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The Last Days of Tolstoy’s People

“Last Days of Tolstoy’s People,” Slate, August 2013

Photograph by Natela Grigalashvili.

 

Last Days of Tolstoy’s People,” Slate, August 23, 2013.

Leo Tolstoy so admired the Doukhobors, a remote pacifist sect in the highlands of Georgia, he tried to shield them from the modern world. Now only 500 of them remain.