[53] Marian Zdziechowski, a professor in the Cracow University, a
well-known social worker. In the _Sieverni Viestnik_ for the year
1895, No. 7, under the pseudonym M. Ursin, he contributed an article:
“The Religious Political Ideals of Polish Society.” In respect to
this article Tolstoi wrote him a long letter which was printed abroad
and later was reprinted in the _New Collection of Letters of L. N.
Tolstoi_, collected by P. A. Sergienko (published by Okto, 1911),
from which by order of the Moscow Court it was deleted. After this
letter M. E. Zdziechowski wrote several times to Tolstoi on the
problems of Catholicism, but to those letters, mentioned in the
Journal, Tolstoi evidently answered by a personal conversation during
the former’s visit to Yasnaya Polyana in the summer of 1896.
[54] In her letter addressed to M. L. Tolstoi, Vera Stepanovna
Grinevich touched most seriously and deeply upon the fundamental
problems concerning the religious upbringing of children. This letter
produced a very strong impression on Tolstoi and he intended to answer
it in detail, but other work drew him away from accomplishing this
resolution. The letter of V. S. Grinevich and the letter to her by
M. L. Tolstoi and V. G. Chertkov are printed in her book: _The New
School-family and the Causes of its Origin_.
[55] Nicholskoe, an estate of Count Olsuphiev near Moscow, close to
the station of Podsolnechnaia on the Nicholai railroad.
[56] Eugene Heinrich Schmidt, a German-Hungarian writer, resembling
in some respects the philosophy of Tolstoi. In the Nineties he
issued a magazine in Budapest: _Die Religion des Geistes_, and a
newspaper with a Christian anarchical tendency: _Ohne Staat_. In
1901 he printed a book in Leipzig, _Tolstoi, His Meaning to Our
Civilization_ (see also his article on the cultural significance
of the works of Leo Tolstoi, printed in the International Tolstoi
Almanac by P. A. Sergienko, published by _Kniga_, 1909.)
[57] Sergei Alexandrovich Rachinsky (1836–1902), a celebrated worker
for popular education, who sacrificed his lectures in the Moscow
University for his favourite occupation of teaching the peasant
children in the village schools to write and read. A relative to
Tolstoi on account of the first wife of his son, Sergei Lvovich,
and personally acquainted with Tolstoi as early as the beginning of
the Sixties.
[58] Written originally in English.
[59] The letter was called forth by the Italian-Abyssinian war, which
was then going on. The rather extensive beginning of this letter
has been preserved, but up to now has not been published anywhere.
[60] _Here follow words that have been crossed out._ Note made by
Prince N. L. Obolensky in the copy in possession of the editors.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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