Identifier: inlandoftolstoie00stad (find matches)
Title: In the land of Tolstoi; experiences of famine and misrule in Russia
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Stadling, Jonas Jonsson, 1847-1935 Reason, Will, joint author
Subjects: Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910
Publisher: New York, T. Whittaker
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ir prayers. The dinner, consisting of black rye bread andpea soup, tasted very good. When the Countess had arrangedfor the opening of an eating-room for little children we.started to return home. * What is your impression from joiiv first village visit ? iisked the Countess. Terrible, was all I could say. ^Are j^ou not afraid of•catching small-pox and typhus ? Afraid ! It is immoral to be afraid. Are you afraid? shereplied. • No, I have never been afraid of infection while visitingthe poor, I said. It is terrible to see such hopeless misery.It makes me sick only to think of it. And is it not shameful for us to allow ourselves so muchluxury while our brothers and sisters are perishing from wantiiiid nameless misery ? she added. But you have sacrificed all the comforts and luxuries ofyour rank and position, and stepped down to the poor to helpthem, I rejoined. Yes, she said, but look at our warm clothes and allother comforts, which are unknown to our suffering brothersiiiid sisters.
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E,ELiEP Work in Ejasan. 55 But what good would it do to tliem if we should dress in•rags and live on the edge of starvation ? What right have we/ she retorted, to live better thanthey ? I made no reply, but glanced wonderingly into the eyes ofthis remarkable girl, and saw there a large tear trembling ;something seemed to press on my heart and threaten to chokeme. ■ But how is it possible that the authorities permit sucha terrible state of things ? I dont know, was the short and significant answer. In the evening the Count seemed quite downcast. \ feelreally ashamed of this work, he said. ^^We dont knowwhat real help there is in it. We are prolonging theexistence of a number of the starving peasants for some time,but their misery will go on all the same ! You also help them spiritually, I said. You are doinga good work. I dont preach, he said. I am so bad myself that I<5annot preach to others. And we do not know what is goodand what is not; when we think we do something very goo

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