The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1910-11-21
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Astopova, Russia. Nov. 21.-Count
Leo TolstOi. Russia's grand old man.
idol OF her masses. and nterateur and
teacher Of world fame for many years.
died at SOS O'Clock yesterday morn
ing.
His death followed his disappear
ance several days ago from his peas
ant hunt near his family mansion on
his ancestral estates, when after
disagreement with Countess Tolstoi he
left, intending to reach the TOlstoi
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 COM
pelled to have him transferred to the
flag station at Astapova where he was
made as comfortable as possible in the
rude wooden building.
For five days he had lain there suf
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 to the heart OF the
great Russian responded. but feebly to
the restoratives and stimulants ad-
ministered. short time before he
died he said in response to one Of the
efforts to revive him:
There are millions Of people and
many sufferers in the world. Why al
ways anxious about me-"
IAfe Of ToIstoi
Count Lyof Nikolaivitch Tolstoi.
usually called Count Leo Tolstoi. nov
elist and social reformer, was born
Aug 20, 1928. at Yasnaya Poliana, in
father and mother died while he was
stin in his early youth. He received
the usual education Of a Russian no.
BILE. first at home and afterward at
the University of Kuzan. At the close
Of his second year at the university he
returned to his Yasnaya estate and
spent several years in private study
until 1851. when he accompanied his
brother to the Caucasus and entered
the army.
Made . Brave Soldier
At the outbreak Of the Crimean
war. 1853, he was appointed to the
command Of a mountain battery He
took part in the siege Of Sebastopol
and distinguished himself by his brav-
cry. At the conclusion Of peace he re-
signed his commission.
Already famous as poet and novel
ist he plunged into the vortex Of the
most brilliant literary and fashionable
society in st. Petersburg. He then
travelled in Germany and Italy. In
1852 he married the daughter Of a
Moscow professor. and having been
appointed a magistrate, retired to his
estates in the country, where he de-
voted much time to the education and
improvement Of the peasantry, taught
in the schools and wrote educational
books which have become standard
works in Russia. One OF his flrst acts
on his estate was to free his serfs.
His Mssterpieee
His war and Peace" a tale of the
invasion Of Russia by Napoleon In
| 1912. is regarded in Russia as being
his masterpiece, though his ANNA Ka-
renina." which appeared in 1875. and
THE Cossacks" found better favor
abroad. where his "Kreutzer Sonata" !"
translation Of which was published in
1880. also attracted wide attention.
Tolstoi wrote much on education ana
published number Of short stories
and "reminiscences Of childhood and
youth. but Of recent years he had de-
voted himself to religious teaching. He
made Return Not Evil' the keynote
Of the Christian faith and insisted that
the literal temperament Of the SER
Of the Christian life.
Exeonmunieated BY the Greek Church
In 1901 Tolstol was excommunicated
by the Holy Synod. In November
1902, he legally made over his whole
fortune. including his real and per-
sonal estate. to his wife and children
In 1895 Tolstoi wrote powerful
vindication of the Dukhober sect
which during that year has suffered
| great persecution from its religious
professions. On the Russian censor
refusing to permit its publication Toll
stoi 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.
Tolstoi was several times threaten.
ed with expulsion from Russia. but he
seemed on the whole to have been
treated with unusual leniency in view
Of his strongly pronounced views.
In July. 1904. Tolstol wrote strong
article denouncing the Russo-Japanes<
| War. which caused the seisure Of the
Novosti of St. Petersburg, which pub.
lished it.
An Unconparable Prophecy
In 1907 he wrote q letter to Paul Sa.
batter Of Paris as a reply to the lat.
ter's book on the edisestablishment o.
the church in France. In this com
munication the Russian writer pre-
dicted the possible reduction of all th'
Christian countries OF the west to
state of vassalage to the Japanese ani
other Oriental people, basing the pre-
diction on the ground that It is only
in the Orient that religion and patriot
I ism are synonymous.