[22] Tatiana Andreevna Kuzminsky (born Behrs), a sister-in-law of
Tolstoi, wife of Senator A. M. Kuzminsky.
[23] _Konevski_, this is the way Tolstoi called the novel,
_Resurrection_, which he had begun then, the subject of which he
adopted at the end of the eighties from stories told by the well-known
Court-worker, A. Th. Koni.
[24] Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860), the great German philosopher.
Tolstoi evidently read the translation by Ph. V. Chernigovitz,
_Aphorisms and Maxims_, in two parts, 1891–1892. Tolstoi, as early
as 1869, wrote to A. A. Fet: “Do you know what the present summer
meant to me? Continual enthusiasm over Schopenhauer and a pile
of spiritual pleasures which I never have experienced before....
Schopenhauer is one of the greatest geniuses among people.”
[25] That which was noted down in his pocket note-book--Tolstoi had
the habit of putting down thoughts which came to him and which seemed
to him important in a pocket note-book which never left him. Later he
copied the most valuable thoughts into his Journal, revising, more
or less, as he went along. In rewriting from the note-book Tolstoi
often began the entry with these words, “I have been thinking” or
“I have it noted.”
[26] See Note 4.
[27] This essay, entitled _Shameful_, pointing out the cruelty and
senselessness of corporal punishment which the law at that time
applied to the peasants, was printed with omissions and alterations
in the Russian newspapers and later abroad in full in _Leaflets of
The Free Press_, No. IV, England, 1899; later it was printed in
_The Full Collected Works of L. N. Tolstoi_, published by Sytin,
subscribed and popular editions, volume XVIII.
[28] In the Moscow Little Theatre.
[29] N, a young artist living in the home of the Tolstois, after
refusing military service on account of religious convictions,
was placed in the military hospital in Moscow in the ward for the
diseases of the heart, where he was visited by Tolstoi. Later,
various difficult experiences and spiritual changes led him to agree
to military service....
[30] Nicholai Alexeievitch Philosophov, father of Countess S. N.
Tolstoi, wife of Count I. L. Tolstoi.
[31] A. A. Shkarvan sent Tolstoi his letter entitled “Why It Is
Impossible to Serve as a Military Doctor.” Later this letter, in
revised form, appeared in his book, _My Resignation from Military
Service. Notes of a Military Doctor_. (Published by _The Free Press_,
England, 1898, Chapter IV.)
[32] Maria Lvovna Tolstoi (1872–1906), second daughter of Tolstoi,
afterwards married to Count N. L. Obolensky.
[33] Count Ilya Lvovich Tolstoi (born 1866), second son of Tolstoi.
Has written a book, _My Recollections_ (Moscow, 1914).
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