[112] Hadji Murad, one of the boldest and most remarkable leaders of the Caucasian mountaineers who played a big rôle in the struggle of the mountaineers with the Russians in the Forties of the Nineteenth Century. In 1852 he was killed in a skirmish with the Cossacks. Tolstoi heard much about him as early as the beginning of the Fifties, when he himself took part in the fight with the mountaineers. A month after the above-mentioned note in the Journal, Tolstoi made a rough sketch of his story, _Hadji Murad_, on which he worked with interruptions until 1904. This story was printed for the first time in his _Posthumous Literary Works_ (published by A. L. Tolstoi, Volume III, 1912.) It is interesting to compare the introduction to it with the above note of Tolstoi’s in his Journal. [113] As in the copy at the disposal of the editors. [114] Afanasie Afanasevich Fet (Shenshin) (1820–1892), a Russian lyric poet and translator and friend of the Tolstoi family. Concerning the relations of Tolstoi with him, see _My Recollections_, by Fet (Volume II, 1890) and _The Biography of L. N. Tolstoi_ by Biriukov. In the letter of November 7, 1866, Tolstoi wrote to Fet: “You are a man whose mind, not to speak of anything else, I value higher than any one of my acquaintances’ and who in personal intercourse is the only one who gives me that bread by which it is _not alone_ that man lives.” Later Tolstoi and Fet became estranged from each other. [115] Kant, the German philosopher (1724–1804). For the opinions of Tolstoi about him see the Journal, February 19, and September 22, 1904, and September 2, 1906; August 8th, 1907; March 26, 1909. _Kant’s Thoughts_, selected by Tolstoi, were published by _Posrednik_, Moscow, 1906. [116] As a sixth sense, Tolstoi recognised the muscular sense. See the note of October 10, 1896. [117] S. I. Tanyeev. [118] The Shenshins--Tula landlords who lived on their estate, Sudakovo, five versts from Yasnaya Polyana. [119] Prosper St. Thomas, tutor of Tolstoi and his brothers. The incident mentioned in the Journal produced a tremendous impression on Tolstoi. “It may have been that this incident was the cause of all the horror and aversion to all kinds of violence which I experienced throughout life,” Tolstoi wrote afterwards in his recollections. (See P. Biriukov: _The Biography of L. N. Tolstoi_, Moscow, issued by _Posrednik_, Volume I, pages 99–100.) In Tolstoi’s story _Boyhood_, St. Thomas is pictured under the name of Saint Jerome. The incident mentioned here is described in Chapters XIV, XV and XVI of that story. [120] Written in English in the original. [121] Tolstoi, together with Countess S. A. Tolstoi, visited his sister, Countess Maria Nicholaievna, living in the convent of Shamordino near the Optina Desert. In his letter to her of September 13, 1896, Tolstoi wrote, “With great pleasure and emotion I recall my stay with you.” [122] The story, _Hadji Murad_. See Note 112.