Autobiography of Countess Tolstoy

part in the good work. I bought trucks of corn, beans, onions, cabbage,

everything needed for the feeding centres where the famine-stricken poor from the villages were fed. To pay for this I received money which was sent to me in considerable sums. From the material sent to me by textile manufacturers I had under-clothing made by poor women for small wages, and I sent it to the plac...