Sedov, Andrei, 341, 343, 344, 345 Selivanov, Gavr.J, 41 Sergy, Bishop, 328 Sevastopol, 16, 20, 255, 256, 258, 311
Seymour, Henry, 43^4 Shakhovskoi, Pnnce Sergei, 200-1 Shalyugin, Gennadi, 347 Shapovalov, Lev, 274 Sharik (dog), 309, 310, 310 Shchukin, Father Sergei, 328
Shekhtel, Franz (Fyodor), 67, 92,
227, 304 Shervinsky, Professor V, 299 Shilo, Mayor Sergei, 341, 343, 344, 345
Shostakovksy, Pyotr, 65 Siberia, 10, 160-1, 189; Chekhov's journey across (1890), xxix, 93, 123, 159, 161, 162, 165, 167-77, 189; exiling criminals to, 169; Nansen's expedition to, 213
Sinani, Isaak, 274, 275 'Sinner from Toledo, The', 65 Skabichevsky, Alexander, 148 Smagins, 117, 120 Sobolevsky, Vasily, 235, 295, 332 Sokolov, S., 220
Sommer Hotel (Badenweiler), 333,
335,350 Sorochintsy, 117 'Sorrow', 86
Soviet Union: collapse of, 347 Spectator, The, 63-4, 65, 132 Sredin, Leonid, 280 Stakenschneider, Andre 261 Stanislavsky, Konstantin, xxix, 193, 229, 285, 305, 315, 351; dacha at Lyubimovka, 303-4; and founding of Moscow Art Theatre, 296-7; merchant background, 42 'Steppe, The', 33, 50-2, 88, 92,
112, 146, 147, 195 steppe, the, xxxi, 42-53; association of wide open space of with love by Chekhov, 49-50; Chekhov's love of, 44, 52; Chekhov's travels (1887), 42-3, 50; in Chekhov's writing, 45-6, 50, 53, 235-6; features and landscape, 43-4; key source of poetical inspiration, 52, 53; and kurgans, 43, 44-5; summer holidays spent
by Chekhov in, 47-9; travels to by Chekhov as a boy, 46-7 Strabo,9 stranniki xxxi
Stretenka Street (Moscow), 62, 62 'Student, The', 267, 268 Sukhumi (Abkhazia), 118 Sumy, 112; dacha at, 112-16, 119-20
Suvorin, Alexei, 33, 118, 120, 140, 147, 150, 243, 289; background and journalistic career, 140-1; Chekhov's letters to, 141, 145, 162-3, 165-6, 173-4, 183, 195, 202, 213-14, 217, 219, 223, 268, 272, 322-3; and death of Chekhov, 336-7; dislike of Melikhovo, 223; and New Times, 140-1; relationship with Chekhov, 143-4, 144-5, 158, 289; residence, 145; and staging of Ivanov at the Alexandrinsky Theatre, 152; and theatre, 149; travels to Europe with Chekhov, 186, 191, 192 Suvorin, Alexei Jr (son), 118 Suvorin, Anna, 243 Svobodin, Pavel, 153, 154 Svyatogorsk Monastery, 113
Taganrog, 1, 2-8, 27-8, 37, 52, 54, 235; attack of by British forces during Crimean War, 15-21; building of by Peter the Great, 11; building of library and museum, 247; 'Chekhov Cottage', 341, 345; Chekhov museums in, 341, 345; Chekhov's childhood and upbringing in, 24-7, 29-30, 49; Chekhov's return visits to, 8-9, 22, 317; donation of books to library by Chekhov, 30, 219, 247; flourishing of, 13-14;
Taganrog - Continued
history, 9-14; maritime trade,
28; palace of Alexander I,
316-17; port at, 3; and 'Pushkin oak', 315-17, 318-19; return visits to by Chekhov, 8-9, 22,41,42-3,317; shooting of mayor (2002), 341-2, 343-4; statue of Peter the Great, 12-13, 12, 22
