273^4 Lopasnya, 341
Lyons, Captain Edmund 16, 17, 18, 20
Lyons, Rear-Admiral Edmund, 17, 18,20 Lyubimov, Alexei, 244 Lyubimov, Deacon, 329 Lyubimovka, 303-4
'Malefactor, The', 105 Malkiel, Maria, 287 Maltsev, Father, 336 Maly Theatre (Moscow), 90, 297 Maly Theatre (St Petersburg), 149 'Man in a Case, The', 5, 85 Mandelker-Frieden, Nancy, 78 Marfa, Aunt, 32
Maria Alexandrovna, Empress, 264, 265
Maria Fyodorovna, Dowager Empress, 233
Marino Hotel (Yalta), 279, 280 Martin, John, 19 Marx, Adolf, 338; background, 290-1; contract with Chekhov, 288-90, 338; and The Meadow, 291, 292 Maryushka (cook), 204, 283 Massandra, 265, 269 Matusevich, Leonid, 318-19 Meadow, The, 291, 292 medicine, Russ.an, 76-9 Melikhovo, 193-214, 194, 249-50, 268; accessibility of, 224; attractions to buy.xig for Chekhov, 202; build' ig of annexe, 226, 227; and Chekhov's family, 202-3; description, 198; garden, 210-11; life at, 203-6, 225; managing of, 203; planting of cherry trees, 193-4; purchase of by Chekhov, 42, 197; selling of, 194, 229, 275,317; transformation of into literary shrine and museum, 341; visitors to, 223, 227-8 merchant guilds, 35, 36-7 merchants/merchant class, 33—4, 35, 36, 86-7; centrality of church to life of, 38; change in public perception of, 41-2; Westernization of, 36-7 Messager franco-russe, Le, 234 Mikhail, Bishop of the Crimea, 328 MikhaUovsky Theatre, 151 Milan, 191
Milner, Rev. Thomas, 269 'Misery', 86
Mizinova, Lidia, 84, 85, 123-4,
126, 167, 227-8 Monte Carlo, 189, 238, 249 Morozov, Sawa, 303, 304 Morozov, Yakov, 36 Moscow, 54, 86-7; Chekhov's
affection for, 63, 87, 128, 150, 296, 308, Chekhov's stays/visits, 294, 304-5, 329; growth of and diversity of population, 86-7; iving in with family by Chekhov, 57-8, 60-1, 71-2, 82-3, 293 Moscow Art Theatre, xxix, 42, 67, 92, 128, 131, 229, 278, 296-8, 324; founding of, 296-7; new building, 304, 304; prerr ,ere of The Seagull, 278, 297; premiere of Uncle Vanya, 285, 297, 298; tour of Crimea/Yalta (1900), 275, 297-8,310-11 Moscow News, 347, 349 Moscow University, 41, 68, 76, 79 Motley Tales, 73, 138, 142, 144,
147, 148 Muravyov-Amursky, 175 Mustafa, 271 'My Life', 291-2
Nansen, Fri itjofxxx, 165, 213 Nature and Hunting, 107, 109 Nemirovich-Danchenko, Vladimir, xxix, 84, 158, 229, 241, 285, 296-7
Nevsky Prospekt (St Petersburg), 136
New Athos Monastery, 118 New Jerusalem Monastery, 99-101,
200, 341 New Times, 91, 138. 140-1, 161, 295; contributions to by Chekhov, 71, 140, 141-2, 144, 168; and Dreyfus case, 234 Nice, 189, 190-1, 233-53; Chekhov's residence in the Pens1 on Russe, 239^1, 242, 244, 252; cultural activities in, 247-9; feelings of homesickness whilst staying in, 245, 252; history, 233; life in, 237-9, 242-2, 247-8; Russian population living in, 233; stories written in, 235-7; visitors, 241-2
Nicholas I, Tsar, 21, 176, 259, 261 Nicholas II, Tsar, 86, 141, 164, 233; Grand Tour of, 159-60, 161; visits to the Crimea, 269, 270 Nightingale, Florence, 16 Nikitsky Imperial Botanical
Gardens, 286 Nikolaevsk, 176 Nikolai, Father, 301 Nikon, Patriarch, 99 Northern Messenger, The, 146, 147, 148
Notes of the Fatherland, 130 Novoekaterinskaya (New Catherine Hospital) (Moscow), 79-80, 80
Obolonsky, Nikolai, 120 Oka, River, 123 On the Cart', 236-7 Oreanda (Crimea), 261-2, 349-50 Orlov-Davydov, Count, 212 Osborn, Commander Sherard, 18,
19, 20-1 Ostroumov, Professor Alexei, 80,
