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From: Sunday Gazette-Mail
Date: 20080629
Author:Perry Mann

Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) at about age 50 experienced a moral conversion that caused him to become a socialist and a pacifist. He liberated the serfs that lived on his vast estate during the time this country was engaged in a civil war, one cause of which was slavery. He contributed a large amount of money to help transfer 12,000 Dukhobors, who were Christian socialists and pacifists, from Russia, which persecuted them, to Saskatchewan in western Canada, which welcomed them. Tolstoy spent his life after his conversion living in a manner he believed to be a way Jesus would have approved.

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