title: Twentieth-Century Russian Reader: Revised and Updated Edition (Viking Portable Library)
author:  Clarence Brown 
description: Text: English (translation)<br /> Original Language: Russian
zlib_text: ##  [What To Do?, by Count Lyof N. Tolstoi](text00000.html#filepos0000000150)
  
  Transcribed from the 1887 Tomas Y. Crowell edition by David Price, email
  ccx074@pglaf.org
  
  # WHAT TO DO?  
  THOUGHTS EVOKED BY THE CENSUS  
  OF MOSCOW
  
  by  
  COUNT LYOF N. TOLSTOÏ
  
  _translated from the russian_  
  By ISABEL F. HAPGOOD
  
  NEW YORK  
  THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO.  
  13 Astor Place  
  1887
  
  Copyright , 1887,  
  By THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO.
  
  electrotyped and printed  
  BY RAND AVERY COMPANY,  
  boston .
  
  ## TRANSLATOR’S NOTE.
  
  Books which are prohibited by the Russian Censor are not always inaccessible.
  An enterprising publishing-house in Geneva makes a specialty of supplying the
  natural craving of man for forbidden fruit, under which heading some of Count
  L. N. Tolstoi’s essays belong. These essays circulate in Russia in manuscript;
  and it is from one of these manuscripts, which fell into the hands of the
  Geneva firm, that the first half of the present translation has been made. It
  is thus that the Censor’s omiss