OBITUARY
MR. AYLMER MAUDE
(British Official Wireless.) (Received August 26, 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, August 25. The death has occurred of Mr. Aylmer Maude, author.
Mr. Aylmer Maude was born in 1858 and educated at Christ's Hospital. From 1877 to 1880 he was a tutor in Russia. Later he went into business and became director of a carpet company in Moscow. In 1897 he returned to England and the following year he aided in arranging the migration of the Doukhobors, who had suffered religious persecution in Russia, to Canada. In 1918 he went to Russia again as a lecturer for the Universities Committee of the V.M.C.A. He became absorbed in Tolstoi (his interest in the Doukhobors may have been due to the fact that Tolstoi devoted the proceeds of his novel "Resurrection" to the aid of these people) and wrote a number of books on the great Russian novelist, becoming organising secretary of the Tolstoi Society and also winning fame as Tolstoi's foremost translator in English He edited the Tolstoi translations in the World Classic Series, and the Centenary Edition, and wrote a life of the novelist.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 49, 26 August 1938, Page 9
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