[307.] See [Note 136].
[308.] The Tsurikovs and Ilinskys—neighbouring landlords.
[309.] Tolstoi wrote to V. G. Chertkov on that day: “I haven’t written for a whole week, but I feel pretty well. It seems to me that after the Moscow bustle my impressions are finding their place, the necessary thoughts are coming forth.”
[310.] See Letters of Count L. N. Tolstoi to his Wife, March, 1913, pages 543 and 544.
[311.] I.e., at his son’s, Count S. L. Tolstoi, on his estate of Nicholskoe, near the station of Bastyevo.
[312.] V. G. Chertkov then wrote an article, “Where is Thy Brother? About the attitude of the Russian Government to the People Who Cannot Become Murderers,” in the defence of the oppressed Dukhobors. This article was published in The Free Press (England, 1898).
[313.] G. R. Lindenberg, one of Tolstoi’s co-workers in aid of the famine-stricken, an artist.
[314.] The name of this teacher is Gubonin. Together with Lindenberg he came to Tolstoi from Poltava.
[315.] The Appeal served as the beginning of two articles on the labour question: Should it really be so, and Where is the way out? upon which Tolstoi worked during the year 1898 and revised it once again for printing in 1900.