Taganrog gymnasium, 3—4, 14, 25,
28, 39 . , Taganrog Onion of Businessmen,
19
Tales of Melpomene, 70, 134, 135
Tana, 9, 10
Tanais, 7, 9
Tascher, Joachim, 264
Tatar-Mongols, 36
Tatars, 1, 10, 271-4, 272-3, 281
Taube, Dr, 329, 332
Tbilisi, 118
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr, 5-6, 68, 83,
110,313 Tchaikovsky, Ippolit, 5 Ternovskaya, Nadezhda, 262 theatres, 88, 90 Thesiger, Sir Wilfred xxxi 'This and That', 63-4 'Thoughts of a Reader of
Newspapers and Journals', 133 Three Sisters, 126, 128, 206, 253, 302-3,314,315,317-18,
20, 334-5 'Three Years', 33,41, 66-7 Times Literary Supplement, 337 Tolstoy, Count Egor Petrovich, 19,
20
Tolstoy, Count Lev Nikolaevich, 20, 130, 131, 162, 189, 200, 231, 276, 308, 311 Tomsk, 169
Trans-Siberian Railway, 160 Trubnaya Square (Moscow), 58, 58,
60
'Tschechow Salon' Literary
Museum, 351-2 Tsurikov, 98, 99 tuberculosis, 299 Turgenev, 26, 68, 130 Tuzik (dog), 309
Ukrainian peasants, 117 Uncle Vanya, 93, 115, 131, 154, 199, 214, 253, 299-300, 300, 311; matinee performance for doctors at Eighth Pirogov Congress (1902), 298, 299; pren гге at Moscow Art Theatre, 285, 297, 298; success of, 285-6 Union of Artists, 348 Uspensky Cathedral (Taganrog), 39
Valter, Dr, 242 'Vanka', 311-12 Vasily, Father, 337 Venetians, 9-10 Vengerov, Semyon, 336 Venice, 187
Vespasian, Emperor, 330-1 Vesuvius, Mount, 188 Victoria, Queen, 239 Vienna, 186-7 Vishnevsky, Alexander, 298 Vladislavlev, Mikhail, 109 Volunteer Fleet, 178 Vorontsov, Count Mikhail, 259,
260, 269 Voskresensk, 98, 99, 305
'Ward No. 6', 79, 85, 295, 341,
342-3 Wedding, The, 3-4 Western Europe: Chekhov travels
to, 123, 186-92 'What Do You Come Across Most Often in Novels, Short Stories Etc?', 131-2
White Dacha (Yalta), 270-1, 274-6, 279, 281-2, 283-5, 287, 325, 346-8 'Witch, The', 109, 142 wolf-baiting, 108 'Woman's Kingdom, A', 33 Wood Demon, The, 92-3
Yakobi, Valerian, 242 Yakunchikova, Maria, 303, 305 Yalta, xxxii, 1, 22, 98, 122, 193, 255-88, 277, 323: boredom and loneliness felt whilst in, 1, 324; Chekhov moves permanently to, 317; Chekhov Museum, 346-8; Chekhov's first visit to and view of (1888), 255-8; Chekhov's house at Autka (White Dacha), 270-1, 274-6, 279, 281-2, 283-5, 287, 325, 346-8; Chekhov's second visit (1894), 265-7, 271; feeling of
homesickness for Moscow whilst in, 277, 278, 296, 308; garden, 279-80, 286, 320; harbour, 269, 282; history of and transformation, 258-61, 269; and imperial family, 259, 260-1; newspaper interest in Chekhov, 320-2; stories written whilst staying in, 267; tour of Moscow Art Theatre (1900), 275, 297-8, 310-11; tuberculosis sufferers living in, 264-5, 287-8, 322 Yalta Theatre, 311, 348-9 Yauzlar Sanatorium (Yalta), 288 Yenisey River, 170, 170 Ykaterinburg, 168 Yukhantsev, 171
Yurasov, Vice-Consul Nikolai, 241
zemstvo medicine, 77-8, 216, 217 Zola, Emile, 234 Zvenigorod, 101, 102, 305
