{ 6}. Alexander Evstafevich Bers, born 18 February, 1807, died 6 September, 1871. See _Peterburgskii Necropol_, Vol. I, page 204; also V. Lukomskii and S. Troinizkii, page 14.
{ 7}. In the Tula Province, twenty-five versts from Yasnaya Polyana.
{ 8}. A. M. Islenev, born 16 July, 1794, died 23 April, 1882. Leo Tolstoy, who knew him well, described him as the father in _Childhood Boyhood and Youth_. See P. Sergeenko, _From the Life of L. N. Tolstoy_ and _How Count L. N. Tolstoy Lives and Works_, Moscow, 1898, page 40.
{ 9}. The well-known Vladimir Alexandrovich Islavin, State Councillor, born 29 November, 1818, died 27 May, 1895, author of the _The Samoyeds, their Domestic and Social Life_, Petersburg, 1847, which at the time was much discussed in newspapers and magazines. See V. I. Maezkov's _Systematic Catalogue of Russian Books_, A. F. Basunov, Petersburg, 1869, page 404.
{ 10}. There were five sons and three daughters, _The Book of Genealogies_, Vol. I, pages 122 and { 123}. The best known of these, besides Sophie Andreevna, were: Tatyana Andreevna (by marriage Kuzminskii) born 24 October 1846, the author of _My Reminiscences of Countess Marie Nikolaevna Tolstoy_, Petersburg, 1914; Stepan Andreevich Bers, born 21 July 1855, author of _Reminiscences of L. N. Tolstoy_, Smolensk, 1894; Peter Andreevich Bers, born 26 August 1849, died 19 May 1910, the editor of _Detskyii Otdikh_ (1881-1882), and co-editor with L. D. Obolenskii of the collection of _Stories for Children by I. S. Turgenev and L. N. Tolstoy_, 1883 and 1886; Vacheslav Andreevich Bers, born 3 May 1861, died 19 May, 1907, an engineer who was killed for no obvious reason by workmen during the revolutionary days in Petersburg. Leo N. Tolstoy was very fond of him. See P. Biryukov, _How L. N. T. Composed the Popular Calendar_, { 1911}.
{ 11}. A. Y. Davidov, 1823-1885, professor of mathematics in the University of Moscow, author of popular text-books on algebra and geometry.
{ 12}. N. A. Sergievskii, 1827-1892, a writer on theology, author of many scholarly theological books, founder and editor of _The Orthodox Review_, professor of theology in the University of Moscow.
{ 13}. In the Natasha of _War and Peace_ there are many characteristics of S. A. T. and of her sister, Tatyana Andreevna Kuzminskii. According to S. A. T., Leo Nikolaevich made the following remark about his heroine: "I took Tanya, ground her up with Sonya, and there came out Natasha." See P. Biryukov, _Biography of L._ N. T., Vol. II, page 32.