
er attending physicians and Countess
Tolstoi were at his side when the end
came. 1t was recognized long before
that his case WAS hopeless and al )
o'clock in the morning, after the
countess had been summoned and the
other members of the family had gath
cred In an adjoining room. the ply
sicians issued bulletin announcing
that the activity of the heart had al
most ceased and that Tolstois condi-
tlon was extremely dangerous.
Several of the physicians were great
| ~ overcome by the approaching death
OF Russias great writer.
Tolstoi. accompanied only by Dr.. [.
Makovetsky, left his home at Yasnaya
Follana FOR the purpose of ending his
| days in solitude, to which he more and
| more inclined during his later years.
HIS pilgrima ge led him TO the mon-
aStery at Shamardimo, 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 daNs
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 DR..
Makovetsky was compelled to have him
transferred to the flag station at As
tapoVa, where he made as COM
Portable as possible in the rude wood
en- building
Five Days of Suffering
FOR five days he had lain there. sur
1ering first from bronchitis and later
from an inflammation of the lungs :.
Specialists We're called from mn-sfas
ana other places, but OF tie great
their eiforts,uffsted but feehly To the
Raf11atfves and stimulants adminis-
tered. On saturday the attacks of heart
failure increased alarmingly and many
hours prior 10 the end the physicians
had given mp all hope
Countess Tolstoi was admitted to the
sick room for the first time last night
but her husband fAiled to recognize
her. She had FASTENED TO be beside
him when she learned several DAYS
ago that his Illness was serious. but tho
physicians had deemed ii advisable that
she be kept away from the count,
fearing that her presence might cause
the patient emotion.
Other members of the family were,
from time to time, admitted TO tie
presence of their father. and his daugh-
ter Alexandra has been in constant at
tendance.
Life of ToIstoi
Count Lyof Nikoaivitch Tolstoi usual
ly called Count Leo Tolstoi novelist and
social reformer was born August 2s.
| 1898, at Yasnaya Poliana, in the province
| of Tula, Russia. When % years of aee
| Tolstoi entered the army and served In
| the Caucasus and in the defense of Sc
bastopol against the British and French
allied forces. Ee first made a reputation
| in ~ pf SL
/ written from Sebastopol. and when he
| left the army soon after the Crmean
war he devoted himself entirely TO liter
| &ture.
His War and Peace a tale of The in
| vasion of Russia by Napoleon in 1872, is
regarded in Russia as being his master
| piece, though his Anna Karenina," which
| appeared in 1876 and THE Cossacks."
found better favor abroad. while his
"Kreutzer Sonata transations of which
were published in 1890, also attracted wide
| attention
! Tolstoi wrote much on education. and
published a number of short stories and
| "reminiscences of childhood and youth, but
OF recent years he had devoted himself
| TO religious teaching. He made Return
! Not Evil" the Keystone OF the Christian
faith. and insisted that the literal inter-
| pretation of the Sermon on the Mount
| was the only rule of the Christian life.
| The religious views of Tolstoi were set
forth in his "Christs Christianity and
| My Religion"
During 1898 Tolstoi wrote 1.-The King
dom OF God Within U.s. an important
work ON the social question. and in 1895
he wrote "The Four Gospels Harmonized
and Translated
| His Many Writings
His other works included MY Confess
| SION" Criticisms of Dogmatical Chris
tianity" What l Believe" What Is to
ne -.
1.-The Power of Darkness Ia drams).
ION Life" THE Fruits of Enlighten-
ment" Ca comedy, 1.-THE Kingdom of God
Is Within You" What Is Art?' Tho
Christian Teaching" THE Resurrection,
The Slavery of Our Times What Is
Reiigion?" and many other works on the
most varied subjects. In 1901 Tolstoi was
accommodated by the Holy Synod and
in October 1902. he deposited his memoirs
and diaries with the curator of the
| Rumynazoff museum on the condition
that they should not be published until
ten years after his death, and In No
yember OF the same year he legally made
over his whole fortune, including his real
and personal estate, to his wife and chill
dren.
In 1895 Tolstoi wrote a powerfK1# pdi-
cation of the Dukhobor sect whid ing
that year had suffered great persecution
from its religious professions. On the
Russian censor refusing to permit It's
publication Tolstoi applied to the Lon
don Times, which printed the long arn-
Gle in full He continued from that time
on to address his literary efforts TO the
British press. ON March II, 1896. the Lon
don Daily Chronicle published ions
letter from rolstoi To correspondent IN
England on the Venezuelan dispute, winch
had recently arisen between the United
states and Great Britair. 1t was strong
Indictment of war.
Treated With Leniencs
|. Tolsto was several times threatened
with expulsion from Russia and was
: several times, according TO report, upon
: the point OF being exiled byt he semed
, ON the whole to have been treated with
. rnusual lenienoy in view of his strongly
! pronounced views. especially as set fortn
, | in a manifesto entitled The Peoples
! Rights his criticisms Of imperial acts
: lsnd his omen letters TO the Emperor He
was, however. expelled from MOSCOW in
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