European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 14, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Daily Magazine Mph a Hii Bow he huh my my my Nhi f94, remembers photo of Alexandra Tolstoy and her famed writer father Leo was taken in 1895 on their estate 130 Miles from Moscow. By Randall v. Berlage United press International be Hundred and fifty years after the i birth of writer and philosopher Leo Tolstoy his message still is alive through his Daugh Ter. Although ailing in her 94th year Alexandra Tolstoy still presides Over the Tolstoy foundation an organization that provides shelter and assistance to rus Sian foundation was begun by Alexandra Tolstoy in 1939, 10 years after she fled the soviet Union and the totalitarian regime of Joseph Stalin. Soviet Russia has enslaved the russian people has done a lot of harm to the russian people. They the United states must protest and not make friends she said of detente. The american people must protest the communist Mark the anniversary of count Leo Tolstoy s birth sept. 9, 1828, celebrations were held around the world and his Only living progeny devoted daughter Alexandra looked Forward to the bed Ridden and plagued by heart disease Alexandra Tolstoy called Sasha by her father said in an interview at her Spring Valley ., Home that the great Man would be so disappointed in the world of today. The world has gone absolutely crooked. They Don t live for each other they Don t live for the Good of people they Don t live for religion they have for Gotton god and he Tolstoy would be so disappointed in the world of she was interviewed in English by Steve North news director of Werc a Nanuet ., radio station. Her statements Here Are from that interview. Life for her was filled with disappointments. She acted As her father s Secretary and protector shielding him in his later years from the tyrannical delirium of her Mother. She helped him escape the family estate Only to watch him die of pneumonia 10 Days later j in a tiny Railroad station. I was there. I saw when my Mother had paranoia and she tortured him. She did t know what she was Alexandra fled her fatherland in 1929 when the oppression became too much to endure. Leaving All her possessions behind she travelled to the far East landed in san Francisco and made her Way to Chica go where she was befriended by Jane Addams at Hull House. After several years on farms in Pennsylvania and Connecticut Alexandra arrived at new York s Rockland county where she made her Home and established the foundation in the name of her father perhaps Russia s greatest sept. 9, 1828, into wealth and nobility Leo Tolstoy grew from a Young Man without direction into a crusader for social Justice and an influential religious thinker. War and peace his novel of Napoleon s 1812 attempt to conquer Russia offered a panoramic View of armed conflict through the lives of two russian families. Anna Karenina delved into the misery of an unfaithful ambitious woman. But it was years after these two works that Tolstoy the philosopher began to emerge. After a bout with depression and the death of his 13th and last child the 47-year-old Leo Tolstoy said he heard the voice of god in the still hours of a morning in 1875. Tolstoy spent his remaining 35 years developing his doctrine of nonviolence which later influenced such peacemakers As Gandhi and or. Martin Luther King or. A Young Man came to see him once his daughter re called and he said he was an atheist and he said some thing about my father s beliefs. Which was Tolstoy told him you d better go i have nothing to talk to you Leo Tolstoy s Devotion to god can be heard in the words of his is going crooked part of youth not All. They should come Back to religion and believe in god and know that god is willing to help when Christ is coming again maybe it will change the the numerous examples of Leo Tolstoy s Devo Tion to god and nonviolence after Czar Alexander ii was killed in 1881 by a terrorist bomb on a Moscow Street Tol Stoy wrote to the new Czar Alexander Iii urging clemency for the six revolutionaries charged with the crime. The Czar and his advisers rejected the plea. Tolstoy was not in the Good graces of the Moscow government and the russian orthodox Church. In 1871, count Tolstoy donned the garb of a Farmer and Laboured in the drought stricken regions of Central Russia charging the government had shut its eyes to the starving peasants. After resurrection a denunciation of the govern up 2 the ailing but mentally Alert Alexandra currently resides in Spring Valley Thursday september 14, 1978 ment and the Church for feeding off the suffering of the masses Tolstoy was excommunicated by the Church and was dubbed the second Czar by Many of the people he championed. In his later years Tolstoy s relations with his wife Sonya became increasingly strained. She did not embrace most of his views and became More and More tyrannical. Life in the Tolstoy household became unbearable and toward the Dawn of oct. 28, 1910, Tolstoy now 82, made his decision to leave his wife. He would be dead in 10 Days. Aided by Sasha and a family doctor he made his Way to a tiny railway station in As Tapopo Russia where he was forced to bed with a 104-degree fever. As family members and dozens of reporters from around the world gathered life slowly slipped from the author s frail body. Did Alexandra realize the intense focus of the world press As she cared for her father in the Little station i knew it but i never thought about it because i was so occupied with my father s sickness that All the world seemed inane and uninteresting. And when he was dying he Only said two words three in English i love never finished. He wanted to finish the sentence but it was his last words. He did t have time he it was 6 a.m., nov. 7. The government and the Church decreed no demonstrations no religious services for this Man. But the train that brought Tolstoy Back to his estate was met at each station by throngs who paid their last re of her Mother later Alexandra said my Mother died in my . I said Mother i know you were sick she said i know i tortured your father. Will you Ever forgive me and we kissed and made friends before she died. And i was so Happy about on his 150th birthday Sasha remembers Tolstoy the Man. What legend i never saw him otherwise than As my thoughts about him never changed that he was a great Man that he wanted Only Good for the people that he preached goodness love and god everything a Man lives in the mind of Leo Tolstoy a Man lived by a differ ent code than a Tolstoy says her father would not approve of the women s liberation movement. He would be very much against it because he thought that was not the woman s Job. He thought the woman s Job was with the family the children and not politics. He did t like that the emancipation of a fiercely Independent woman and a tireless worker Alexandra Tolstoy never married and she has been very much involved in politics. Would her father have disapproved i never did any thing against my father she answers. She is under no false impression about her failing health. She has suffered a major heart attack and her physician has told members of the foundation that death could come at any says she has Learned How to suffer and not to complain during her year Long illness. I am not sad about myself because. The illness has prepared me to go to another world. I m not afraid. The Only thing is i m sorry to part with those whom i the stars and stripes Page 13
