LEO TOLSTOI
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CAUSE OF SEEKING SOLITUDE.
HIS WIFE'S REPROACHES
(Roceiv.ed Last Night, 9.25 o'clock.)
LONDON, January 3
M. Boulariger, an intimate friend of the late Count Leo Tolstoi, in a fourcolumn article in The Times, ascribes the late Count's;, sudden impulse to seek solitude to his wife's growing demands. ■'■•: '■■'■".'■■ '".
The article; . concludes:—"Tolstoi agreed to entrust her with his diary. Ho also agreed tha;b Schcrtkoff, his old comrade and dosciple, should not visit his house. Ho neither met nor corresponded with Schortkoff. Yet, whenever he returned from his accustomed ride, he was overwhelmed with reproaches and accused of a secret meeting. The culmination was reached on hearing'.his "wjtfe, who believed him to be asleep, enter his study and begin to search hii papers."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10159, 4 January 1911, Page 5
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131LEO TOLSTOI Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10159, 4 January 1911, Page 5
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