[318] A railroad station on the Moscow-Kursk Railroad. [319] Tolstoi speaks here of gymnastic exercises which he sometimes took (see entry of May 11, 1898). [320] Tolstoi used to receive contributions in aid of the famine-stricken from various people. [321] In this article under the title, “Is There Famine or No Famine?” Tolstoi answers the following questions: 1. Is there in the current year a famine or is there not a famine? 2. To what is due the oft-repeated need of the people? 3. What is to be done in order that this need be not repeated? These were printed with omissions in the newspaper, _Russ_, of July 2 and 3, of 1898 and in full in Leaflets of _The Free Press_, No. 2 (England, 1898). [322] The Countess S. N. Tolstoi (born Philosophov), wife of Tolstoi’s son, Count I. L. Tolstoi. [323] Neighbouring landlords near Grinevka. [324] After a tiring, long ride by horse, Tolstoi arrived at the Levitskys’, and fell ill of severe dysentery. [325] Tolstoi was forced to stop his work in aid of the famine-stricken, as the Tula Governor forbade all non-residents without his permission to establish and help in the construction of soup-kitchens. Without these people it was impossible to continue the work. (See article “Is There Famine or No Famine?”) [326] The well-known Swedish physician, Ernest Westerlund, and his wife--parents of the wife of Count L. L. Tolstoy, Dora Fedorovna--who arrived from Sweden to visit her. [327] The novel, _Father Sergius_, which Tolstoi wrote from 1890–1891. [328] I.e., from V. G. and A. K. Chertkov. [329] The story, _The Forged Coupon_, begun by Tolstoi as early as the end of the eighties and only begun again by him at the end of 1902. [330] N. S. Lieskov (1831–1895), a well-known writer. In the last years of his life he shared in many respects the views of Tolstoi. The story of Lieskov mentioned by Tolstoi is called _The Hour of the Will of God_. [331] Five years later, in 1903, Tolstoi worked this theme out in a story entitled _Three Problems_. [332] The christening of the first child of Count L. L. Tolstoi. [333] About this time Tolstoi wrote to V. G. Chertkov: “My sickness at first began as dysentery, then I had very great pains and fever and weakness. Now everything has passed.” [334] Prince E. E. Ukhtomsky, the editor and publisher of the Petrograd _Viedomosti_. [335] “Is There Famine or No Famine?” [336] The weekly newspaper issued in Petrograd by S. F. Sharapov. [337] This was done in those places where Tolstoi organised aid to the famine-stricken. [338] I. C. Dieterichs, a former Cossack artillery officer, who held the same views as Tolstoi, a brother of Madame A. C. Chertkov, and his sisters, Maria and Olga Constantinovna. [339] There occurred in England at this time, some misunderstandings between several friends of Tolstoi, who had to be convinced by experience that having the same point of view is far from being of one mind. The misunderstandings were later smoothed over.