On Tourgenef's visit to Yasnaya see: Tobolskiya Goubern. Vedomosti, 1893, No. 26.
The Rousskoye Obozreniye, 1896, contains a letter from Tolstoy to Fet.
The Vestnik Evropy, June 1904, contains M. Zaharina's Vospominaniya gr. A. A. Tolstaya.
Zhisn P. I. Tschaikovskavo.
Pervoe Sobranie pisem Tourgeneva, 1840-1883; Petersburg, 1884.
P. A. Sergeyenko in Niva, No. 8, 1906.
CHAPTER XI
CONFESSION
What is the meaning of life? Thoughts of suicide. The traveller in the well. Schopenhauer and Solomon. Four ways of meeting the problem. The peasants' answer. The finite linked to the infinite. Faith essential. Faiths that obscure. Why life seemed meaningless. The search for God. The infallibility of the Church. Rites and prayers. Communion. The lives of the Saints. The Orthodox and the Sectarians. War. The need to unravel truth from error.