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Rh (by marriage Kuzminskii), born October 24, 1846, the author of My Reminiscences of Countess Marie Nikolaevna Tolstoi, Petersburg, 1914; Stepan Andreevich Bers, born July 21, 1855, author of Reminiscences of L. N. Tolstoi, Smolensk, 1894; Peter Andreevich Bers, born August 26, 1849, died May 19, 1910, the editor of Detskii Otdikh (1881-82), and co-editor with L. D. Obolenskii of the collection of Stories for Children by I. S. Turgenev and L. N. Tolstoi, 1883 and 1886; Vyacheslav Andreevich Bers, born May 3, 1861, died May 19, 1907, an engineer who was killed for no obvious reason by workmen during the revolutionary days in Petersburg. Leo N. Tolstoi was very fond of him. See P. Biryukov, How L. N. Tolstoi composed the Popular Calendar, 1911.

11. Page 25. A. Y. Davidov, 1823-85, professor of mathematics in the University of Moscow, author of popular text-books on algebra and geometry.

12. Page 26. N. A. Sergievskii, 1827-92, a writer on theology, author of many scholarly theological books, founder and editor of The Orthodox Review, professor of theology in the University of Moscow,

13. Page 28. In the Natasha of War and Peace there are many characteristics of S. A. T. and of her sister, Tatyana Andreevna Kuzminskii. According to S. A. T., Leo N. made the following remark about his heroine: "I took Tanya, ground her up with Sonya, and there came out