[206.] Paul Carus, editor of a Chicago magazine, The Open Court, devoted to the scientific explanation of religious questions. (See his article, “A Tribute to Tolstoi,” printed in the International Tolstoi Almanac, compiled by P. A. Sergienko, Kniga, 1909.)
[207.] Evgenie Ivanovich Popov, friend and adherent of Tolstoi’s ideas, author of the book, The Life and Death of E. N. Drozhin (see [Note 38]), several other works on vegetarianism, the simple life, mathematics, etc.
[208.] The family of Count I. L. Tolstoi.
[209.] Vasili Vasilevich Longinov, later Rector of the Kharkov Theological Seminary.
[210.] In a letter to the Chertkovs of August 8, 1897, Tolstoi wrote: “I feel weak also from the fact, that we have a pile of visitors here ... all this wastes time and strength and is useless. I thirst terribly for silence and peace. How happy I would be if I could end my days in solitude and principally, in conditions, not repulsive and torturing to my conscience. But it seems that it is necessary. At least, I know no way out.”
[211.] Peter Alexeevich Bulakhov, a peasant from the province of Smolensk, belonging to the sect of the Old-Believers, the followers of which avoid military service.
[212.] Mikhail Alexandrovich Stakhovich, afterwards a member of the Council of Empire, an old friend of the Tolstoi family, and probably his sister, Sophia Alexandrovna, or his brother, Alexander Alexandrovich (1858–1915).
[213.] Probably—Vasili Alexeevich Maklakov, a well-known lawyer, afterwards a member of the Duma, and his brother, Alexei Alexeevich, a well-known Moscow physician.
[214.] Ilya Yakovlovich Ginsburg, a well-known Russian sculptor, who made several busts and statues of Tolstoi.