Aleksandrovich, Grand Duke Sergei, 286 Aleksin, 123
Alexander I, Tsar, 13, 14, 15, 259,
281,316,344 Alexander II, Tsar, 130, 233, 261,
264; assassination of, 85, 265 Alexander III, Tsar, 90, 130, 153-4,
160, 164, 265, 268-9 Alexandra Fyodorovna, Empress.
190, 261, 269 Alexandrinsky Theatre, 151-2, 151; premiere of The Bear, 153; staging of Ivanov, 151, 152, 154; staging of The Seagull, 150, 154, 155-6, 158, 206 Altschuller, Isaak, 310 Alupka, 259-60 Amur, 173—4, 175 Andreyeva, Maria, 311 Anna on the Neck', 32 Anonymous Story, An', 235 Antokolsky, 12 Antony, St, xxxii
Apraksin, Count, 12 Ariadna', 228 Arseny, 286
Artemenko, Grigory, 115 At Home', 235-6 Attack of Nerves, An', 84 Aurelius, Marcus, 342 Autka (Yalta), 337; Chekhov's house see "White Dacha; St Theodore Tyron Church, 349 Azov, Sea of, 7, 8, 10, 16, 19
Babakin, Ivan (Vanya), 71, 103 Babkino, 101-3, 109-10, 111, 268 Bacillus botulinus, 333 Badenweiler, 329-34; bust of Chekhov, 350-1; Chekhov museum, 350, 351-2; Chekhov's last days spent at, 330-5 Baikal, Lake, 172-3 Bakhchiserai (Crimea), 272, 281 Baku, 118 Balaklava, 258
Bandakov, Father Vasily, 30-1 Barantsevich, 116 Batumi, 118
Bear, The, 92, 351; premiere of at the Alexandrinsky Theatre, 153 Beau-Rivage Hotel (Nice), 240-1 Begichev, Vladimir, 110 Belle Helene, La, 232-3 Bernhardt, Sarah, 64, 248
Biarritz, 232
Bilibin, Ivan, 143
'Bishop, The', 253, 324-5, 326-8
Black Forest, 330
'Black Monk, The', 210-11, 256
Black Sea, 255-6
Blagoveshchensk, 175
Blore, Edward, 259
Blyuvshtein, Sofya, 179
Bogimovo, 124-6, 197
Bolshoi Theatre (Moscow), 90
'Boring Stojry, A', 92 4
Botkin, Sergei, 264
Bowra, Maurice, 299-300
'Boys', 165
Braz, Iosif, 227, 252
Britain: attack on Taganrog during
Crimean War, 15-21 Bromide (dog), 211, 212, 229 Bunin, 271 'Burbot, The', 105 Buryats, 181-2
Bylim-Kolosovsky, Evgeni, 124
Carruthers, J. P., 19 Cathedral Church of the
Assumption (Taganrog), 38 Cathedral of St Alexander Nevsky
(Yalta), 270 Catherine the Great, 2, 12, 13, 35,
124, 169, 255, 258, 273, 281 censorship, 85-6, 90, 131, 162 census (1897), 179, 215 Ceylon, 182 'Chameleon, The', 34 Chekhov, Anton Early Years: baptism, 38,39; birth and birthplace, 23—4, 23; childhood and upbringing in Taganrog, 24- 7, 29-30, 33, 49; influences, 30-1; pranks and practical jokes played in childhood, 29-30; schooling, 2-4, 5, 25, 28, 33, 39, 41; sings
in church choirs, 4- 5, 14, 29, 89; summer holidays spent in the steppe whilst parents living in Moscow, 47-9; works at father's grocery shop, 28, 29 Health: attempt at hiding
seriousness of condition from family, 243-4, 320-1, 322, 333; breathlessness, 308, 320; coughing up blood, 74, 112, 135, 142, 243-4, 277, 320; deterioration in, 320, 322, 330; haemorrhoids, 266; lung haemorrhage, 69, 80, 109, 158, 207, 221, 230, 231; tuberculosis, 49, 69, 74, 80, 150, 163, 230-1 Medical Career, 75-82; active supporter of zemstvo medicine, 78, 217; activities, 80-1; attendance at post-mortem, 81; campa'gn to fight cholera epidemics, 79, 215, 217-18; and famine relief effort, 79; graduation with doctor's certificate, 41, 76; practice in Moscow, 75-6, 81; studies at Moscow University, 7, 57, 64, 76; treatment of peasants, 78, 215-16; works as locum in Zvenigorod, 101; and writing career, 75- 6, 82 Personal Life: assists in national census (1897), 179, 215; building of local schools, 75, 215, 219, 229, 349; character, xxx-xxxi, xxxii, 69; death and aftermath, 331, 335-9; and death of brother Nikolai, 120-1, 122, 123, 257; and death of father, 22, 210, 275; denting of f?4h in Russia after Sakhalin visit, 183; dislike of attention, 338; and dogs, 