about the throat, and two toads, one to be worn on the bosom and
the other on the bustle.

LYOFF TOLSTOY, SENIOR.



SERGEI NIKOLaYEVITCH TOLSTOY

I CAN remember my Uncle Seryozha (Sergei) from my
earliest childhood. He lived at Pirogovo, twenty miles from
Yasnaya, and visited us often.

As a young man he was very handsome. He had the same features
as my father, but he was slenderer and more aristocratic-looking.
He had the same oval face, the same nose, the same intelligent gray
eyes, and the same thick, overhanging eyebrows. The only
difference between his face and my father's was defined by the fact
that in those distant days, when my father cared for his personal
appearance, he was always worrying about his ugliness, while Uncle
Seryozha was considered, and really was, a very handsome
man.

This is what my father says about Uncle Seryozha in his
fragmentary reminiscences:

"I and Nitenka [11] were chums, Nikolenka I
revered, but Seryozha I admired enthusiastically and
imitated; I loved him and wished to be he.