Elizaveta Fyodorovna, Grand Duchess 339
Elpidin, Mikhail 305, 317, 343
Emancipation of Serfdom Act (1861) 143, 145, 213, 218
Emerson, Ralph Waldo 314
Engelgardt, Varvara von 22
English Club, Moscow 19
Enlightenment 77
Enukidze, Avel 434
Epictetus 314
Ergolskaya, Elizaveta Alexandrovna 67, 87–8
Ergolskaya, Tatyana Alexandrovna (‘Toinette’) 55, 82, 129, 152, 181, 206
taken in as an orphaned child by T’s grandparents 42
importance in T’s life 32, 88, 122
on T as his mother’s favourite 33
appearance 42, 204
character 42, 205
and corporal punishment of serfs 42–3, 63–4
love for Nikolay Ilyich Tolstoy 43, 166, 233
selflessly refuses Nikolay Ilyich’s proposal 43
and Nikolay Ilyich’s death 58
takes Tolstoy children to Bolshoi Theatre 59
and Vladimir Yushkov 67
goes to live with sister Elizaveta 67
on T as an ‘incomprehensible creature’ 77
T’s promise to her 78–9
brought back to live at Yasnaya Polyana 87
entreats T to take up writing 88
correspondence with T 96–7, 103
beseeches T to take himself in hand 97
T reunited with her while in the army 107
looks after T’s brother Dmitry 123
and secret police raid of Yasnaya Polyana 148
and Sonya 156
and T’s views on adultery 221–2
death and funeral 233–4, 239
Ermolov, General Alexey 100, 102, 104
Esperantisto (journal) 361
Esperanto 361
European revolutions (1848) 86, 91, 92
Europeanisation 21, 24, 218
Evangelists 386
Evpatoria, Battle of (1855) 112
Evpraksiya (Dunechka Temyasheva’s nanny) 39
Ewing, Thomas: Principles of Elocution 195
F
famine
threat of in Samara province in 1873 4, 211–13
of 1892 5, 9, 335–40, 354, 401
during the Civil War 430–31
Faraday, Michael 195
female emancipation 219
Feoktist, Father 254, 329
Feoktistkov, Evgeny 324
Fet, Afanasy 121, 144, 173, 182, 184, 206, 230, 234, 239, 247, 281
Fet, Nadezhda 184
Fifield, Arthur 406
Figner, Medea 371
Figner, Nikolay 371
Filaret, Archpriest 300
Fille du régiment, La (Donizetti) 133
Fillmore, Charles and Myrtle 452
Finland, nationalist movement in 363
Five-Year Plan, first 447
Flaubert, Gustave 220
Madame Bovary 310
Florence 142, 165
Fodor, Alexander 443
Foka Demidych (T family butler) 46, 93
Fokanov, Timofey 210
Fontanka river 120
Frankfurt, Battle of 128
Franklin, Benjamin: Mémoires de la vie privée 97
Free Age Press 406
Free Russian Press 142
Free Word Press 378, 397, 401, 406, 407, 408
French Revolution (1789) 77, 220, 275
French Revolution (1848) 91
Freud, Sigmund 184
Frey, William (Vladimir Geins) 259, 262–3, 321–2
Froebel, Friedrich 141
Futurists 433
A Slap in the Face of Public Taste 374
Fyodor Ivanovich, see Rössel, Friedrich
Fyodorov, Nikolay 297
G
Gachet, Lucie see Montels, Lucie
Gandhi, Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand 8, 343, 410
Garrison, Wendell 341
Garrison, William Lloyd 341, 404
Gaskell, Elizabeth: Life of Charlotte Brontë 133
Gaspra, Crimea 396
Gavrilovka, Samara Province 212
Ge, Nikolay
friendship with T 142, 297
portrait of T 308
firm belief in manual work 308
vegetarianism 308
friend of the Tolstoy family 350
death 350
Geins, Vladimir see Frey, William
Geneva, Switzerland 133, 134, 241, 265, 305, 317, 343, 379
