[231] V. G. Chertkov lived through hard times in England; his condition naturally reflected itself upon his family, among which number was his sister-in-law, O. K. Dieterichs, who was their guest at this time. [232] Tolstoi sent to the editor of the _Peterburgskaia Viedomosti_ a letter in regard to the children taken away from the Samara Molokans, and about those measures which were suggested as a means of fighting the sectarians and Old-Believers which were made in the missionary congress in Kazan. This letter was printed in No. 282, of October 15th. [233] Protestant ministers of various localities in Holland: L. A. Beller, A. De-Kuh and I-Kh. Klein, at a meeting in Grevenhagen, definitely expressed themselves against war and military service. [234] N took an adverse attitude to Chertkov’s social work among Englishmen. Chertkov fell ill with pneumonia. [235] To Moscow to be copied. [236] V. D. Liapunov (1873–1905), peasant-poet of Tula. Working in Tula, Liapunov in the autumn of 1897 came to Tolstoi that he judge his poetry. Tolstoi was very much pleased with the poems, contrary to his custom, for in general he did not like poetry. Tolstoi proposed that Liapunov stay in his house to help copy his manuscripts. [237] Afanasi Aggeev, a free-thinking peasant from the village of Kaznacheevka, 4 versts from Yasnaya Polyana. In 1903 he was sentenced by the Tula District Court to exile in Siberia for life for the public utterance of words insulting to the Orthodox Faith. He died in 1908. [238] N. Y. Grot (1852–1899), professor at the Moscow University, author of numerous articles on philosophic questions and editor of the magazine, _Problems of Philosophy and Psychology_. Tolstoi submitted his work, _What Is Art?_ to Grot to be printed in his magazine. Shortly before his death, at the request of Grot’s brother, Tolstoi wrote his recollections about him, which were printed, together with his letter to Grot, in the compilation, _N. Y. Grot, in Sketches, Recollections and Letters by Comrades and Pupils, Friends and Admirers_, Petrograd, 1911, and in the _Full Collected Works of L. N. Tolstoi_, issued by Sytin, subscribed edition, Volume XV; Popular Edition, Volume XXIV. [239] A. P. Ivanov (died 1912), ex-officer and old scribe, with whom Tolstoi became acquainted at the time of the census of 1862, having found him among the Moscow tramps. He led a vagabond life, coming or tramping from time to time to Yasnaya Polyana to help Tolstoi copy his manuscripts.