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Show I , A RUSSIAN PHILANTHROPIST. H ' Nought tlm Freedom of tho Serfs of Ills H , . Nutlvn Vitiligo. ' Cj" ' There died recently in Mo&eow n man . who in the last 'M years gave $3,000,-jfl $3,000,-jfl . 000 to charity, lie was State Councillor H .TonnakotV, who eaine from a jHJorfami- "-", ly. His lirst public act which excited (N general attontiou was the purchase of ' i the freedom of all the serfs liing in H his native village. This cost him $120,-H $120,-H h '' 000. He canio to the rescue of the poor H people time and time again when the H - harvests failed Ilia funeral was one H ' of the largest ever seen in the old burial H ' place of the Nubian czars, thousands H , of tho poor of tho capital following the H j., philanthropist's body to the grave. |