The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-01-23
GROUP SETS UP
NEW COMMUNITY
Small Colony to Try Out
IAN Improved Boil
shevism"
SEARCHERS FOR TRUTH
| Grated Living Quarters on
Portion of Old Estate
Of Tolstoi
PoLYANA. ]

yAsNAYA PoLYANA, Russia,
ATLANTA. Jan. 2s,--The teach
yoyng women and an elderly matron
.,,o ,eegntly established on the
rols,ol estate what they term ian
,,,proycd bolshevik community"
Inscribed as an attempt to rectlfy
t,uure of communism, the mem
hsrs of the colony are the declared
snemles Of the destruction Of prop
,rty human or animal life ana thus
lsre arrayed against the soviet gov
''T'" Tbe members OF the colony make
rslxlon OF manual labor and de-
Il Iorotts chief tenet to be embodied
~ ,bN phrase Love thy neighbor
~ tgvsslr" They declare them
elves like Count Tolstoi. search
ars f,r the truth in all things
1bs, arrived here in early Scptem-
har with a permit from Moscow to
aa,rrv "a norton OF the estate now
C,sssod ns a national institution, A
,sschsr whose brother is director Of
,ho colony. organized the movement.
The * members, all of whom pro-
toss Tho practical idcalism of the
donkbobor sect with n mingled be-
,ief i'm buddhism, were allotted quar-
,ors IN "a once handsome but now
,un,blcd down one-story building of
,be estate built in 1880 for the serfs
Of Prince Volkonski. father OF Toll
sols mother.
The new arrivals have made the
4 building habitable and have started
4 10 prepare for the cultivation or the
100 acres included in their grant,
hnnn GtInnlia1 free
nv the soviet government, the same
n ss stIall visitors to the Tolstoi home.
n THIS 1hree women do the cooking.
Manager Must Move.
= The correspondent came first in
E,ou'act with a member of the colony
I'd IN a rather strange manner After
n long tourney, he had been en-
rolled as a pilgrim at the Tolstoi
home. according to the rules of the
institution. He was given bed in
II ,he ground floor room, characterized
a nv a big brick arch, n room occu-
MED by Tolstoi for some 10 years
Inst as-he was dropping Oft to sleep.
ne was reused by pleasing chords on
Inc grand piano located in the room.
"a The playing was done by young
u man who wore high boots. n belted
Jacket. and a sheepskin cap. See
lng the correspondent, he stopped
PLAYING and apologized, saying ne
didn't know the room was occupied
Then he went on to explain who he
was and began TO ask infor-
nation about the possibility OF
walking to India, by way OF Turke-
stan. lie wanted to study phiioso-
ply there. he said.
The 1O0-acre farm includes big
orchard plsnted by the famous Rus
sian author and one OF the first acts
OF the newcomers was TO whitewash
all the trees. This operation was
preceded by an animated discussion
as TO whether 1t should be done, Tht
young men carefully debated thls
problem. II the trees are not white,
washed. the orchard will be ruined
by insects but IL the whitewash Is
n applied the insects will die or star
vation and It Is wrong to destroy
D life. As the members Of the colony
4 are yegetarians and fruit is therefore
Artne prime article OF food to them
NJ necessity prevailed over ideals anc
the whitewashing was done.
A second problem was solVe'
II much after the same reasoning. 70
n many years the manager of the Tol
stol estate has been Prince Obolin
ski, who occupied a building once
used by the author as peasants
u school. The newcomers, declarlnl
that the presence of an oversee
might restrict their liberty or &C
ton" have decreed that the prime
n must go and the Obolinski tamil'
soon must seek food and shste
III elsewhere