Mavor, James 12, 379
Maximilian, Duke of Leuchtenberg 79
Mazurin, Boris 431, 450–51
Medzhibovskaya, Inessa 442
Meilakh, Boris 450
Melety, Metropolitan 386
Mennonites 379, 429
Mensheviks 398
Menshikov, Prince Alexander 16
Menshikov, Mikhail 381
merchant class
T’s aversion to 6, 21
in Moscow 56
depicted in Ostrovsky’s Bankruptcy 126
Merezhkovsky, Dmitry 394, 404, 409, 424
Methodius, St 53
Meyer, Adam Fyodorovich 64
Mill, John Stuart 186, 219
The Subjection of Women 186
Milyutin, Alexey 62, 63
Milyutin, Vladimir 63
Mikula Selyaninovich (bogatyr) 188, 194
Minayev, Ivan 305
Ministry of Agriculture 428
Ministry of Culture 444
Ministry of Education 142, 147, 201
Ministry of Foreign Affairs 92, 399
Ministry of Internal Affairs 128, 147, 303, 320, 396, 423
Ministry of Justice 85, 452
Moscow archive 17, 277
Ministry of People’s Enlightenment 428
Ministry of War 111
Miserbiyev, Sado 102
Mishenka (T’s illegitimate brother) 20
Missionary Congresses 385–6
modernism 374
Moldavia 107, 108, 254
Molière 133, 180
Molokans 269, 271–2, 290, 302, 303, 320, 376, 385
Molostvova, Zinaida 99
Molotov, Vyacheslav 437, 441
Monastery of the Cyzicus Martyrs, Kazan 73
Mongols 21
Montaigne, Michel de 141
Montels, Vicomte Jules (‘Monsieur Nief’) 265, 273, 275, 279, 288
Montels, Lucie (née Gachet) 265
Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de 97
De l’esprit des lois 81
Montreux, Switzerland 134
Moravian Brethren 52, 53, 54
Moravian Church 53
Morgachev, Dmitry 445–6, 447, 451
Morozov, Pyotr (teacher at Yasnaya Polyana school) 141
Morozov, Savva 337
Moscow
Napoleon’s troops march on 171, 172
great Moscow fire (1812) 151
Napoleon’s retreat from (1812) 62, 172
Tolstoy family moves to (1837) 56–7, 69
Zamoskvorechie 56, 136, 228
cornerstone laid for Cathedral of Christ the Saviour 62–3
T moves to Arbat area 88
gypsy choirs 94
salons 96
four Tolstoy brothers photographed together 107–8
T meets Moscow-based writers 124–5
T visits with his sister Masha and her children 136
T’s research in 167, 266, 269
T dreams of having a pied-a-terre in 187
infamous murder case (1850) 221
centre of Russian Pan-Slavism 247
Tolstoy family moves to (1881) 252, 291–2
Orthodox faithful and Old Believers debates 269
Pushkin celebrations (1880) 282–3, 291, 304
search for new teachers for Tolstoy children 283
T visits the city’s slums 291–2, 294, 317
census (1882) 294, 295–6, 299, 317
condemned by T as a ‘foul sewer’ 297
T finds and renovates a winter home for the family 301–2
Nicholas II’s coronation 365
first Missionary Congresses (1887 and 1891) 385
unrest on the day of T’s funeral 415
Sonya negotiates to sell family house in 418
T’s former house is nationalised 427
Moscow Conservatoire 167, 361, 371, 430, 436
Moscow Gazette (newspaper) 163, 200, 212
Moscow Literacy Committee 200, 228, 232
Moscow Manège 359
Moscow military court 421
Moscow Spiritual Academy 278
Moscow University 70, 151, 152, 190, 291, 313, 326, 413
Moscow-Kursk railway line 175
Moskauer Deutscher Zeitung 186
Mount Athos 254, 255, 258, 314
Mount Beshtau 104
Mount Elbrus 105
Mountain Cossacks (Grebenskie kazaki) 100–101
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 371, 372
Mozhaysk, Bishop of 278
Mozhaysk 171
Mtsensk 130
Müller, Max 257
The Six Systems of Indian Philosophy 389
Murat, Hadji 100, 364–365
