TIRED OF LUXURY
SIMPLE LIFE FOB TOLSTOL
MAY REJOIN THE SOUKHOBOBS
(Received 8.30 a.m.)
ST. PETERSBURG, November 14.
Count Lee Tolstoi, who mysteriously disappeared from home and was subsequently discovered in the Schamardinsku monastery, will, it is believed, stay but a brief time in the monastery and will then proceed to Canada to rejoin the Doukhobors.
In a letter, Tolstoi declares that it was necessary to fly from the eternal noises which beset him, from the eternal editors, and from the eternal representatives of cinematograph and gramophone companies who besieged his home and made life bitter.
He was tired of a life of luxury and desired to live in poverty. Reuters Agency reports that the reports of the attempted suicide of the Countess are inaccurate.
It is understood that Tolstoi"s refusal of the Nobel Peace Prize of £7000, awarded to him last month, and his renunciation of the royalties, including an offer of £100.000 for the rights of all his books, caused an estrangement between Count Tolstoi and his family. The peasants regard liis retirement as the belated repentance of the orthodox church's bitterest foe.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 271, 15 November 1910, Page 5
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