Show DEATH OF TOL PASSING OF VENERABLE WRITER WHO HAD ADMIRERS ALL OVER THE CIVILIZED WORLD 0 although a born aristocrat this alft ed russian chose the life of a peasant and battled with till all his might for the masses Ast russia after a lifelong battle for right as he saw it count leo has been vanquished in IL a contest with the grim hla his death occurring saturday morning countess tolstoi and the att attending ening physicians were tit at his bedside when the end came the last moments of the man who numbered ills his admirers by thousands all oner oer the world being peaceful and calm tolstoi accompanied only by dr makovetsky left his bis homo home at polina with the purpose of ending his bis days daa in solitude to which he more and more inclined in ills his latter years learning that ihs fihs retreat had been discovered he insisted upon proceeding on his bourney to the caucasus welle he hoped to spend his last days close to the Tol colony on tho the thores shores of the black sea but on the railroad journey he was overcome with ith exhaustion and the cold and dr was compelled to have him transferred to the dag station at Asta where he was made as comfortable as possible in the rude wooden building ills his wife and members of his family hastened to his bedside but the physicians deemed it advisable to keep them away annay from the count during his conscious moments tearing fearing the out I 1 it 01 A V COUNT LEO corns come of the emotion their presence p cresence would cause the patient the venerable writer passed away avay without A word vord of 0 farewell to the members of his family count lyof Nik tolstoi ally called count leo tolstoi novelist and social le ie former was born angust 28 1828 at Po liana in the province of tula russia when 23 years of age he entered the army and served in the cavalry in the caucasus and in the defense of Se sebasto batto pol against the british and french allied forces ile he first made a reputation in litera by a series of vivid sketches written from Saba and when ho he left the army soon after the crl cri wean mean war he be devoted himself entirely to literature tolstoi was several times threaten ed with mith expulsion from Itus russia sla and was several times according to report upon the point of being exiled but he seemed on the whole to ha have hae e been treated with unusual leniency in view of his pronounced views lie he was however expelled from moscow in july 1901 and had since resided at although tolstoi came of an aris to socratic cratic family he was at heart 8 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 earl as 1875 lie he organized peasant on a now new original basis cooperated in the improvement of cheap popular organized relief for th st staging arNing population of middle russia in 1891 92 renounced his property it ir copi right land and money and IB ft the recent agrarian disturbances act bally but vainly invited the peas pea antt santi to plunder his estate at Yasna yaPo liana there he lived the life of a peasant in a peasants hut partaking only ot of peasants food and wearing tho the peasants costume rough blouse broad leather belt fur cap long board beard wide trousers tucked into high cowhide boots but although tolstoi chose the ex istance of a peasant hla his tam family lly occupied the substantial family mall mansion siOn on the estate not far from Tol peasant but |