[167] Alexander Ivanovich Arkhangelsky (1857–1906), an adherent of Tolstoi’s views, about whom after his death in the letter of October 26, 1906, Tolstoi wrote: “This was one of the best men I ever happened to know in my life.” A. I. Arkhangelsky was a veterinary surgeon in the district of Bronnitsk, Province of Moscow. Later, becoming acquainted with the works of Tolstoi, he left his position, considering it impossible to apply against the peasants the compulsory measures required of him as veterinary surgeon, and became a watch-maker, by which he supported himself until his death. His work, _Whom to Serve?_ is devoted to explaining the question of the incompatibility ... with the service to God. When he read this work in manuscript in 1895, Tolstoi wrote Arkhangelsky that “it will do the people much good and will advance the word of God.” This work was issued only in 1911 in the Russian language by the publishing house, “_Vozrozhdenie_,” in Bourgas (Bulgaria). The same publishing house issued a biography of A. I. Arkhangelsky compiled by Kh. N. Abrikosov. Extracts from _Whom to Serve_ signed by the pseudonym, “Buka,” were printed by Tolstoi in _The Reading Circle_. It should be also mentioned that the publication of the _Veterinary Manual_ compiled by Arkhangelsky was suspended at one time by the censor, who demanded that it include the compulsory regulations. Protesting against this, Arkhangelsky wrote a remarkable letter to I. I. Gorbunov which Tolstoi included in his _Archives of L. N. Tolstoi_, No. 5. This letter formed the basis of the article, “Whom To Serve.” Later the veterinary manual was issued by Posrednik. [168] Prince Ilya Petrovich Nakashidze, a Georgian writer, a close adherent of Tolstoi’s ideas. [169] Tolstoi had the intention of writing (but did not write) an introduction to the Russian translation of the Philosophical Work of A. A. Spier, which was to have appeared in _Problems of Philosophy and Psychology_. [170] Tolstoi was considering at this time an appeal against the existing social-political order. [171] An omission in the copy in possession of the editors. [172] Stepan Andreevich Behrs, Tolstoi’s brother-in-law, author of _Recollections About Count L. N. Tolstoi_ (Smolensk, 1894), now dead. [173] V. G. Chertkov and P. I. Biriukov, and later also I. M. Tregubov, were exiled after a search of their homes: V. G. Chertkov abroad--P. I. Biriukov to Bausk in Courland, and I. M. Tregubov to Goldingen, also in Courland. The cause of exiling was the writing of an appeal to help the persecuted Dukhobors (see Note 160) and their activity in behalf of the Dukhobors and the persecuted sects in general. See the memoirs of P. I. Biriukov, “The Story of My Exile,” printed in the publication _O Minuvshen_ (Petrograd, 1909). These memoirs contain several letters by Tolstoi to Biriukov. [174] Tolstoi went to take leave of the Chertkovs who were then living in Petrograd.