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Dushan Makovitsky (Dušan Makovický; <span lang="ru">Д. П. Маковицкий</span>) was the resident physician and diarist at Yasnaya Polyana. The <abbr title="Полное собрание сочинений — the 90-volume Jubilee edition of the complete works">PSS</abbr> commentary to [[The Great Sin]] dates the essay's composition largely from his *Yasnaya Polyana Notes*.[^1] He was also one of the copyists of its manuscripts.[^2]

## What his notes date

- **28 April 1905**: the essay was read aloud to several people that day.[^3]
- **1 July 1905**: the finished article was given to [[Maria Tolstaya]] (Maria Lvovna Obolenskaya) to copy for [[Russkaya Mysl]], with the intention of taking it to the post in person.[^4]
- **11 July 1905**: the proofs arrived.[^5]

The commentary calls the notes for 28 April "unpublished".[^3] Her copy for Russkaya Mysl has not survived, and the commentary uses this entry to explain why the journal text differs from the surviving manuscripts.[^6]

## The doctor in chapter VII

Chapter VII tells of "a doctor of my acquaintance" reading a newspaper aloud to peasants at "a large railway station"; the article is about an "agrarian" congress, and at the end an old man "sighed deeply and crossed himself".[^7] The commentary identifies the doctor as Makovitsky, at Tula station, and says what he read was not an article on the agrarian congress but the author's own *On the Solution of the Land Question According to Henry George's Project*, an extract from [[To the Working People]] printed in the newspaper *Evening Post*, No. 117, 20 April 1905. Its source is the *Yasnaya Polyana Notes*, entry for 25 April 1905.[^8]

## Open questions

- His biography: dates, origin, when he entered the household, and the span and publication history of the *Yasnaya Polyana Notes*.
- Whether other 1905 composition events beyond the three above are datable from his Notes.

## Dive provenance

- [1905-the-great-sin](../works/non-fiction/essays-and-criticism/1905-the-great-sin/index.md) (2026-06-30) — Makovitsky as the commentary's dating source (E20) and as the chapter VII newspaper-reader the commentary identifies (E9). Routed to a page of his own in the entity steer, 2026-08-12; converted to the footnote style 2026-10-02.

[^1]: Title: <span lang="ru">«Яснополянские записки»</span> (PSS 36, commentary, pp. 665–666).

[^2]: <span lang="ru">«переписанных рукой Ю. К. Игумновой, М. А. Шмидт, A. Л. Толстой, Д. П. Маковицкого»</span> (PSS 36, commentary, description of the manuscripts).

[^3]: <span lang="ru">«В части своих неопубликованных записок Д. П. Маковицкий под 28 апреля сообщает, что в этот день Толстой нескольким лицам читал»</span> <span lang="ru">„Великий грех“</span> (PSS 36, commentary). English: ours.

[^4]: <span lang="ru">«Под 1 июля Д. П. Маковицкий сообщает в своих записках, что Толстой дал переписать статью своей дочери Марье Львовне Оболенской и сам хочет свезти ее на почту для отправки в»</span> <span lang="ru">„Русскую мысль“</span> (PSS 36, commentary). English: ours.

[^5]: <span lang="ru">«В своих записках от 11 июля Д. П. Маковицкий сообщает, что в этот день Толстому была доставлена корректура статьи»</span> (PSS 36, commentary). English: ours.

[^6]: <span lang="ru">«как видно из записи Маковицкого, в»</span> <span lang="ru">„Русскую мысль“</span> <span lang="ru">«была послана несохранившаяся рукопись, переписанная рукой М. Л. Оболенской»</span> (PSS 36, commentary).

[^7]: <span lang="ru">«знакомый мне врач»</span>; <span lang="ru">«на большой железнодорожной станции»</span>; <span lang="ru">«глубоко вздохнул и перекрестился»</span> (PSS 36:225–226). English: ours.

[^8]: <span lang="ru">«Речь идет о Д. П. Маковицком, читавшем на станции Туле не статью об аграрном съезде, а статью Толстого»</span>; the title <span lang="ru">„О разрешении земельного вопроса по проекту «Генри Джорджа»“</span>; the newspaper <span lang="ru">«Вечерняя почта»</span>, No. 117; the source <span lang="ru">«Яснополянские записки»</span>, <span lang="ru">«Запись 25 апреля 1905 г.»</span> (PSS 36, commentary to p. 225, l. 36 – p. 226, l. 5).