Anna Konstantinovna Chertkova was a children's writer, social activist, folklore collector, memoirist, and a model of Russian group of painters known as The Itinerants (Peredvizhniki). Her literary pseudonyms are "A. Ch." and "A. Ch-va".
Anna Diterikhs, photograph taken in 1883
Father, 1866
Mother, 1860s
К. A. and O. I. Diterikhs with their children and relatives
The Tolstoyan movement is a social movement based on the philosophical and religious views of Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910). Tolstoy's views were formed by rigorous study of the ministry of Jesus, particularly the Sermon on the Mount.
Vladimir Chertkov (left) with Leo Tolstoy (right)
Tolstoy organising famine relief in Samara, 1891.
Mohandas K. (later Mahatma) Gandhi and other residents of Tolstoy Farm, 1910