[160] _The Appeal_, under the title _Help_, was written and signed by P. I. Biriukov, I. M. Tregubov and V. G. Chertkov. This was an appeal to society to render assistance to the persecuted Dukhobors “by money sacrifices, so as to ease the sufferings of the old, the sick and the young, as well as by lifting one’s voice in defence of the persecuted.” _The Appeal_ was spread by the authors in manuscript and in typewritten copies and among other things was delivered to many persons of high position. Tolstoi wrote the appendix to it, in which he explained the significance of the act of the Dukhobors towards the realisation of Christianity in our life. _Help!_ was printed with Tolstoi’s appendix by _The Free Press_ (1897, England). The appendix is printed also in the _Full Collected Works of Tolstoi_, published by Sytin, subscribed edition, Volume XVI, popular edition, Volume XIX. [161] The editors were unable to ascertain the author of the history of music which Tolstoi was reading. [162] Jean Batiste Faure, the celebrated French singer and composer (in the second half of the Nineteenth Century), author of Tolstoi’s favourite duet, “The Crucifix.” [163] Vasili Stepanovich Perfileev, a former Moscow Governor, a friend of Tolstoi in the fifties and sixties, and a distant relative of the Tolstois. [164] An omission in the copy in possession of the editors. [165] This theme was not executed by Tolstoi. A work under a similar title begun by him in 1883 was printed in Volume III of _The Posthumous Literary Works of Tolstoi_, issued by A. L. Tolstoi. [166] Katiusha Maslov and Nekhliudov, the principal characters of the novel.