. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. itiessuddenly excommunicated him in March of this year. I was toldby Russians that the reason was the issue of flysheets at a kopeckapiece, containing his bitterest denunciations of the OrthodoxChurch, and the enormous circulation these were having amongthe people. In accordance with what he had said to meabout secular prosecution, he remarked to a recent visitor, Theday of my excommunication was the happiest of my this did not prevent him from striking back at once,
. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. itiessuddenly excommunicated him in March of this year. I was toldby Russians that the reason was the issue of flysheets at a kopeckapiece, containing his bitterest denunciations of the OrthodoxChurch, and the enormous circulation these were having amongthe people. In accordance with what he had said to meabout secular prosecution, he remarked to a recent visitor, Theday of my excommunication was the happiest of my this did not prevent him from striking back at once, in a LEO, THE SON OF NICHOLAS 57 long letter addressed to the Woly Synod. The latters decree,he declared, is illegal or intentionally ambiguous ; it is arbitrary,unjustifiable, and mendacious. Moreover, it contains a calumnyand constitutes an incitement to wicked sentiments and acts. I have not repudiated the Church, he added, because I hadrevolted against the Lord. I repudiated it, on the contrary,because I wanted to serve God with all the force of my admits that ho denies the whole creed of Christianity. VASNAYA POLYANA, COUNT TOLSTOYS HOME (BACK) considered as theology—the incarnation of Jesus Christ, theTrinity, the Immaculate Conception, &c,, but he does not deny God the spirit, a unique God of love, the principle of all believes not in the Christian Heaven and Hell, but in theimmortality of the soul and mans moral responsibility, and hewrites long and eloquently of the God of love, whose will is thatwe should all live according to the law of love as the conditionof bringing real brotherhood into a world torn by strife. Itmay be, he says in conclusion, that my beliefs offend, afflict,or scandalise some persons ; it may be that they disturb or dis-please ; but it is not in my power to change these beliefs any morethan it is possible for me to change my body. I must live and 58 ALL THE RUSSIAS shall be obliged to die—and before long—yet all this inte
Size: 1948px × 1283px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthortolstoyl, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookyear1902
