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| TOLSTOI’S HEADQUARTERS AT RJASAN. |
CHAPTER I.
FIRST ACQUAINTANCE WITH COUNT TOLSTOI.
Arrival at Rjasan—Tolstoi’s Early Life—Education—His Opinion of the
Universities—Unsuccessful Efforts to Help the Peasants in Years of
Dissipation—Establishes Schools on his Estate—Tolstoi as
“Peacemaker”—Educational Work and Opinions—Influence in Russia,
&c.—Tolstoi and his Critics.
It was on a cold, stormy morning in March, 1892, the year
of the great famine, that I arrived at the railway-station
of Klekotki, in the province of Rjasan. In company with
Madame B., who was also bound for the same place, I at once
set out to drive to the headquarters of Count Tolstoi, distant
some twenty-six miles across the plains, where he was hard at
work relieving the needs of the starving peasants. The grey,
woolly clouds were chasing each other at great speed;
snow-wreaths whirled about us, and a heavy fall had hidden the
road completely. At one or two points in the landscape we
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