[7] John C. Kenworthy, an English Methodist minister, a writer
and lecturer, who shared at that time the opinions of Tolstoi
and who founded in England an agricultural colony composed of his
co-thinkers. The author of the work, _Tolstoi, His Life and Works_,
London, 1902. There was printed abroad in the Russian Language in
the journal of _The Free Press_ (1899, No. 2, England) his _The
Anatomy of Poverty_. They were lectures to the English workingmen
on political economy, which struck Tolstoi favourably and which he
included in the manuscript which was then being issued under the
title of _Archives of L. N. Tolstoi, No. II_, and to which he even
wrote an introduction. In later life, Kenworthy fell ill of nervous
prostration and was taken to a sanatorium.
[8] Albert Shkarvan, a Slav, who shared Tolstoi’s opinions. An army
surgeon in the hospital in Kashai (Hungary), he resigned from this
service in February, 1895, for religious reasons, for which he was
imprisoned for four months.
[9] The Russian sect of Dukhobors, living in the Caucasus in 1895, to
the number of several thousand souls, upon the suggestion of their
leader, Peter Vasilevich Verigin, who was at that time in exile, gave
notice to the authorities that they would no longer take the oath or
serve in military service, and, in a word, would no longer take any
part in governmental violence, and in the night from the 28th to the
29th of June of that year, burned all their weapons. Cossacks were
sent against them and after some executions, two hundred were put in
prison, many were exiled from their native land and forced to live
in Armenian, Georgian and Tartar villages in the Province of Tiflis;
about two or three families in a village, without land and with the
prohibition against intercourse among themselves. Those Dukhobors
who remained in active service and refused to serve, were sent away
to disciplinary regiments. (See _Dukhobors_, by P. Biriukov, 1908,
publishers, _Posrednik_; besides there is much material pertaining
to the history and the movement of the Dukhobors printed in various
issues of _The Free Press_.)
[10] The manager of the Moscow Little Theatre, Walts, used to call on
Tolstoi for the purpose of receiving information about the staging
of his drama, _The Power of Darkness_.
[11] Ivan Ivanovich Bochkarev (died 1915), former revolutionary
Slavophile who suffered much for his convictions. He became acquainted
with the group of people around Tolstoi because of his belief in
vegetarianism, to which he arrived independently of any one. In his
personal conversations with Tolstoi, Bochkarev disputed his religious
convictions, heatedly denying all his religious metaphysics. At this
time he lived near the village of Ovsiannikovo, six versts from
Yasnaya Polyana, on the estate of Tolstoi’s daughter, T. L. Sukhotin.
[12] Prince Nicholai Leonidovich Obolensky, the grandnephew of
Tolstoi--later married to Tolstoi’s daughter, Maria Lvovna.
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