[61] Michail Petrovich Novikov, a peasant of the Province of Tula, who served a year as an army scribe in one of the regiments stationed in Moscow. After his acquaintance with Tolstoi he suffered much because of his endeavour to realise his beliefs in his life. A gifted writer. [62] Countess Tatiana Lvovna Tolstoi (born 1864), the eldest daughter of Tolstoi. In the year 1899 she married M. S. Sukhotin. [63] Maria Michailovna Kholevinsky, a woman doctor, living in Tula. By Administrative order, after the event mentioned in the Journal, she was exiled to Orenburg. [64] This letter, sent to both ministers (I. L. Goremykin and N. V. Muraviev) and to the same publishing house, was printed at first abroad in the paper _The Free Press_, No. 2, in 1902 (England), afterwards in Russia. (See _Full Collected Works of Tolstoi_, published by Sytin, 1913--popular edition, Volume XXII. It is known that the request of Tolstoi in this letter: To direct all the prosecutions for the spreading of his forbidden books in Russia to himself and not to his followers and friends, as well as a whole series of subsequent similar petitions to Governmental officials--was not granted.) [65] The second act of Wagner’s opera, _Siegfried_. For the impression produced on Tolstoi, see _What Is Art?_ chapter XIII--in the letter to his brother, Count S. N. Tolstoi, on April 20, 1896, Tolstoi under the fresh impression of this opera wrote the following: “Last night I was at the theatre and heard the celebrated new music of Wagner’s opera, _Siegfried_. I could not sit through a single act and I fled from the place like mad, and now I cannot talk calmly about it. It is stupid, unfit for children above seven years of age, a _Punch and Judy_ show, pretentious, feigned, entirely false and without any music whatever. And several thousand sat and pretended to be fascinated.” [66] Aphrikan Alexandrovich Spier (1837–1890), a remarkable Russian philosopher, who lived many years in Germany and who wrote his works in German: _Thinking and Reality_, _Morality and Religious_, etc. Tolstoi was then reading his principal work, _Denken und Wirklichkeit_ (_Thinking and Reality_)--in a letter of 1896 to Countess S. A. Tolstoi, Tolstoi wrote: “I am reading a newly discovered philosopher, Spier, and am rejoicing.... A very useful book, destroying many superstitions, especially the superstition of materialism.” (_The Letters of Count L. N. Tolstoi to his Wife_, Moscow, 1913, page 510.) [67] The philosopher’s daughter, Elena Aphrikanovna Spier, who sent her father’s works to Tolstoi. [68] Grigori Grigorevich Myasoyedov (1835–1912). A celebrated artist, the painter of the picture, “The Reading of the Ordinance, of February 19th” and others; one of the principal initiators and founders of the Society of Travelling Expositions. [69] Dmitri Dmitrievich Sverbeev, the Governor of Courland, an acquaintance of the Tolstois’. [70] The cement factory, Gill, within 7 versts of Yasnaya Polyana.