The Paducah evening sun., 1910-11-15
PROBABLY DYING
LEO TOLSTOI is
FOUND NEAR HOME
Aged Socialist Leader Had
Gone No More Than
Eighty Miles.
Lyins In Ill-ventilated Rail-
road Station.
NO HOSPITAL IN THE TOWN

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st. Petersburg. Nov. 15.-Physic-
ians attending Count Tolstoi at Asta-
pova today announce his condition Is
critical and II is feared he cannot
recover. He Is lying in a poorly
ventilated railway station, there be-
ing no hospitals in the town. The
ICountess Tolstoi has not Joined her
husband
Broken down by hardships of a
winter journey, his mental strain,
,and a rupture With his family, Count
Leo Tolstoi last hight was found with
high fever in he little railroad sta
ton at Asrapova, barely, so miles
from his home at Yasnia Poliana. He
is attended by Or. Makovetski, who
was his sole companion when he left
his peasant hut a few days ago and
who carried along with him medi-
cines for Just such an emergency.
Tolstors daughter is acting as
nurse. Ffs
The temperature of the aged writ
Ter is 104. indicating probably serious
congestion. and 81 itself an alarming
symptom in onesof Tolstoi's years
The menta. anguish of the patient
handicaps the efforts of the physic-
ian 10 reduce the fever. Even If
Tolstoi RECEIVERS there can be no ques
ton OF his continuing the journey
% the shore of the Black Sea. He
had hoped TO escape notice after his
hasty departure from Yasnaia Poll
ana and spent srquiet week in fare
we'll with HIS sister Marie. a nun in
an ancient cloister In the province
Of Kaluga, but he. insisted on leav-
ing Immediately after he found that
his retreat had been discovered. He
drove in a carriage last evening from
Sharmindo TO Keoselph. accompanied
by his daughter Alexandria, and the
physician, in order to cover his
movements, and announced that he
was going to Moscow, where he has
house. Later. however. the party
changed its course and boarded a
slow local trai proceeding in the
direction OF Caueaius. Tolstoi and
his two companions made their way
% an unventilated third class coach
which was crowded With peasants.
At Mosphoc IT was sitting and he de-
veloped such fever that Makeavet-
ski thought II unwIse to attempt to
reach Dankov, the first town of any
considerable size along the line.
They left the train at Astapova,
which Is merely flag station. There
is no hospital there and only a few
peasant huts. The count was taken
into the station building. where he
remained during the night.
Little by little the story of the
authors pilgrimage TO date has be-
come known. In company with his
physician, Or. Makovetsky, he went
from Tula to the ancient cloister OF
shamardino, in the province of Ka-
luga, where he remained yesterday,
the guest OF his sister, Marie. The
latter for many years has been a
nun at the cloister, which was
founded 500 years ago. The nuns
mingle with the world, devoting
themselves to good work.
Stayed nc Monastery.
On the way to Shamardino, Count
Tolstoi stayed overnight at the mon
astery of Optina. Before entering
the place he announced:
4 am the communicated and
mathematical Leo Tolstoi. Is there
any objection to my staying here?"
The reply was: 1T is both a duty
and a pleasure to offer you shelter"
Tolstoi spent the day in the dis.
cussion of religious subjects with an
aged monk whom he had met on a
visit to the monastery seven years
ago.
The following morning the count
resumed his pilgrimage. He is clad
in a peasants suit of rough material
and wears high boots. He carries
no passports, and when he left home
he took only s17 with him. How
ever, his daughter, Alexandra, who
had learned of her fathers inten-
tions, contrived TO secrete $3.50 in a
pocket of Or. Makoyetsky's clothes,
and IL the count suffers for the
necessities of life 1t will be because
he elects to do so. Alexandra has
since Joined her father at Shamar-
dino.
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