Baryatinsky, General Prince Alexander 102
Bashkir people 4, 36, 188, 191, 208–11, 238, 269, 273, 368
Bashkirian steppe 152, 191
Batumi, Black Sea 379
Bayreuth 358
Bazykin, Timofey (T’s illegitimate son) 138
Bazykina, Aksinya 138, 139, 158, 159, 264
Becker, Jakob 370
Beckett, Samuel 184
Beesly, Edward Spencer 262–3
Beethoven, Ludwig van 136, 371, 372
‘Ode to Joy’ (from Symphony N0.9) 439
Piano Trios, Op.70 95
Violin Sonata N0.9 (Kreutzer) 325
Begichevka, Ryazan province 337, 339, 340, 342, 354
Beguny (‘runners’) 271
Belinsky, Vissarion 92, 105, 121, 131
Bell, The (newspaper) 142
Berdyaev, Nikolay 3, 270–71, 310, 424
The Origin of Russian Communism 79
Berezov, Tobolsk province 355
Berlin 141, 144
Bern, Switzerland 134
Bernard, St 134
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Jacques-Henri: Paul et Virginie 98
Bers, Alexander Andreyevich (Sasha Sonya’s brother) 162, 239, 243, 266
Bers, Dr Andrey Estafievich (Sonya’s father)
birth (1808) 151
family doctor to the Turgenevs 151
enters the civil service 151
marriage to Lyubov Islavina 151–2
loses patience with T 163
involved in publication of War and Peace 166–7, 168, 170–71
death 184
Bers, Elizaveta Andreyevna (Liza; Sonya’s sister) 152, 153, 158, 243
Bers, Evstafy Iogannovich (Gustav; Sonya’s grandfather) 151, 161
Bers, Ivan (originally Johann Bärs or Behrs
Sonya’s great-grandfather) 150–51
Bers, Lyubov Alexandrovna (née Islavina
Sonya’s mother) 150, 207
marriage to Andrey Bers 151–2
her children 152
and Sonya’s marriage to T 154
birth of grandson Sergey 162–3
T stays with her 266
death 323
Bers, Pyotr Andreyevich (Petya; Sonya’s brother) 199, 268, 292
Bers, Stepan Andreyevich (‘Uncle Styopa’
Sonya’s brother) 172, 174–5, 207, 208, 211, 238, 268
Bers, Vladimir Andreyevich (Volodya
Sonya’s brother) 155, 231
Bers, Vyacheslav Andreyevich (Sonya’s brother) 150, 268
Bessarabia 108, 337
Bibikov, Alexander 161, 219–20
Bible in Russian
complete Bible 272
New Testament 271–2, 292
Billington, James, Librarian of Congress 451
Biryukov, Pavel (‘Posha’) 75, 315, 326, 350, 356, 364–7, 379, 402, 407, 419, 420, 422
Biryulevo, near Moscow 156
‘Bloody Sunday’ (9 January 1905) 401
bogatyrs 2, 4, 65, 66, 193, 194, 397
Bogdanovich-Lutovinova, Varvara
Nikolayevna (illegitimate daughter and ward of Turgenev’s mother) 151
Bolsheviks 398, 423, 424, 426, 428–35, 438, 439, 441
Bolshevism 424, 430, 435
Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow 59, 188, 372, 373, 438, 450
Bonch-Bruevich, Vladimir 379, 430
Bondarev, Timofey 318, 320
The Triumph of the Farmer or Industry and Parasitism 318, 320
Boot, Alexander 7
Borodino, Battle of (1812) 50, 171–2, 173, 179
Botkin, Nikolay 184
Botkin, Dr Sergey 245
Botkin, Vasily 184
Botkin family 134
Bouffes Parisiens 133
Boyer, Paul 68
Brezhnev, Leonid 446–7
British Museum, London 379, 409
Bronze Horseman, St Petersburg 267, 268
Brotherhood Church, Croydon, Surrey 362–3, 364, 375, 406
Brotherhood Publishing Company 364, 377–8
Brussels 143
Bucharest 107, 108, 109
Buddhism 184, 257, 305, 355
Bulgakov, Valentin 345, 411, 419–23, 426, 429, 430, 434, 436, 450
Bulgarian atrocities (1876) 177
Burnaya fort 102
Burnouf, Eugène 257
Buzuluk 210, 211
bylinas 65, 193, 194
Byzantine Empire 34, 191, 270
C
Calvin, John 288
Canada, Dukhobors emigrate to 376, 378–9, 380, 430–31
Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Moscow 62