Muravyov-Apostol, Matvey 275
Muravyov-Apostol, Sergey 275
Musorgsky, Modest 215, 216–17
Khovanshchina 270
The Nursery 217
N
Nadezhda (sloop) 49, 50
Nagornova, Varvara Valerianovna (Varya née Tolstaya T’s niece) 93, 141, 206, 268, 316
Nakhimov, Admiral 115
Naples 142
Napoleon Bonaparte 13, 19, 20, 57, 62–3, 69, 70, 94, 100, 132–3, 165, 167, 171, 172, 266, 275
Napoleonic Wars 166
Naryshkin, Alexander 221
Naryshkin, Semyon Kirillovich 26
Naryshkina, Nadezhda 220–21
Nastasina, Pelageya Ivanovna (‘Pashenka’
Alexandra Ilyinichna’s ward) 32, 38, 41, 43, 60
nationalism 249
Nazis 444
Nekrasov, Nikolay 105, 106, 107, 109, 111, 115, 120, 123, 126, 128, 132, 135, 137
Neva (ship) 49
New Economic Policy (NEP) 432, 434
New Polyana 420
New Testament in modern Russian 271–2, 292
New Times (newspaper) 248, 249, 330, 391
New York Evening Post 338
Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia 13, 46, 62, 75, 79, 85, 86, 91, 92, 108, 109, 111, 112, 122, 136, 137, 151, 155, 165, 213, 215, 220, 266, 267, 270, 355, 395–6
Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia 6, 126, 326, 349, 365, 368, 376, 386, 387, 391, 391, 392, 395, 396, 398, 399, 401, 419, 421
‘Nief, Monsieur’ see Montels, Vicomte Jules
Nietzsche, Friedrich 184
Nietzschean philosophy 389
nihilism, nihilists 144, 147, 219, 235, 259, 265, 272
Nikolay Filippovich (Yasnaya Polyana coachman) 45
Nikolskoye-Vyazemskoye estate, Tula province 38, 82, 144, 161, 234, 331
Nikon, Father 278
Nikon, Patriarch 270
XIXe Siecle, Le (newspaper) 178
Nizhny Novgorod 69, 94, 208, 210, 337
Nobel Prizes 410–11
nobility see aristocracy
Non-resistance (journal) 341
Nord, Le (Russian government’s French-language journal) 115
Nordman, Natalya Borisovna 350
Norman, Sir Henry 2
Northern Messenger (journal) 357
Notes of the Fatherland (journal) 131, 200, 234–5
Novikov, Mikhail 448
Novodevichy Convent and Cemetery, Moscow 323
Novokuznetsk (later Stalinsk) 448–9
Novospassky Monastery, Moscow 428
Novy mir (literary journal) 451
numerology 34, 251
O
Obolenskaya, Elizaveta Valerianovna (Lizanée Tolstaya T’s niece) 93, 141, 206, 268, 366
Obolenskaya, Maria Lvovna (Masha
née Tolstaya
T’s daughter) 314, 325
birth 185, 187, 189
appearance 202, 403
education 234
Biryukov tries to marry her 315, 326
T’s favourite 326, 366, 404
T relies on her for assistance and moral support 326, 366
temporarily renounces her share of T’s property 331, 366
famine relief 336, 339, 340
involvement in Tolstoyan movement 356–7
marries Nikolay Obolensky 366
miscarriage 389
death 404
Obolensky, Dmitry Dmitrievich 85
Obolensky, Leonid Dmitrievich 206
Obolensky, Nikolay Leonidovich (T’s son-in-law) 366, 403
Odessa 103, 110, 401
Oka river 69
Okhotnitskaya, Natalya Petrovna (Toinette’s companion) 88, 152, 205, 206, 233
Old Believers 167, 269, 270, 271, 276, 278, 290–91, 336–7, 385, 448
Old Testament 302
Olteniţa, Wallachia 108
Optina Pustyn Monastery, Kaluga province 253–7, 258, 280, 281, 289–90, 328, 384, 393–4, 412, 413
Orekhanov, Father Georgy 454
Orekhov, Alexey Stepanovich (Alyoshka T’s servant) 99, 147, 155, 205
Orekhova, Avdotya (Dunyasha
née Bannikova) 205
Orenburg 208, 211, 266
Orlov-Chesmensky, Count 94
Orsett House, Westbourne Terrace, London 142
Oryol 30, 123, 124, 274
Osten-Sacken, Alexandra Ilyinichna von (‘Aline’