Show DEATH OF TOLSTOI PASSING OF VENERABLE WRITER WHO HAD ADMIRERS ALL OVER THE CIVILIZED WORLD Although a Born Horn Aristocrat This Gifted Gift Gifted ed Russian Chose the Life of a it Peasant and B Battled With all His Might for the he Masses 1 Russia After a long life battle for right as he saw It Count Leo Tolstoi has has' been vanquished Ina in ina a contest with the grim reaper his death occurring Saturday morning Countess Tolstoi an and the atten atten ing physicians were at his bedside when the end came the last moments of the man who numbered his admirers by thousands all over the be world tag Ing peaceful and calm Tolstoi accompanied only by Dr left his home borne at Polina with the purpose of ending his days clays in solitude to which he ho more and more Inclined in his latter years Learning that ihs retreat had been discovered he insisted upon proceeding proceed proceed- ing on his to the Caucasus were he hoped to spend his last days close to the colony on the shores of the Black sea But on the railroad journey he was overcome with exhaustion and the cold and Dr was compelled corn com polled to have him transferred to the at where he was made as comfortable as possible Inthe In the rude wooden building His wife and members of his family hastened to his bedside but the phy physicians deemed it advisable to keep them hem away from the count during hi his conscious moments fearing the out out- I COUNT LEO TOLSTOI come ome of the emotion their presence would cause the patient The venerable venerable venerable vener vener- able writer passed away away without a word of farewell to the members of his family Count Lyof Nikola Tolstoi illy called Count Leo Tolstoi novelIst novel- novel 1st st and social reformer was born August August August Au Au- gust 28 1828 at inthe In Inthe the he province of Tula Russia When 23 years of or age he entered the army and served In the cavalry in the Caucasus Cau Cau- casus and In the defense of Sebastopol Sebasto- Sebasto pol ol against the British and French ailed allied allied ai al- al- al lied led forces He first made a reputation in litera- litera by a series of vivid sketches written from and when he left the army soon after arter the Crimean Cri mean war he devoted himself entirely to o literature Tolstoi was several times threatened threaten threaten- ed d with expulsion from Russia and was vas several times according to report report re- re port ort upon the point of being exiled but ut he seemed on the whole to have been een treated with unusual leniency In n view of his pronounced views He was however expelled from Moscow Mosco In n July 1901 and had since resided at Although Tolstoi came of an aristocratic aristocratic aristocratic aris aris- family he was at heart a peasant in the best sense of the word devoted to the improvement of the condition of the Russian masses and eager to lead them In the right path With these objects In view as early as 1875 he organized peasant schools on a new original basis co cooperated operated in the Improvement of af cheap popular publications organized relief for the tho starving population of middle Russia in 92 1891 renounced his property in copyright land and money and Inthe in inthe inthe the recent agrarian disturbances bances actually actually act act- but vainly invited the peasants to plunder his estate at Y Po liana Ilana Ther There he lived the life of a peasant In a peasants peasant's hut part partaking king only of simple peasants peasant's food and wearing the peasants peasant's costume rough costume rough blouse broad leather belt fur cap long beard wide vide trousers t tUcked into high cowhide boots But al although hough Tolstoi chose chobe the exIstence ex existence ex cx- of f a peasant his family occupied pied pled the substantial family mansion on the Ya n estate pot not far Car from Tolstoi's pe peasant sant huL hut |