Cathedral of St Sophia, Constantinople 62
Catherine I, Empress of Russia 16
Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia 2, 22, 23, 70, 85, 99, 101, 127, 215, 254, 343
Nakaz (Instruction) 81
‘Greek Project’ 99
Catholic Church indulgences 53
Caucasus 70, 125, 134, 352
T’s brother Nikolay serves in 84, 97, 130
T travels to and joins the army 98–107, 365
Levitsky’s photographs 126
climate 204
mineral springs 208
Khilkov exiled 353, 364
military conscription in 356
T’s son Andrey absconds to 368
T’s daughter Sasha serves in 425
Caves Monastery, Kiev 194, 277
Cedarville, near Wichita, Kansas 259
censorship 86, 92, 105, 106, 111–12, 115, 116, 121–2, 126, 137, 167, 170, 213, 300, 305, 308–9, 317, 320, 323, 324, 328–9, 333, 336, 343, 354, 361, 374, 375, 377, 395, 418, 423, 432, 441, 444, 451
Censorship Committee 396
Chaikovsky, Nikolay 259
Chambéry, France 134
Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 16
Cheboksary 69
Chechens
admiration for T 7
T writes about 7, 106
outwitting of General Ermolov 100
Russian guerrilla warfare against 103, 365
Cheka 428, 433, 434
Chekhov, Anton 66, 86, 376
T admires his short stories 296
regards T as Russia’s greatest living artist 296
on The Kreutzer Sonata 329–30, 333
studies Sakhalin penal colony 330
admires T’s famine relief work 335–6, 338
steals Tanya’s heart at Yasnaya Polyana 370
in the Crimea 379, 381, 395
tuberculosis 381
alarmed at T’s illness 381
telephone conversations with T 349, 395
T on his genius 404
death 400
‘A Nightmare’ 383
The Seagull 374
‘Supplementary Questions to the Personal Forms of the Statistical Census Suggested by Antosha Chekhonte’ 296
Chernyshevsky, Nikolay 131–2, 137, 148, 284
The Aesthetic Relations of Art to Reality 132
What Is to Be Done? 219, 305, 398
Chertkov, Alexander 167–8
Chertkov, Grigory 167–8
Chertkov, Vladimir Grigorievich 6, 307, 317, 327, 391, 423
background 306, 331, 350
education 306
army career 306, 352
appearance 306
character 306
T’s closest friend 6, 306
decision to devote his life to the peasantry 306–7
religious views in tune with T’s 307–8
correspondence with T 308, 314–15, 377, 407
court connections 308, 324
The Intermediary set up 315
his wealth 315
opens a bookshop in Moscow 315
influence over T’s affairs 7, 349, 410
vegetarian 350
visits Drozhzhin 353
group portrait of male Tolstoyans 356–7
T finds a dacha for him and his family 360
displaces Sonya in T’s affections 7, 362
evidence on persecution of sectarians in Russia 364
his life’s work 364, 377, 440
appeals for help for the Dukhobors 365
apartment searched and sent into exile 365
exiled in England 366, 422
marriage to Anna Diterikhs 367
and Goldenweiser 371
publication of T’s works 378, 395, 397, 399, 406–7, 421–2
sets up Free Word Press in Purleigh, Essex 378
Sergey Tolstoy visits in Essex 379
moves Free Word Press to St Petersburg 401
gradual return to Russia 402
visits Yasnaya Polyana 405, 405
sets up Free Age Press in Christchurch, Hampshire (now Dorset), 406
Tolstoy archive 407, 422
lack of interference from Russian government 407
seeks a buyer for Yasnaya Polyana 417–18
and T’s eightieth birthday 410
ordered to leave Tula province 410
Sonya’s hostility 410, 411, 412, 417
and T’s death at Astapovo station 412
biased account of T’s last days 418
copyright issue 418, 432
canonical edition of T’s complete collected works 422, 426, 432, 437, 440–42, 443