Gillette razors, 134
Goebbels, Joseph, 234–236
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 241
gramophones, 79–80
Greiser, Karl, 258
Grillparzer, Franz Seraphicus, 240–250
Grock (clown), 56–58
Grünbaum, Fritz, 116
Grunewald, 197
gypsies, 54–55
Habsburgs, 91n, 92, 94, 240, 245–246, 250
Hamburg, 17–18, 47
Hamburg Gold Mark, 17–18
Heine, Heinrich, 237–241
Hitler, Adolf, 45, 239
hospitals, 216
“Hotel Kopriva”, 77–80
hotels, 9–11, 77–80, 155–159, 190–193
and commercial travellers, 78–79
the cook, 170–174
departures, 186–189
and guests’ letters, 81, 158–159, 184
Italian, 81–84
“Madame Annette”, 175–180
the old waiter, 166–169
the patron, 181–185
the “poor man”, 251–254
the receptionist, 160–165
Italy
and Albania, 131–133, 136, 141–142, 145
Fascist, 81–84
Jablonovka, 255–260
Jardins du Luxembourg, 103
Jews
Czechoslovak, 171–172
emigrants, 13–16
Russian émigrés, 103
in Soviet Union, 113–114
traders, 66, 68
Joseph II, Emperor, 244
Kadare, Ismail, 151n
Kahlenberg, the, 241
Kalmucks, 117–118
Kazan, 112
Kirghiz, 117–118
Koblenz, 43–44
Komsomol, 112–113
Königgrätz (Sadová), battle of, 243, 250
“Köpenick-iad”, 46
Korça, 137, 150
Kronstadt, 11
Kruja, 149
“Kukuruza”, 66
Kun, Béla, 64–65
Kurfürstendamm, 12, 197, 207
Le Havre, 176
League of Nations, 139
Lehár, Franz, 244
Leipzig, 31
Lemberg (Lviv), 69
Lenau, Nikolaus, 45
Lenin, Vladimir, 48, 102
Lissa, battle of, 243
Luna Park, 199
Luther, Martin, 244
Lviv, see Lemberg
Magdeburg, 34–37, 114
malaria, 129, 143, 146
mandolins, 138–139
Marseilles, 155n
matches, 60
Matteotti, Giacomo, 235
Maupassant, Guy de, 86
Metternich, Klemens von, 84
Meyerhold, Vsevolod, 102
millionaires, 10–11, 220
Minnesingers, 242
Monte Carlo, 222
morphine, 51–53
Mraznica, 74
Munich, 44–45
musicians, Albanian, 137–138
Musil, Robert, 91n
Mussolini, Benito, 82–84
Nansen passports, 102
Napoleon Bonaparte, 244, 248–249
NEP-men, 108, 110, 114
Nestroy, Johann, 250
Nicholas II, Czar, 88–90, 102
Niegoreloye border crossing, 105–107
Nizhny Novgorod, 108, 110
Nuremberg, 211
Nürnberger, Helmuth, 155n
offices, 202–203, 216
oil industry
Galician, 71–76, 123
Soviet, 121–125
Olszewska, Frau, 257
opanci shoes, 145
Paris Hippodrome, 102
Petljura, Symon, 103
Plattdeutsch, 22
Pokrovsk, 112
police and police spies
Austro-Hungarian, 64–65, 93–94, 96–97
Italian, 81–84
Soviet secret police, 114
policemen, 14, 32, 86
Albanian, 134–136, 140–141, 149
post-chaises, 220
press, German, 234–236
prostitutes, 51–53, 67
“Prussian blue”, 249
Radetzky, Joseph, 95, 243
Radetzky March, 210, 245
railway travel, 215, 218–229
railways
German, 30–32
Russian, 106
Raimund, Ferdinand, 250
Rasputin, Grigori, 104
ravens, 70
Razin, Stenka, 124
Rebner, Arthur, 116
Red Army, 107, 112, 114
Red Guards, 64–65
Red Square, 92
Reichsmark notes, 30
Roethe, Professor, 33, 41, 45
Röhm, Ernst, 235
Rügen, 21
Ruhrgebiet, 23–29
Russian Civil War, 112–13, 117
Russian Revolution, 48, 104, 111–114, 117
Sabunchi, 121, 123–124
St Petersburg, 88
Samara, 113
Samhaber, Eduard, 233
Sarajevo, 85–87, 249
Saratov, 112
Sassnitz, 21
Schleicher, Kurt von, 235
Schlieffen, Count, 47
Schönbrunn, 94, 96
Scutari, 145, 150
Skumli, river, 149
Sofia, 144
South Slavs, 131–133, 145
Stalingrad, 112– 113
Stanislavksy, Konstantin, 102
Stifter, Adalbert, 250
Sundays, 199–201
swastikas, 18, 21–22, 42, 45
Tartars, 111
Theory of Relativity, 220–221
Thiele, Wilhelm, 43–45
Third Reich, 234–236, 239
Thormann, Mayor, 22
Tirana, 134–139, 144–145
toilets, 30–31, 138, 143, 221
trams, 23–25, 28, 30, 36, 85, 92, 97, 121, 156
Trotsky, Leon, 48, 88, 103
Tustanowice, 74
unemployment, 17–18, 28, 32, 75
Vallentin, Antonina, 237, 239
Valona, 150
Verlaci, Shefgiet, 149
Viennese Burgtheater, 245, 250
Viennese Prater, 103
Volhynia, 102
Voigt, cobbler, 46
Volga, river, 108–116
songs, 114–116
Volksgarten, 208–210
Wannsee, 199
Warsaw, 119
Wehmut, 246
Weltschmerz, 244
Wendel, Hermann, 238
White Star Line, 13
Zagacki, Franz, 49–50
Zogu, President Ahmed, 129–133, 142, 149
zouaves, 177–178
Zuckmayer, Carl, 46n