[325.] Tolstoi was forced to stop his work in aid of the famine-stricken, as the Tula Governor forbade all non-residents without his permission to establish and help in the construction of soup-kitchens. Without these people it was impossible to continue the work. (See article “Is There Famine or No Famine?”)
[326.] The well-known Swedish physician, Ernest Westerlund, and his wife—parents of the wife of Count L. L. Tolstoy, Dora Fedorovna—who arrived from Sweden to visit her.
[327.] The novel, Father Sergius, which Tolstoi wrote from 1890–1891.
[328.] I.e., from V. G. and A. K. Chertkov.
[329.] The story, The Forged Coupon, begun by Tolstoi as early as the end of the eighties and only begun again by him at the end of 1902.
[330.] N. S. Lieskov (1831–1895), a well-known writer. In the last years of his life he shared in many respects the views of Tolstoi. The story of Lieskov mentioned by Tolstoi is called The Hour of the Will of God.
[331.] Five years later, in 1903, Tolstoi worked this theme out in a story entitled Three Problems.
[332.] The christening of the first child of Count L. L. Tolstoi.
[333.] About this time Tolstoi wrote to V. G. Chertkov: “My sickness at first began as dysentery, then I had very great pains and fever and weakness. Now everything has passed.”
[334.] Prince E. E. Ukhtomsky, the editor and publisher of the Petrograd Viedomosti.