George, Henry 318, 404
Progress and Poverty 318
Georgia 99, 108
Georgian Military Highway 99, 102–3
Georgievsk, Treaty of (1783) 99
Gladkov (Cossack ataman) 100
glasnost 451
Gnedich, Nikolay 190
Godmanhood 259
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 133, 134, 166
The Sorrows of Young Werther 98, 230
Gogol, Nikolay 79, 87, 92, 121–2, 229, 256
Dead Souls 76, 86
The Gamblers 89
The Government Inspector 62
‘The Nose’ 90
‘The Overcoat’ 85, 86
‘Going to the People’ movement 218–19
Goldenweiser, Alexander 371, 412
Golikov, Ivan: Deeds of Peter the Great, Wise Reformer of Russia 216
Golitsyna, Princess Varvara 29
Goncharov, Ivan 120
Oblomov 7, 120
Gorbachev, Mikhail 451
Gorbunov-Posadov, Ivan 356, 410, 412
Gorchakov, Vasily (T’s great-uncle) 275–6
Gorky, Maxim 404
Gosizdat state publishing house 437
Goslitizdat 442, 443
Gospels 269, 278, 280, 290, 301, 307
St John 286, 287, 293
St Luke 399
St Mark 286
St Matthew 286, 295
T’s translation of 4, 252, 283, 285–7, 289
Gosse, Edmund 409
Gounod, Charles: Faust 187
Grand Armée 171
Great St Bernard Pass 134
‘Green Yuletide’ 260
Griesbach, Johann 285
Grigorovich, Dmitry 125
Grimm, Brothers 193, 196
Grindelwald, Switzerland 134
Gromova-Opulskaya, Lidiya 9, 452, 453
Grot, Nikolay 334, 336, 338
Grozny (previously Groznaya) 102
national museum 7
Grumant (summer cottage on the Voronka river) 24, 40
Grumant (village
renamed Ugryumy) 24
Gusev, Nikolay 405–6, 407, 411, 419, 423, 436
Materials for a Biography 9, 175
Gustafson, Richard 98, 113, 114
gypsies 94–5, 97, 121
H
Hachette 178, 179
Halifax, Nova Scotia 379
Hapgood, Isabel 12, 338
Hapsburg Empire 91
Harper’s Bazaar (magazine) 347
Haydn, Joseph 371
Heliodoros 34
Henissiénne, Louise 30
Henri de Mons 14
Hermitage, St Petersburg 29, 137
Herodotus 191, 196, 209
Herzen, Alexander 105, 126, 128, 142, 147, 170, 218
Hesychasm 254, 255, 384
Hindu philosophy 389
History Museum, Moscow 402, 418
Hollister, Alonzo 341
holy fool (yurodivy) 2, 311, 332, 333, 338
‘Ivan the Fool’ 42, 316, 333
Homer 166
The Iliad 136, 159, 190, 191
The Odyssey 191
Horace 75
Horse Guards 91, 150
Hôtel des Invalides, Paris 132–3
Hotel Napoleon, St Petersburg 89, 92, 121
Houses of Parliament, London 142, 238
Hugo, Victor 166
Hungarian revolution 91, 108
Hus, Jan 53, 288
Hussites 53
Hyères, south of France 141, 142
I
Iliodor (Russian monk) 34
illegitimacy 240–43
Ilya of Murom (bogatyr) 2, 65–6, 194, 397
Imperial Academy of Arts 229
Imperial Academy of Sciences 229, 422, 438, 444, 452
Imperial Geographic Society 394
Imperial Guard 422
Imperial Law Code 242
Imperial Public Library, St Petersburg 267
Imperial Russian Army
10th division 110
11th Artillery Brigade, 3rd Battery 112
11th division 110
14th Light Artillery Brigade, 3rd Battery 110
20th Artillery Brigade 84, 103
4th Battery 103
Life-Guards Imperial Family Rifle Regiment 130
outdated military tactics and poor conditions 111
T’s plans 112–13
Imperial Theatres 324
‘Indros’ (alleged German founder of Tolstoy dynasty) 14
Inkerman, Battle of (1854) 110
Inniskilling Fusiliers 363
intelligentsia
birth of 128
T’s membership of 3
critical of Russian government 3