"Death of Count Tolstoy," Inverness Courier, Nov. 18, 1910, p. 2f.   "The death of Count Tolstoy is announced in a telegram from St Petersburg dated 16th inst. Born on 9th September 1828, at Yasnaya Polyana, an estate about 130 miles south of Moscow, deceased was in his 83rd year. On this estate he spent the greater part of his life. In his youth he was gay and dissipated. He entered the army, and served in Sebastopol during the Crimean war. Tolstoy married in 1862, and had thirteen children, eight of whom grew to maturity. The affection of husband and wife stood the strain of opinions which Tolstoy formulated after he was 50 years of age. He came to be a strong advocate of celibacy; but he never wavered from enjoining that the marriage tie once formed cannot be dissolved, and he enjoined as the next best thing to abstinence, absolute fidelity. It need scarcely be added that his rules of life included vegetarianism and abstention from meat, smoking, and intoxicants as things calculated to interfere with the practices of the simple life. In Europe he became famous by his books especially 'Anna Karenina', and 'War and Peace'. Though an aristocrat he lived the life of a peasant, and preached socialism, non-resistance, and a mystical faith. Though he did not accept the divinity of Christ, he believed that God spoke through him. Tolstoy was a man by himself, with great literary power, a loving heart, and a fine but imperfectly balanced intellect."     "Death of Count Tolstoy," Inverness Courier, Nov. 22, 1910, p. 3d.   "Though the announcement of the death of Count Tolstoy was premature, it was only ante-dated by a few days. Count Tolstoy died at Astopove on Sunday. On Saturday he had several cardiac seizures. When he had recovered from one of them, he said to the six doctors who were in attendance - 'There are millions of people on the earth, and many suffer. Why, then, are you all around me?' The whole family were present at the deathbed. Countess Tolstoy attended morning service at the School Church. The Bishop of Kaluga (the government in which the great writer died), who came to see the Count and had some converse with him, left again. It is stated Count Tolstoy expressed a wish to be buried on the hill at Yasnaya Polyana, where he had played as a child. The proposed Requiem Mass for Count Tolstoy has not been held. It is learnt the Count died unrepentant and without reconciliation with the Church."     "Tolstoy's Funeral," Inverness Courier, Nov. 25, 1910, p. 7d.   "The funeral of Count Tolstoy took place on Tuesday at Yasnaya Polyana, amid remarkable demonstration of grief on the part of the many people who followed the remains to their last resting place."