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Show i ' COUNTESSTOLSTOI I DIES NOVEMBER 4 I 5 LAMPORT t ONDON Nv 14 Countess Leo Toluol widow of the famous Russian W Pliei died at Yasnaya Poliana, No- nlh,r'4 according to a dispatch to M VhP Dailv Mail from Hclslngfors, quot IJg the Kraenala Gazette. rountess Tolstoi before her mar- .ce was Sophie Behrs. daughter ofi fashionable Moscow physician She L married to Count Tolstoi in 1862 The couple had sixteen children fount Tolstoi's vagaries in his later uf? which led him to flee from Ms fain-iv fain-iv in search of a simple mode of living liv-ing were said to have bern a great strain on his wife When the novelist became critical-iv critical-iv ill Jusl prior to his death m November Novem-ber i9i hp was lvinR in a por,y vf-l td iilaied room at a small ' illnee 80 rules 1 from bis estate at Vasnaya Polana, attended by his daughter. Ar C unl Tolstoi had expressed the wish ibat j no one seek him out, Countess Tolstoi 9 sent an urgent appeal that 9he be permitted per-mitted to join him in his EC-lf imposed exile ami hardships. The countess later received a touching touch-ing letter from the count and proceed Pd to fhp village, but was admitted to ,hn sick room only the night before t he died |