Chekhov, Alexander (brother), 3, 24, 38, 46, 47, 61, 120, 143,
212; birth, 19; Chekhov's letters to, 89-90; childhood, 32; literary career, 73; at Moscow University, 55; moves back to Taganrog from Moscow, 64; moves to St Petersburg, 149-50; visits to Melikhovo, 203; writes for New Times, 150 Chekhov, Alexei (cousin), 29 Chekhov Bench, 262-3, 263 'Chekhov Cottage', 341, 345 Chekhov, Georgi (cousin), 5, 6 Chekhov, Ivan (brother), 25, 41, 55,
62, 98, 114, 202-3,301 Chekhov, Misha (Mikhail) (brother), 25, 62, 98-9, 102, 112, 116, 121, 197, 202, 204 Chekhov, Mitrofan (uncle), 17, 24,
35, 36; 68, 72-3 Cheichov, Nikola' [brother), 2, 3, 24, 39, 61, 67, 68; alcoholism, 65; Chekhov's letters to, 73-4; death, 81, 92, 120-2, 257; funeral, 121-2; illustrate lg of Chekhov's early stories, 67; lifestyle, 73; musical abilities, 65; as a painter, 55, 62; tuberculosis, 74, 120, 163 Chekhov, Pavel Egorovich (father), 15, 17, 19, 24, 27, 62, 83, 327-8; awarded silver rredal of St Stanislav, 32; background, 35; death, 22, 194, 210, 229, 275, 317; diary and literary style, 205-9; education, 39-40; employment in Moscow, 60; goes bankrupt, 33, 40; grocery business, 28-9, 32, 37; marnage, 16; at Melikhovo, 202, 204-6; money problems and dependence on Chekhov, 56; moves to Moscow with family, 40-1, 55; obsession with medals, 32; religious devotion of, 24, 38; and sons' education, 2, 39 Chekhov Street, 340 Chekhova, Evgenia Yakovlevna (mother), 14, 16, 17, 19, 21, 37; background, 35-6; Chekhov's letters to, 333; Chekhov's love of, 326; death, 346; frailty of, 55; leaves Melikhovo, 229; at Melikhovo, 204; moves to Yalta to live with Chekhov, 282, 284 Chekhova, Masha (Maria) (sister), 25, 29, 62, 71, 84, 126, 202, 245; Chekhov's correspondence with, 249-50, 250-1, 278, 285; and Chekhov's house И Yalta, 276; death, 346; feelings over Chekhov's marriage, 301; and Melikhovo, 204, 249-50; moves permanently to Yalta after Chekhov's death, 346; and preservation of the White Dacha, 346; visits to Yalta, 284 Cherry Orchard, The, 33, 41, 42, 53, 193, 194, 195, 199,201, 215, 283, 304, 329; premiere, 307; rehearsals, 305-7; setting, 97
Chertkov, Andrei, 252 Chertkov, Count, 35 Chest of Drawers, 82-3, 340 Chinese, 175
cholera epidemic (1892-93), 79,
215,216,217-18 Church of the Exaltaf'on of the
Cross (Moscow), 301, 301, 350 Church of St John the Warrior
(Moscow), 70, 71 Church of Saint Nicholas and
Alexandra (Nice), 190-1, 233 Churchill, Clementine, 349 Comedie Frangaise, 64 comic journals, 58, 61, 85, 86, 107 'Complaints Book, The', 352 Cossacks, 49
Cremni ('the Cliffs'), 7 Crimea, 256; absorbed into Russian empire (1772), 273; becomes part of independent Ukraine after collapse of Soviet Union, 347; imperial family residences in, 261-2, 263-4, 269; see also Yalta
Cnmean Courier, 321-2, 337 Crimean Tatars see Tatars Crimean War, 15-21, 258, 261 croquet, 222-3
dachas, 96-8, 99 Darwin, Charles, 167 'Daughter of Albion, The', 105 Davydov, Vladimir, 91, 152, 153 Don, River, 9 Doroshevich, Vlas, 338 Dostoevsky, 68, 116, 130, 137, 189 Dragonfly, The, 61, 131-2 'Drama at a Shooting Party', 70, 196
Dreyfus case, 26, 144, 234 Drozdova, Maria, 206, 302 'Duel, The', 126
Dumas, Alexandre: La Dame aux
camelias, 248 Duse, Eleonora, 149, 248
Easter, 189-90
Eichler, Dmitry von, 335, 336 • Elizaveta, Tsarina (wife of
Alexander I) 14, 15 Elizabeth, Empress, 68 Erisman, EE, 78 Erofeev, Viktor, 352 'Evil Business, An', 109 Ewald, Dr, 330
famine (1891-92), 79, 322 'Fat and Thin', 334 feldshers, 216 Fenichka, Aunt, 30, 57
Feodosy, Father, 29
Filaret, Father, 29
'Fish Love', 225-7
