Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-15 | Page 1 | Tolstoi's Widow Reported Dead

ili COUNTESS TOLSTOI, widow of I famous Russian novelist, whoae II III death on November I lu Russia U 1 1 reported. e 4 i-'-l TOLSTOI'S II REPORTED DEAD Countess Succumbs at Yas-naya Yas-naya Poliana, News Dispatch Says. LOXDON", Nov. 14. Countess Leo ! Tolf loi, widow of the famous Russian : novelist, d?d at Yasnara Poliana November No-vember 4, iiccording to a dispatch to the lA-iily Mail from HelsiDgfors quot-I quot-I ilig the Krasnaya Gazette. Countess Tolstoi before her marriage was Sophia Behrs, daughter of a fashionable fash-ionable Moscow physician. She was married to Count Tolstoi in 1862. The coupe? hu'l sixteen children. Count Tolstoi 's vagaries in his later Ufa, which led him to flee from his family in search of a simple mode of living, were said to have been a great sirain on his wife. When the novelist became critically ill just prior to his death in November, 1910, he was lying iu a poorly ventilated venti-lated room tt a small village eighty miles from his estate at Yasnaya Poliana. Po-liana. attended by his daughter. Aa Count Tolstoi had expressed the wish that no one seek him out. Countess Tolstoi Tol-stoi sent an urgent appeal that she be permitted to .ioin him iu his self-ini-I posed exile and hardships, i The countess laher received a touch- ing letter from the count and proceeded I to the village, but was admitted to the sick room onlv the night beforo he died.