What to Do? Thoughts Evoked by the Census of Moscow

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, New Age, History, Fiction & Literature
Cover of the book What to Do? Thoughts Evoked by the Census of Moscow by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Library of Alexandria
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Author: Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy ISBN: 9781465510334
Publisher: Library of Alexandria Publication: March 8, 2015
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
ISBN: 9781465510334
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Publication: March 8, 2015
Imprint:
Language: English
I had lived all my life out of town. When, in 1881, I went to live in Moscow, the poverty of the town greatly surprised me. I am familiar with poverty in the country; but city poverty was new and incomprehensible to me. In Moscow it was impossible to pass along the street without encountering beggars, and especially beggars who are unlike those in the country. These beggars do not go about with their pouches in the name of Christ, as country beggars are accustomed to do, but these beggars are without the pouch and the name of Christ. The Moscow beggars carry no pouches, and do not ask for alms. Generally, when they meet or pass you, they merely try to catch your eye; and, according to your look, they beg or refrain from it. I know one such beggar who belongs to the gentry.
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I had lived all my life out of town. When, in 1881, I went to live in Moscow, the poverty of the town greatly surprised me. I am familiar with poverty in the country; but city poverty was new and incomprehensible to me. In Moscow it was impossible to pass along the street without encountering beggars, and especially beggars who are unlike those in the country. These beggars do not go about with their pouches in the name of Christ, as country beggars are accustomed to do, but these beggars are without the pouch and the name of Christ. The Moscow beggars carry no pouches, and do not ask for alms. Generally, when they meet or pass you, they merely try to catch your eye; and, according to your look, they beg or refrain from it. I know one such beggar who belongs to the gentry.

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