211-13, 229, 245, 309-10; enjoys music, 64-5; environmental philosophy, 108; ethical code, 84-5, 163, 215; and fishing, 11, 60, 99, 102-7, 113-14, 197, 225, 268,304; friendship with Levitan, 65-6, 227, 268; funeral procession, 338; Gurzuf cottage and garden, 313-14, 317, 319; importance of freedom and love of outdoors, 49, 114; living in Moscow with family, 57-8, 60-1, 71-2, 82-3, 293; living in Nice see Nice; liv: лg in Yalta see Yalta; love of cherry blossoms, 193-6; marriage to Olga Knipper, 301-2, 319, 322, 323-4, 326; and Melikhovo see Melikhovo; memorial service, 336; merchant background, 41; obituary, 337; parental background, 35-6; passion for croquet, 222-3; photograph of, 294; portrait of, 252; provides for family as chief breadwinner, 83; reclusive tendency, xxxi, xxxii; relationship with father, 209, 275; relationship with Lidia Mizinova, 227-8; relationship with mother, 326-7; relationship with Olga Knipper, 229, 252; and religion, 33-4; restlessness felt, 44, 162; shrines/museums to, 350-2; and trees/tree-planting, 22-3, 75, 316, 318; view of marriage, 325; view of wolf- baiting, 108; will, 348; and women, 84-5 Travels and Places Visited: Crimea, 118; enthusiasm for, 164-5; last weeks spent in Badenweiler, 329-35; New
Jerusalem Monastery, 99-101; Sakhalin see Sakhalin; Siberia (1890), xxix, 93, 123, 159, 161, 162, 165, 167-77, 189; south of France and Nice (1897), 232-9; stays at Stanislavksy's dacha at Lyubimovka, 303-4; steppe region, 42-3, 46-7; summer months spent at Bogimovo estate, 124-6, 197; summer months spent at Sumy dacha, 112-16, 119-20; summer months spent in dacha at Babkino, 101-3, 109-10, 111; wanting to go to Africa, 249, 253-4; Western Europe, 123, 186-91
Writing Career: attitude to, 69, 73; awarded Pushkin Prize by Academy of Sciences, 92, 147; The Bear, 92, 153, 351; and censorship, 131, 220; The Cherry Orchard see Cherry Orchard, The; collected works published in The Meadow, 292; and comic journals, 61; connection with fishing in stories, 104-6; contract signed with Marx over collected works, 288-90, 338; contributions to The Alarm Clock, 58-9, 132; contributions to The Dragonfly, 131-2; contributions to Fragments, 69, 133-4, 138,144,225; contributions to New Times, 71, 140, 141-2, 144, 168; contributions to The Northern Messenger, 146, 147; contributions to The Petersburg Newspaper, 71, 74, 110, 133, 140, 144, 171; contributions to The Russian Gazette, 235, 295;
Chekhov, Anton - Continued contributions to Russian Thought, 295; contributions to The Spectator, 63-4, 65; criticism of in Russian Thought and letter sent in reply, 93-5; earnings from, 69; elected to belles- lettres section of Academy of Sciences, 312; failure of The Wood Demon, 92-3, 154; finds new ded:cation to> 74;4G/oow> People, 86; growth in popularity and fame, 92, 147, 154; In the Twilight, 86, 92, 115, 144; inspiration of Moscow countryside to, 98, 110; The Island of Sakhalin, 176, 177, 182-3; Ivanov see Ivanov; letter-writing, 56, 225, 238; and medical career, 75-6, 82; Motley Tales, 73, 138, 142, 144, 147, 148; Platonov, 89; praise from Grigorovich and wanting him to take writing more seriously, 72-3, 111; The Proposal, 153; pseudonyms, 61, 62, 134, 141; reluctance to align himself with any particular group, 148-9; reviews and critical opinion, 64, 147-8, 152; satire in comic stones, 34; The Seagull see Seagull, The; stories 69-70 see also -ndividual titles; stories published in The Meadow, 291-2; Tales of Melpomene, 70, 134, 135; Three Sisters see Three Sisters; Uncle Vanya see Uncle Vanya; view of literary journals, 146-7; The Wedding, 3-4