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Title: Travelogues;
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Holmes, Burton, b. 1870
Subjects: Yasnaya Polyana in 1901 Publisher: Chicago, Travelogue Bureau
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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THE VILLAGK STRKET We arrived at half-past eight in the morning ; for believ-ing that Count Tolstoi, despite his great age, seventy-twoyears, was still leading the life of a peasant farmer, wethought the hour none too early. But no one was astirexcept a servant. We wait for an hour and a half, drivingthrough the adjacent village, peopled by the folk whosefathers were the serfs of the Tolstoi estate. Rank miserypervades the filthy and disgusting village-settlement, no 186 MOSCOW better and no worse than villages in other parts of Russia.A deformed woman and a big strapping mujik are insistentin their demands for money, and servile in their thanks uponreceiving it. As we gaze about us, we strive in vain toreconcile the altruistic theories of the master and the existentconditions in this village at his gates. At ten oclock we again present ourselves at the countsdoor. His eldest son, who bears the fathers name,
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COUNT TOLSTOIS SUMMER VILLA received us kindly with the words, Father will be herepresently. Meantime we have observed, beneath a treenear the door, three peasant women waiting patiently ; theywere waiting there when we came first, two hours earlier.At last they seem to wake ; they rise expectantly as an oldman in mujik costume steps briskly down from the veranda.It is Count Leo Tolstoi, one of the worlds great men.

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