[81] Nicholai Gavrilovich Chernishevsky (1828–1889) and Nicholai
Alexandrovich Dobroliubov (1836–1861), Russian critics. Tolstoi
became acquainted with Chernishevsky when he published his works in
_Sovremennik_, which was edited by Chernishevsky.
[82] Five-year-old daughter of F. A. Strakhov.
[83] _Declaration of Faith_, later re-named _The Christian Doctrine_.
[84] The estate of Tolstoi’s brother, S. N. Tolstoi, in the district
of Krapivensk, in the Government of Tula, 35 versts from Yasnaya
Polyana.
[85] Count Sergei Nicholaievich Tolstoi (1826–1904). See for him in
_Biography of L. N. Tolstoi_ by P. Biriukov and in _My Recollections_
by Count I. L. Tolstoi, Moscow, 1914.
[86] The daughters of Count S. N. Tolstoi: Vera, Varvara and Maria
Sergievna.
[87] Charles Salomon, the translator of some of Tolstoi’s works
into French, and a professor of the Russian language in the higher
institutions in Paris.
[88] Sergei Ivanovich Tanyeev (1856–1915), composer, at one time
director at the Moscow Conservatory, an acquaintance of the Tolstoi
family, who lived three summers (1894–1896) in Yasnaya Polyana.
[89] On the Khodinka field at the time of the coronation celebration
of May 18, 1896. In the beginning of the year 1910, Tolstoi wrote a
little story called _Khodinka_, printed for the first time in his
_Posthumous Literary Works_, Volume III, published by A. L. Tolstoi,
Moscow, 1902.
[90] Timofei Nicholaievich Bondarev (1820–1898), a peasant of the
district of the Don. In 1867 he was exiled to Siberia for conversion
to the Jewish faith and lived in the district of Minusinsk, in
the Province of Yeniseisk, to the end of his life. Wrote a work
called _Industriousness and Parasitism, or The Triumph of the
Agricultural Worker_ (issued with abbreviations in 1906 in Petrograd
by _Posrednik_,) in which he proved the moral obligation of each man
to do agricultural work. Tolstoi wrote a long introduction to this
work. As to the impression which this work produced on Tolstoi, he
himself wrote in his book _What Then Shall We Do?_ (1884–1886) the
following: “In all my life, two Russian thinkers had upon me a great
moral influence and enriched my thought and clarified my philosophy.
These people were not Russian poets, scholars, preachers--they
were two remarkable men who are now living, and who all their life
laboured in the _muzhik_ labour of peasants, Siutaev and Bondarev.”
In his letter here mentioned to Bondarev, Tolstoi touched upon those
religious problems which Bondarev asked him. For more details about
Bondarev see in the article of C. S. Shokhor-Trotsky: “Siutaev and
Bondarev” (in the _Tolstoi Annual_, 1913), Petrograd, 1914, issued by
the Tolstoi Museum Society, following which are printed ten letters
by Tolstoi to Bondarev and some writings of Bondarev himself.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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