Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-20
TOLSTOI DIES IN
WILDERNESS HUT
Bitter Against Wife and Church,
RuSSia'S Great Genius
Expires GrimIy
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ing the day, went far toward complet-
ing the patients exhaustion. After the
heart action had been strengthened the
patient fell asleep.
Countess Tolstoi and other members
of the family who had not before been
allowed to see Count Tolstoi, were ad-
mitted to the sick room while the
patient was sleeping.
Several important communications,
including that from Antonius, the
metropolitan of ST. Petersburg, were
not shown to Tolstoi the condition of
the count being considered too grave
to permit of his being agitated by writ
ten appeals to him to make his peace
with the church.
In the course of the day Tolstoi,
greatly weakened by failure to sleep.
lapsed into unconsciousness several
times. In. his conscious moments he
seemed to understand his critical con-
dition.
At a. m. DR.. Berkenheim, with
tears in his eyes, left the bed chamber.
SERVED IN CRIMEAN WAR
Count Lyof Nikolaevitch Tolstoi, usu-
ally called Count Leo Tolstoi, novelist
and social reformer, was born August
2S, 1928, at Yasnaya Poliana, in the
province of Tula, Russia. When 23
years old he entered the army and
served in the Caucasus and in the de-
fense of Sebastopol against the British
and French allied forces.
Toistoi first made reputation in lit
eratuae by a series of vivid sketches
written from Sebastopol, and when he
left the army soon after the Crimean
war he devoted himself entirely to lit
erature.
His "War and Peace" a tale of the
invasion of Russia by Napoleon in
1912, is regarded in Russia as a MASTER
piece, though his Anna Karenina,"
which appeared in 1876, and 1.-THE Co.'S
sacks" found greater favor abroad,
where his "Kreutzer Sonata" translat-
ed in 1890, also attracted wide atten-
tion.
Tolstoi wrote much on education and
published several short stories and
"reminiscences of childhood and youth,
but in recent years had devoted him.
self to religious teachings.
He made return not evil' the key
stone of the Christian faith and insist
ed that the literal Interpretation of the
Sermon on the Mount was the only
rule of the Christian life
In 1883 Tolstoi wrote 1.-THE Kingdom |
of God Within U.s." an important work |
on the social question, and in 1895 he |
wrote 1.-THE Four Gospels Harmonized |
and Translated"
HIS IMPORTANT WORKS
His many works included "My Con-
fession," Criticism of Dogmatical
Christianity" "What I Believe" what
Is to Be Done?" 1.-THE Death of Ivan |
Ilyitch.' "The Power of Darkness" Ga |
drama), "On Life;" 1.-THE Fruits of En-
lightenment" "a comedy, 1.-THE King
dom of God Is Within You" what Is
Art?" "The Christian Teaching" "The
Resurrection" "The Slavery of Our
Time" ''What Is Religion?" and many
other works on the most varied SUBJ
jects.
In 1901 Tolstoi was accommodated
by the holy synod in October 1902,
he deposited his memoirs and diaries
with the curator of the Rumyzanoff
on the condition that they
should not be published until ten years
after his death. In November 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 powerful vim