[359] V. A. Kuzminsky, a niece of Countess S. A. Tolstoi. [360] Countess Vera S. Tolstoi, a niece of Tolstoi, daughter of Count S. N. Tolstoi. [361] Tolstoi’s seventieth birthday, celebrated August 28, 1898. [362] According to the contract with the publisher of _Niva_, A. F. Marx, Tolstoi at the conclusion of the contract, received the whole of his royalty for only the first 200 pages of _Resurrection_. [363] In regard to the false rumours which were reaching Tolstoi at this time, about the affairs of the emigrating Dukhobors. [364] One of the Dukhobors exiled to Siberia, V. N. Pozdniakov, was sent by his brethren to the leader of the Dukhobors, P. V. Verigin, who was then in exile in the village of Obdorsk in the province of Tobolsk. Receiving a letter of instructions from Verigin for the group in general, he brought this letter to his brethren in the Caucasus and on his way reached Yasnaya Polyana. He showed Tolstoi marks on his body from ill-treatment he had suffered three years before. [365] Herbert Archer, an English co-worker with V. G. Chertkov, who went at his request to Tolstoi to transmit information to him with regard to the Dukhobors and to dissipate the false rumours about them which had reached Tolstoi from outsiders. About this time, in his letter to Countess S. A. Tolstoi, Tolstoi wrote about Archer: “He looks insignificant, but he is a very good man and a remarkably clever one.” (_Letters of Count L. N. Tolstoi to his Wife_, March, 1913, page 555.) [366] This thought Tolstoi changed in the following form for _The Reading Circle_: “Now I consider as myself my body with its senses, but then something entirely different is being formed in me. And then the whole world will become different, since the whole world is not something different, only because I consider myself such a being separated from the world and not another. But there may be an innumerable quantity of beings separated from the world.” _The Reading Circle_, issued by _Posrednik_, Volume I, Moscow, 1911, for April 16. [367] Tolstoi’s son, S. L. Tolstoi, and L. A. Sullerzhitsky went to the Caucasus to accompany the remaining Dukhobors to Canada. Tolstoi in order to protect them from the oppression of the authorities wrote a letter to the commander-in-chief of the Caucasus, Prince G. S. Golitsin. [368] Tolstoi sometimes could not remember which thought from his pocket note-book he had written out into the Journal and which one he had not. This explains the fact that several thoughts are entered without any changes at all in the Journal, in places not far from one another. [369] In the eighties and nineties the Tolstois went yearly from Yasnaya Polyana to Moscow to spend the winter. [370] Princess E. V. Obolensky, niece of Tolstoi, daughter of his sister, Countess Maria Nicholaievna. [371] In the finished form, the novel had 129 chapters.