Leo Tolstoy escaping from paradise

To chase Tolstoy in the expected escape route, the young journalist Konstantin Orlov, the theater critic, son of Nsir Tolstoy, the teacher, and one of the members of the Free People's Movement Vladimir Fyodorovich Orlov, who was portrayed by Tolstoy in his stories "The Dream" and "No Guilty in the World," was sent. This fleeing journalist found Tolstoy in the town of Kozelsk and secretly accompanied him to the Astapovo area, from where he informed his wife Sofia Andreevna and his children by telegram that Lev Nikolayevich was seriously ill and was at the railway crossing station in the house of the station master Y. Y. Ozolin. If it were not for Orlov's initiative, Tolstoy's family would not have known the whereabouts of Lev Nikolayevich, who was on his deathbed, except through what the newspapers would publish later. And is there any need to talk about the extent of the pain that could have afflicted his family? Therefore, and unlike Dr. Makovitsky, who considered the activity of the newspaper "Russkoye Slovo – The Russian Word" to be "fattening," Tolstoy's eldest daughter Tatyana Lavovna Sokhotina, according to her memoirs, "until death," was grateful to journalist Orlov.