[71] To the Coronation in Moscow there went: Countess S. A. Tolstoi
and Countess A. L. Tolstoi; while Countess T. L. Tolstoi went to
Sweden for the coming marriage in Stockholm of Count L. L. Tolstoi
and D. Ph. Westerlund.
[72] The branch post office, 7 versts from Yasnaya Polyana.
[73] Died in 1913.
[74] The well-known publisher of _Novoe Vremia_, M. O. Menshikov, a
contributor at that time to the liberal magazine, _Knizhki Nedieli_,
where among other things, he occupied himself with popularizing
Tolstoi’s ideas. In the article “The Errors of Fear,” printed in
that magazine in 1896 (Nos. IV to VI) Menshikov sharply condemned
certain governmental repressions of the time. For this article the
magazine received a warning. Towards the later journalistic activities
of Menshikov, Tolstoi took a critical attitude.
[75] Fedior Alexeievich Strakhov, a friend, who shared the views of
Tolstoi, author of philosophic articles published by _Posrednik_
under the titles _Beyond Political Interests_, _The Search For
Truth_. _Posrednik_ also published a collection of articles of
various thinkers compiled by him under the title _Spirit and Matter_
(against materialism).
Several of his other articles were issued abroad. For Tolstoi’s
review of the books of F. A. Strakhov see in Journal, August 15,
1910.
[76] Nicholai Nicholaievich Strakhov (died in January of this year).
[77] With F. A. Strakhov.
[78] Timofei Nicholaievich Granovsky (1813–1855), a Russian historian,
a professor at the Moscow University.
[79] Vissarion Grigorevich Bielinsky (1810–1848), the critic--see in
Journal, March 7, 1899, a comparison between Bielinsky and Gogol.
[80] Alexander Alexandrovich Herzen (1812–1870), a great writer. From
1847 to his death he lived abroad as an exile. His collected works
with censor deletions have been published in Russia only in 1905.
Tolstoi as early as August 4, 1860, wrote in his Journal, “Herzen,
a scattered mind, sickly ambition. But his broadness, skilfulness,
kindness and refinement is Russian.” Soon after, in the beginning of
1861, Tolstoi, being abroad, spent a month in London, where he saw
Herzen almost daily. In addition to the opinion expressed in this
note of Tolstoi’s about Herzen, it should be noted that afterwards
Tolstoi, appreciating him from another point of view, acknowledged
a broad educational significance to his works (see, for example,
Journal, October 12, 1895). In the letters to V. G. Chertkov of
February 9, 1888, and to N. N. Gay of February 13 of the same year,
Tolstoi called Herzen “a man remarkable in strength, in mind and in
sincerity” and expressed regret that his works were forbidden in
Russia, as the reading of them, according to his opinion, would be
very instructive to the youth.
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