Salt Lake Telegram | 1910-11-21 | Page 6 | Peasants Pay Tribute to Tolstoi's Memory

PEASANTS PAY TRIBUTE TO TOLSTOI'S MEMORY ST j POV A. A Russia Nov No 21 Peasants P Peasants all ill da day Sunda Sunday pass passed d through the death chamber hung with pine boughs where Tolstoi lives li Many of them Knelt be besIde beside beside be- be side his Ills bier The Thc silence at t times was broken by orthodox chants forthe for for- tho the r re repose re- re pose poe of or the tho dead Countess Tolstoi sat beside the tho body boel for tOt hours The light light I of tho the world is out she said repeatedly She left the tho hut only to attend matins in the school chapel chap l. l expecting that ti r. requiem would be sung sling When informed that this was not not per per- she fainted T Tolstoi left a written wish that ho he be burled without pomp wreaths or 0 rites under r po oal oak on a hillock at where he b h i played as aa a H aChild achild child and where the peasants welt accustomed accustomed tomed toned to congregate Tho The funeral funeral willbe willbe will willbe be held on Tuesday and the tho police havo just b been cn mobilised d to prevent public public- do demonstration in