[316.] The deceased, N. N. Strakhov.
[317.] The county seat of the province of Orel.
[318.] A railroad station on the Moscow-Kursk Railroad.
[319.] Tolstoi speaks here of gymnastic exercises which he sometimes took (see entry of [May 11, 1898]).
[320.] Tolstoi used to receive contributions in aid of the famine-stricken from various people.
[321.] In this article under the title, “Is There Famine or No Famine?” Tolstoi answers the following questions: 1. Is there in the current year a famine or is there not a famine? 2. To what is due the oft-repeated need of the people? 3. What is to be done in order that this need be not repeated? These were printed with omissions in the newspaper, Russ, of July 2 and 3, of 1898 and in full in Leaflets of The Free Press, No. 2 (England, 1898).
[322.] The Countess S. N. Tolstoi (born Philosophov), wife of Tolstoi’s son, Count I. L. Tolstoi.
[323.] Neighbouring landlords near Grinevka.
[324.] After a tiring, long ride by horse, Tolstoi arrived at the Levitskys’, and fell ill of severe dysentery.