Florence, 187
Florensky, Father Pavel, 89
'Fortune', 45-6, 50, 53, 150
Fragments, 58, 69, 136-7, 140,
154, 157; contributions to by Chekhov, 69, 133-4, 138,
225
Friedrich I, Grand Duke, 351
Genoa, 191
Glinka: A Life for the Tsar, 248 Gloomy People, 86 Gogol, 34, 50, 190 gold, 174, 175 Golden Horde, 10 Goltsev, Viktor, 295, 340 Goncharov: The Frigate Pallada, 165 'Gooseberries', 200 Gorbachev, Mikhail, 347 Gorky, Maxim, 67, 308, 313 Grand Moscow Hotel, 232, 294 Grand Oriental Hotel (Colombo), 350
'Grasshopper, The', 227, 268 Greece/Greeks, ancient, 6-8 Greek Monastery (Taganrog), 4-5, 14
Grigorovich, Dmitry, 52, 72, 142; letter of praise to Chekhov, 73, 74, 111 Gromov, Pavel, 61 Gurzuf, 313-14, 317, 319, 348 'Gusev', 184-5
'He Understood', 107 'Heartache', 138-9 Hermitage restaurant (Moscow),
68,230, 231 Herodotus, 45; History of the
Persian Wars, 7 'House with the Mezzanine, The',
124-5, 210 Hudson, Lieutenant, 20 Hunt, William, 259, 261 hunting: Sabaneev's survey on, 108 'Huntsman, The', 110-11
Imoeral Theatres, 92, 152, 154 Imperial Theatres D ectorate, 90, 152
'In the Cart', 60, 219, 224
'In Moscow on Truba', 58-60
'In the Ravine', 27, 286
In the Twilight, 86, 92, 115, 144
Iollos, Grigory, 336
'Ionych', 292
lordanov, Pavel, 52, 247
Irakly, Father, 182
Irkutsk, 171, 172, 172
Island of Sakhalin, The, 165, 176,
177, 182-3 Italy, 187-8 Ivan III, 10 Ivan IV, Tsar, 10 Ivanenko, Alexander, 199, 206 Ivanov, 88-90, 91; performances of and reaction (Moscow), 91-2; staging of at Alexandi lsky Theatre (St Petersburg) and reviews, 151, 152, 154 Ivanovna, Anna, 64
Japan, 160, 178, 183-4 Journal of the Imperial Hunting Society, 107
Kalyagin, Alexander, 349 Karaim Jews, 274 Kashtanka (dog), 309, 310 Ken nan, George, 169; Siben i and
the Exile System, 167 Kerner, Justinus, 333 Kertch, 16
Khotya- itseva, Alexandra, 245 Kiselyov, Alexei, 101, 109
Knipper, Olga, 84, 85, 128, 158, 228-9,306,314, 348; background, 228; at Badenweiler, 334; Chekhov's letters to, 252, 283, 307, 310, 326; and death of Chekhov, 335; marriage to Chekhov, 301-2, 319,322, 323^4, 326; peritonitis, 303; pet dog, 305-6; relationship with Chekhov, 229, 252, 296; theatre career, 229, 302; and Three Sisters, 319-20; visit to Yalta, 280-1 Kohl, Johann, 260 Komissarzhevkaya, Vera, 156, 158 Konophova, Evgenia, 343, 345 Konstantin, Grand Duke, 261 Korf, Baron Andrei, 177 Korolenko, 147 Korotnev, Professor, 242 Korsh, Fyodor, 90-1, 151 Korsh Theatre, 90, 91, 92, 151 Kovalevsky, Maxim, 238, 242, 247,
249,253 Kravtsov, Pyotr, 41 Kublai Khan, 10 Kuchma, Leonid, 347 Kuchuk-koy: Chekhov's dacha at,
284,313 Kumskaya, Agafya, 44-5 kurgans, 43, 44-5 Kurkin, Pyotr, 298, 329
'Lady with the Little Dog, The', 115, 246-7, 262, 263, 280-1, 286, 295-6 Lavrov, Vukol, 295 'Lawyer's Novel, A', 134 Leikin, Nikolai, 58, 69, 133, 140, 196-7; background, 138; Chekhov's letters to, 81, 100, 101, 101-2, 103, 171, 194; editor of Fragments, 133; gift of dogs to Chekhov, 211, 213;
invitations to Chekhov to visit St Petersburg, 134-5; prolific writer, 133; relationship with Chekhov, 13/-8 Lenin, Vladimir, 241, 343 Leskov, 343
Levitan, Isaak, xxxii, 92, 98, 102, 108, 109, 123-4, 167, 191: death, 263; 'Qu_et Monastery', 66; relationship w.th Chekhov, 65-6, 227, 268; trip to Crimea, 256-7; visits to Melikhovo, 227, 268; and Yalta, 263, 287 Levkeyeva, Elizaveta, 155, 157 Lintvaryov family, 112, 119 Lintvaryov, Georgy, 116 Lintvaryov, Pavel, 115, 116 Lintvaryova, Alexandra, 115 Lintvaryova, Elena, 115-16 Lintvaryova, Natalya, 116 Lintvaryova, Dr Zinaida, 30, 115 Livadia (Crimea), 263-4, 265, 269,