Character: Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin

Leo Tolstoy has spoken out strongly against private ownership of land. "The earth is the property of all, and all people have the same right to use it", - he wrote to the reformer 23 Oct 1907. "You consider evil what I consider good for Russia, - confidently said the great writer Stolypin. - I think that the lack of ownership of land from the peasants and creates all of our confusion... you can Not love someone else along with her and not obihazhivat, improve land loaner, along with their land. Emasculating our peasants, destroying it innate sense of ownership leads to poverty. And poverty, for me, the worst of bondage..."