Tula, 1, 2
Tunka, 1, 2, 3
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich (1818–1883), 1, 2
Turkey, 1, 2, 3, 4
Tuscany, 1, 2
Tverskaya Street, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
hostel of Savvino-Starozhevsky
Monastery on, 1;
Pushkin lives on, 1;
Tsvetaeva on, 1;
Zinaida
Volkonskaya’s salon, 1, 2
Tverskoi Boulevard, 1, 2
Tyutchev, Fyodor Ivanovich (1803–1873), 1
Ukraine, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Ulan Bator, 1
UN (United Nations), 1, 2
Ungern-Sternberg, Roman Nicolaus
Fyodorovich von (1886–1921), 1, 2, 3
United Russia Party, 1
Urals, The, 1
Uspensky, Savva Mikhailovich, 1
Ustreka, 1
Varga, Evgeny Samuilovich (1879–1964), 1
Vasilevsky, Alexander Mikhailovich, Marshal (1895–1977), 1
Vavilov, Nikolai Ivanovich (1887–1943), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Vavilov, Sergei Ivanovich (1891–1951), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
and Cherenkov, 1;
and conservation, 1;
in Italy, 1;
and Yakushkin, 1
Venice, 1, 2, 3
Verne, Jules (1828–1905), 1, 2
Verona, 1
Veselovsky, Nikolai Ivanovich (1848–1918), 1
Vienna, 1
Vladivostok, 1
Voentorg (Military Department Store), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Volga River, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Volkhov River, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Volkonskaya, Maria Nikolaevna (1806–1863), 1, 2, 3
Volkonskaya, Zinaida Alexandrovna (1792–1862), 1, 2
Volkonsky, Sergei Grigorevich (1788–1865), 1
Voloshin, Maximilian Alexandrovich (1877–1932), 1
Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) (1694–1778), 1, 2
Vorkuta, 1
Voronezh, 1
Voronina, Vera see Firsanova
Voroshilov, Kliment Efremovich, Marshal (1881–1969), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Vozdvizhenka Street, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
Vvedenskoe, 1
Vyazemsky, Pyotr Andreevich (1792–1878), 1
Vyshinsky, Andrei Yanuarevich (1883–1954), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9;
dacha, 1;
and Manuilsky, 1;
Stalin’s seventieth birthday, 1;
and Nikolai Vavilov, 1
Webb, Sidney (1859–1947), 1
Wells, Herbert George (1866–1946), 1
White Armies, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
White Sea, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
White Sea Canal, 1
Wortley Montagu, Lady Mary, 1
Willoughby, Hugh (d.1554), 1
Woolf, Virginia (1882–1941), 1
World of Art, Movement, 1, 2
Yagoda, Genrikh Grigorevich (1891–1938), 1, 2
Yakovlev, Yakov Arkadevich (1896–1938), 1
Yakunchikov, Vasili Ivanovich (1827–1907), 1
Yakunchikova, Maria Vasilevna (1870–1902), 1
Yakunin, Gleb Pavlovich (1934–), 1, 2
Yakushkin, Ivan Dmitrievich (1793–1857), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Yakushkin, Ivan Vyacheslavovich (1885–1960), 1
Yanin, Valentin Lavrentevich (1929–), 1, 2, 3
Yaroslavl, 1
Yaroslavsky, Emilian Yaroslavovich (1878–1943), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
prosecutes Ungern-Sternberg, 1, 2
Yauza River, 1, 2
Yeltsin, Boris Nikolaevich (1931–2007), 1, 2, 3
Yenisei River, 1, 2, 3
Yezhov, Nikolai Ivanovich (1895–1940), 1, 2, 3
Yugoslavia, 1
Yukos, 1
Yuriev Monastery, Novgorod, 1
Zaporozhe, 1
Zaraisk, 1
Zasulich, Vera Ivanovna (1849–1919), 1
Zhdanov, Andrei Alexandrovich (1896–1948), 1
Zheleznovodsk, 1
Zhemchuzina, Polina Semyonovna (1897–1970), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
arrest, 1, 2
Zhukov, Georgy Konstantinovich, Marshal (1896–1974), 1, 2, 3
Zhukovka, 1, 2
Zhukovsky, V. S. (1925–), 1, 2, 3, 4
Zhukovsky, Vasili Andreevich (1783–1852), 1, 2
Zinoviev, Grigory Evseevich (1883–1936), 1, 2
Znamenka Street, 1, 2
Zoological Museum, 1
Zoshchenko, Mikhail Mikhailovich (1895–1958), 1
Zvenigorod, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10;
Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery, 1,
Zvonarsky Lane, 1
Zyuganov, Gennady Andreevich (1944–), 1
About the Author
Rachel Polonsky is the author of English Literature and the Russian Aesthetic Renaissance. She has written for the TLS, the Spectator, Areté, the New Statesman and the Evening Standard, among others. She lives in Cambridge with her family.
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