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third of those listed owned over 100,000 desiatines, and only 5 owned over 400,000. See A. M. Anfimov, Krupnoe pomeshchich'e khozyaistvo evropeiskoi Rossii . Moscow, 1969, pp. 382-86. 26 court service..position of the third rank. 7 His father. Modest Andreevich Korf (1800-1872), had been created a count in 1872, after having filled such posts as tutor to the sons of Nicholas I, state secretary, member of the State Council, member of the secret committee for the supervision of book publishing, and director of the St. Petersburg public library. 8 Princess Nathalie Lieven (1842-1920), like Korf a very active Radstockist, married into another distinguished Baltic family line with records dating back to the twelfth century. 9 By the 1880's, they had "for three generations been a powerful court family very close to the Romanovs." 10 Princess Lieven's husband was Chief Master of Ceremonies at the court of Alexander II. 11 Count Alexei Pavlovich Bobrinsky (1826-1894) joined Colonel Pashkov and Count Korf in conducting prayer meetings and preaching once Lord Radstock was no longer permitted in Russia after 1878. He had seen military service as a 7 Jones, Journal of Russian Studies , p. 4. Heier refers to Ct. Korf as "Lord Chamberlain at the Tsar's Court." These are probably simply two different wordings of the same position. Or, they may be different titles but both within the third rank of court service. See de Gmeline, pp. 68-69. 8 Entsiklopedicheskii slovar' . St. Petersburg (Brockhaus and Ephron), 1890-1906, XVI, p. 354-55; W. Bruce Lincoln, "The Ministers of Alexander II: A survey of their backgrounds and service careers," Cahiers du Monde Russe et Sovietique . XVII, no. 4 (1976), pp. 468-69 and 475. 9 Entsiklopedicheskii slovar' . XVII, pp. 646-7. 10 D. Lieven, Russia's Rulers , p. 145. 11 S. Lieven, Eine Saat, die reiche Frucht brachte . Basel, 1952. This reference is to a typescript English translation, "A Seed that Brought Forth Much Fruit," held at the Keston Institute, Oxford, p. 26. 27 lieutenant-general and served as aide-de-camp to the Emperor. He was Minister of Communications from 1871 to 1874 and had received the order of St. Anne. 12 Some of the Bobrinsky family wealth was acquired in the sugar refining industry in the 1830's, and they remained one of the major sugar producers later in the century. 13 It was probably Elizaveta Ivanovna Chertkova, a sister- in-law of Colonel Pashkov, who was the Russian aristocratic lady who met Lord Radstock abroad and invited him to Russia, although there are other possible sources of the invitation. Mme. Chertkova's husband was Adjutant-General to the Tsar and her son, V. G. Chertkov, like Pashkov a former Guards officer, became Tolstoy's close friend and follower. 14 For some of these aristocrats, their acceptance of Lord Radstock's message was the culmination of years of spiritual searching. Grief at the loss of two sons promp