DEATH OF TOLSTOY
THE COUHTHS3 UHHECOONZSHD. <By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright). ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. IS. Tolstoy declines to receive his relations. fearing that they will shake his resolution to spend his remaining days in isolation. Crowds of peasants surround the little railway station praying for Tolstoy’s recovery. ) A SLIGHT IMPROVEMENT. ASTAPOVO* Nov. 19. Received Nov. 20, 5.5 p.m. Tolstoy has taken a few spoonfulls of gruel, and the catarrh is gradually disappearing. He is conscious, - but sleepy and very weak and artiflcal respiration has had to be applied, ■ ■
HOW THE END CAME. ST. PETERSBURG, November 20. Received 21, 1.2, ; a-m. After Tolstoy’s second cardiac attack, yesterday, morphia, was injected. The Countess was admitted to the bedside this morning, but her husband did not recognise her. A later message states that the first attack lasted twenty minutes. Tolstoy became conscious in the evening and slept, but had a second seizure early in the morning. He again , slept, but did not regain consciousness, and died at six this morning. \ \ 1
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Southland Times, Issue 14579, 21 November 1910, Page 5
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