In April and May there was famine in several districts of Tula, and Tolstoi occupied himself energetically for some time to aid the famine-stricken. He established soup-kitchens, collected money, etc.
In May of that year, the Russkia Viedomosti was suppressed for collecting funds in behalf of the Dukhobors.
In July, Tolstoi decided to finish his novel, Resurrection, "so that it could be published for the benefit of the Dukhobors."
In October, the Dukhobor, V. N. Pozdniakov, visited Tolstoi, coming secretly from his exile in Yakutsk to the Caucasus to see his co-religionists before their emigration to America.
In this same month the peasant, T. M. Bondarev, died, who had lived many years in exile in Siberia, for whose book on The Labor for Bread Tolstoi wrote a preface, and with whom he corresponded. Tolstoi only learned of his death in December.
In 1899 there were almost no external events.
In November of that year, Tolstoi's eldest daughter, Tatiana Lvovna, was married to N. S. Sukhotin.
II
THE PLACES THAT TOLSTOI LIVED IN AND VISITED
Between 1896-1899 Tolstoi lived principally in Yasnaya Polyana. There he generally not only spent most of the summer, but often all of autumn and sometimes even up to January. In Moscow,
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