THE LATE COUNT.
IIIS LAST MESSAGE. November 24, 8.50 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 23. The Czar wrote on the margin of the official report of'the death of Count Tolstoy a eulogy of the deceased's creations of the Fatherland's types of character. Tolstoy, before his death, dictated the folowing message: "I am going away. Others remain who understand fhe purport of this life. To them it is given to carry out that which I aimed at doing and failed to do." The body was clothed in a peasant dress, p'aced in a plain oak coffin and conveyed to Yasnaya Pohana, Tolstoi's birthplace. To-day's burial rites,' in accordance with the wish of the deceased Count, were conducted without religious ceremonial.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10153, 25 November 1910, Page 5
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118THE LATE COUNT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10153, 25 November 1910, Page 5
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