109, 207, 305; clinic, 234 Ostrovsky, Alexander, 34, 41 Ottoman Empire, 10
Palkin, Anisim, 137
Palkin restaurant (St Petersburg),
137
Papkov, General Pyotr, 36, 316 Paris, 191 Patti, Adelina, 248 Paulownia tomentosa, 334 Pavlovna, Maria, 346, 348, 349 Pavlovsky, Ivan, 26 'Peasants', 215, 220-1 peasants: inadequacy of medical care for, 216-17; treatment of by Chekhov, 78, 215-16
Pension Russe (Nice), 239^1, 244, 252
Peter the Great, 10-11, 34, 35, 77, 97, 316; statue of in Taganrog, 12-13, 12, 22 Petersburg Newspaper, The, 71, 74, 110, 133, 135, 138, 140, 143, 144,171
Pirogov Congress, Eighth, 298, 299 Pirogov, Dr Nikolai, 76 Pirogov Society, 78 Pirogov Tuberculosis Commission,
299 Platonov, 89 Platov, Count, 46 Pleshcheyev, Alexei, 116, 117, 146 Pobedonostsev, Konstantin, 130;
assassination attempt, 129, 131 Polonsky, 146 Poltava region, 119 Potapenko, Ignaty, 228 Potemkin, Grigory, 258, 273, 281 'Princess, The', 101 prizhivalshchik, 199 Proposal, The, 153 Przhevalsky, Nikolai, xxx, xxxii, 30,
162, 163^1 Psyol, River, 113, 117 Pushkin, Alexander, 189, 312, 313-15; Eugene Onegin, 87-8; Ruslan and Lyudmila, 314, 315, 316, 317, 318; statue of, 67-8 'Pushkin oak', 315-17, 318-19 Pushkin Prize, 92, 147 Putin, President, 347-8 Pyper, Hugh, xxxi
Quinine (dog), 211-12, 213, 229
Rabenek, Lev, 334, 335, 335-6 Rachmar-inov, 260 rasputitsa, 224, 225 'Requiem, The', 141-2, 229 Richelieu, Due de, 314
Rimsky-Korsakov, Admiral Voin, 167
Roginsky, Alexander, 318 Romanov, Grand Duke Konstantin, 312
Romerbad Hotel (Badenweiler), 332 Rossiya Hotel (Yalta), 265, 266 'Rothschild's Violin', 38-9, 216-17 Rozanov, Mordechai, 234 Rubinstein, Anton, 143 Russell, William Howard, 16 Russia: social segregation, 34-5 Russian Gazette, The, 235, 237-8,
295, 332 Russian News, 321 Russian Philharmonic Society, 65 Russian Thought, 182, 221, 329; Chekhov's contributions to, 295; criticism of Chekhov, 93-5 Russo-Japanese War, 183-4, 334-5 Russo-Turkish War (1977-78), 178, 265
Ryabushinsky, Stepan, 67 Rykov, 171
Sabaneev, Alexander, 108 Sabaneev, Leonid, 107-9; Fishes of Russia, 104, 106-7; survey of hunting, 108; tuberculosis and death, 109 'St Peter's Day', 108 St Petersburg, 54, 87, 128-30, 136-7; Chekhov's ambivalent fee'mgs towards, 150, 158; Chekhov's first visit and warmth of reception (1885), 129, 135-7, 138-9; Chekhov's further visits to, 149; Chekhov's second visit (1886), 142-4; Chekhov's social life in, 149-50; popularity of Chekhov in, 147, 152 St Theodore Tyron church (Autka), 349
Sakhalin, xxxii, 82, 93, 159, 160, 161, 166-7, 176-82, 271, 346:
arrival in, 177; Chekhov museum ac Alexandrovsk, 346, Chekhov's book on see Island of Sakhalin; conditions of inhabitants, 177-8, 180-1; conducting of census by Chekhov, 179-80, 181; founding of penal colony, 178; history, 178; Japanese mvasfon, 184; journey to, 167-76; research into by Chekhov before ourney, 167 Sakharov, N.V., 20 Saltykov-Shchedrin, 241 Salviati, Antonio, 261 Samuelson, Semyon, 260 Sarasate, Pablo, 65 Saur's Grave, 45, 46 Savina, Maria, 153, 156 Sawin-Storozhevsky Monastery, 101
Schinkel, Karl Friedrich, 261 Schnap (dog), 305-6, 307, 309,310 Schwoerer, Dr Josef, 332, 333, 335, 351
Scythians, 43, 44-5 Seagull, The, 93, 154-6, 210, 214, 227, 228, 229, 268, 278, 29b; and the censors, 155; premiere of at Moscow Art Theatre, 278, 297; staging of at the Alexandrinsky and failure (1896), 150, 154, 155-7, 158, 206