The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1910-12-02
LEO T0LsT0! DIES
AGED NOVELIST CLOSES HIS
LIFE IN VOLUNTARY
EXILE.
COUNTESS IS At BEDSIDE
Sinking Man Falls to Recognize wife
and Passes Away Without Regain
Ing conseIousness-RemaIned Un-
der the Ban OF Church.

Astapoya. Nov. 2l.-Count Leo Toll
stoi is dead. Doctor Makoyetsky and
other attending physicians and Coun-
tess Tolstoi and children were al his
side when the end. which was peace
full. came.
Efforts OF the church TO gather the
famous reformer into its folds eff
fected nothing. as neither side
yielded
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 80
province OF Kaluga. where he re-
mained as The guest of his sister.
Marie. who is a nun In the cloister.
OF 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 AstapCya. where
be was made as comfortable as pos
sible 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, the heart Of the
great Russian responded but feebly
TO the restoratives and stimulants ad-
ministered.
Sketch OF His Career.
Count Lyof Nickolaivitch Tolstoi,
usually called Count Leo Tolstol, nov
elist and social reformer. was born
August 2s. 1928. at Yasnaya Poliana.
In the province of Tula. Russia.
When twenty-three years old Toll
stoi entered the army and served in
the Caucasus and in the defense of
French allied forces. He first made
a reputation in literature by a series
of vivid sketches written from Sc
vastopol. and when he left the army,
soon after the Crmean war, he de
voted himself entirely to literature.
In 1901 Tolstoi was accommodated
by the holy synod and in October.
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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they should not be published until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 pukhobor Sect.
In 1895 Tolstoi wrote a powerful I
defense OF the Dukhobor Sect. which /
during the year had suffered great 4
persecution for its religious profes- 1
sions. 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.
Tolstoi several times was threat
ened with expulsion from Russia. and
several times. according to report.
was upon the point OF being exiled:
but he seemed on the whole to 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