Ilya Tolstoy, Reminiscences of Tolstoy — My Father's Illness in the Crimea
“ AFTER my father had come to the conclusion that it was not only useless to help people with money, but immoral, the part he took in distributing food among the peasants during the famines of 1890, 1891, and 1898 may seem to have shown inconsistency and contradiction of thought. ”
Ilya Tolstoy, Reminiscences of Tolstoy — My Father's Illness in the Crimea
“ The peasants, who had been endowed at the emancipation with a full share of good land, and had enriched themselves since by wage-earnings, were hardly in want at all. It is true that some of the yards were badly stocked; but there was none of that acute degree of want which amounts to famine and which strikes the eye at once. ”
Ilya Tolstoy, Reminiscences of Tolstoy — My Father's Illness in the Crimea
“ There is much about it that is not what it ought to be; there is S. A.'s money [1] and the subscriptions; there is the relation of those who feed and those who are fed. THERE IS SIN WITHOUT END, but I cannot stay at home and write. ”
