United Single Tax Leagues of Australia - letter from Leo Tolstoy, 1908

MLMSS 5827

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2/15 September 1908

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Microfilm : MLMSS 5827)

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Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910, was born on his family's estate of Yasnaya Polyana in Tula Province, Russia. He was educated privately and at Kazan University. Following several years of indolence and mild dissipation he joined the army in 1851 serving in the Crimean War. In 1862 he settled at Yasnaya Polyana and combined the duties of a humane and progressive landlord with a literary career. He published: War and Peace in 1868. Increasingly he became interested in religion and developed a personal form of Christianity stripped of mysticism and based on non-resistance to violence. He was opposed to all authority and landownership. In 1895 he renounced all property rights in his own estates and lived as a peasant for the rest of his life.

2/15 September 1908; Signed letter to the Federation of Single Tax Leagues of Australia [sic United Single Tax Leagues of Australia], written from Yasnaya Polyana replying to an address sent on the occasion of his 80th birthday and sympathising with their efforts to abolish the supposed right of property in land. With a signed, undated covering letter from Vladimir Tcherkoff.

Previously located at ML At 70.