supports war effort in World War I 422
obtains release of T’s daughter Alexandra from the Lubyanka 427–8
opposition to the Bolsheviks 429, 432
writes testimonials for Tolstoyans 429
writes impassioned ‘Letter to English Friends’ 429–30
forms Co-operative Association 432
refusal to compromise his beliefs 433
the subject of several denunciations 433
raided by the Cheka 434
avoids exile 434
and Stalin 437, 441, 448
ill-health 440
death 442
named blackened in print 450
Chertkov, Vladimir Vladimirovich (Dima) 360
Chertkova, Anna Konstantinovna (‘Galya’
née Diterikhs) 367, 402, 408, 410
Chertkova, Elizaveta Ivanovna 307, 366, 384–5, 402
Chertkov family 420
Chertkov Public Library, Moscow 167, 168, 305
Cheti-Menei (‘monthly readings’) 191, 192
chinovnik (representative of imperial bureaucracy) 6
Chopin, Fryderyk François 262, 371
Prelude in D Flat Major 261
Christchurch, Hampshire (now Dorset) 406, 407, 408
Christianity 258
Christian teaching 4–5
T’s views on 5
Russian Christianisation 191
Dostoyevsky embraces 252
T’s and Alexeyev’s discussions 263
T’s discussions with Molokans 302
morality as its cornerstone 310
Matthew Arnold on 311
practical 341
Tolstoyan 352
and redemptive love 373
spiritual essence of 374
resurgence of 454
Church Fathers 255, 277, 384
Church News 389, 390
Church of England 310
Church of the Nativity of Our Lady, Kremlin, Moscow 155
Church Slavonic 191, 197, 263, 271, 286, 287, 384, 385
Circassians 100, 104, 405
Circus-Theatre, St Petersburg 129
civil service Table of Ranks 90, 94, 151
Clarens, Switzerland 133, 134
Co-operative Association for the Study and Dissemination of the Works of Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy 432
Cold War 447
collectivisation 447, 448
Collins, Wilkie
The Law and the Lady 236
A Woman in White 204
Commissariat of People’s Enlightenment 433, 436
Common Cause, The (revolutionary émigré journal) 305
Communards 265
communism, collapse of 454
Communist Party 433, 439
Central Committee 434, 437, 443, 447
Propaganda and Agitation Department 442
Comte, Auguste 321
Confucius 311
Congress of Religious Sects (June 1920) 431
Constantinople 270
Contemporary, The (literary journal) 105, 111, 115, 116, 120, 121, 125, 126, 128, 131, 132, 134, 135, 137, 142, 148, 253
contraception 245
Cornfield, The (magazine) 377, 378
Cossacks 100–101, 364, 379, 448
Counter Reformation 53
Coxe, William 127
Crimea
Catherine the Great’s tour 22
conquered by Catherine the Great 99
T and Leonid Urusov visit (1885) 322
Chekhov lives in 379
T recuperates in 394–5, 410
Crimean Tatars 22
Crimean War (1853–6) 107–16, 130, 158, 165, 247, 257, 352
Crosby, Ernest 362
Custine, Marquis de 86, 94–5
Cynics (Greek Philosophers) 77
Cyprus 378
Cyril, St 53
Cyrillic alphabet 190
Cyrus the Great 190
D
Daghestan 100
highlanders 365
Daily Telegraph 338, 339
Dante Alighieri 387
Dargomyzhsky, Alexander: Rusalka 129
Darwin, Charles: Origin of Species 310
Davy, Humphry 195
Dawn, The (Slavophile journal) 181, 186
Decembrist Uprising (1825), Decembrists 13, 75, 86, 93, 142, 164–5, 266–9, 274–5, 276, 287, 314
Diaghilev, Sergey: visits T 5, 9
Diary of a Writer (journal) 249
Dickens, Charles 142, 204, 315, 349
David Copperfield 76, 87, 98
Dombey and Son 274
Little Dorrit 130
Martin Chuzzlewit 274
Dietetic Reformer and Vegetarian Messenger, The (journal) 334
Dijon 133
dikost 48, 49, 60, 123
Dillon, Emile 338, 339
Diogenes 77–8
divorce in Imperial Russia 241–2, 243
Dmitry of Rostov, St 192
Dobrinya Nikitich (bogatyr) 65, 66
Dobrolyubov, Alexander 131
Dole, Nathan Haskell 317
Dolgorukov, Prince Pyotr 153, 275, 298, 305
Domna (Yasnaya Polyana servant) 264
Domostroi 80
Don river 217
Dora (English governess to the Tolstoys) 204
Dorpat University 70
Dostoyevskaya, Anna Grigorievna 316
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 167, 229, 246
arrested and imprisoned 92, 93
a member of the Petrashevsky Circle 92
Siberian exile 93, 252, 283
T’s main rival 93, 249
differing worldview from T’s 93
tirade against T 249–50
spiritual crisis 252, 283
almost meets T 267
and Pushkin celebrations (1880) 282–3
death 283
The Brothers Karamazov 282, 393–4
Crime and Punishment 169
Diary of a Writer 249
The Gambler 89
Notes from the House of the Dead 174, 283
‘White Nights’ 92
Dresden 143
Drozhzhin, Evdokim 353–4
Druzhinin, Alexander 134
Dukhobors (‘wrestlers in the name of the Holy Spirit’) 6, 271, 355–7, 364–5, 385, 386, 411, 448
emigration to Canada 376, 378–9, 380, 430–31
Duma 401, 419
Dumas, Alexandre 179, 221
The Count of Monte-Cristo 75
The Fencing Teacher 75
The Three Musketeers 75
Dumas, Alexandre, fils 220–21
La Dame aux camélias 221
L’Homme-femme 220, 221
Dyakov, Dmitry Alexeyevich 130, 184, 206, 243, 244
Dyakova, Darya Alexandrovna (Dolly) 184
Dyakova, Maria Dmitrievna (Masha) 206
Dyakova, Sofya Robertovna (née Voitkevich
‘Sofesh’) 244
Dzerzhinsky, Felix 428, 434
E
Eastern Orthodoxy 53
‘Eastern Question’ 247
Edison, Thomas 409, 410
education
lack of adequate public education in Russia 140
T teaches village children to read and write 3, 4, 9
T puts together an ABC and reading primers 4, 188–201
T’s school at Yasnaya Polyana 4, 93, 140, 141, 144, 145, 146, 190, 197–8, 251, 340, 433, 436, 440
T aims to provide the masses with high-quality reading matter 17
T’s child-centred approach 76, 140, 146, 201
T learns about pedagogy abroad 141–4
T permitted to found a pedagogical journal 144
T’s growing network of unconventional schools 3, 145
T’s teachers 145, 146, 148
ill-conceived university reforms 145–6
relationship between T and pupils 146–7
Ministry of Internal Affairs’ perception of T’s schools 147
secret police file on T 147
secret police raid Yasnaya Polyana 148
importance of his work to T 148
T closes his schools down 148, 160
T’s article condemning university education 163
T’s views on his children’s education 189
local teachers study T’s methods 200, 230–31
T’s ‘On Popular Education’ 200, 233
inconclusive trial of his teaching method 233
Sonya’s dislike of T’s obsession with pedagogy 235–6
Edward VII, King 307
Eikhenbaum, Boris 439
Elders (startsy) 4, 6, 10, 17, 66, 254–8, 280, 290, 346, 384, 393, 394, 309, 412
Eliot, George 315
Elizabeth, Empress of Russia 16, 151