T visits the Molokans 272, 290
Mackenzie Wallace meets Molokans and Bashkirs 273
T goes there for the last time 302
police surveillance of T 302–3
Lev Lvovich receives the estate 331
famine relief 340
Samara, Bishop of 303
Samarin, Pyotr 239
Samarkand 208–9
Samson-Himmelstierna, Hermann von 387
Sand, George 109, 126
Sarafov, Abdurashid 368
Sarolea, Charles 435
Savina, Maria 324
Schiller, Friedrich: The Robbers 76, 87
Schmidt, Maria Alexandrovna 351, 410
Schopenhauer, Arthur 184, 349, 373
Schubert, Franz 371
Schumann, Robert 371
Dichterliebe 371
Schuyler, Eugene 49, 175–7, 189–90, 198, 217–18, 281
Schweizerhof Hotel, Lucerne 134–5
Scott, Sir Walter 179
Scriabin, Alexander 361
Scythians 191
Sebastopol 322
siege of (1854–5) 109–12, 114–16, 119, 128, 149, 181, 236, 257, 444
sectarianism
government suppression of 167
peasants drawn towards 263
T becomes increasingly drawn to sectarians 269
T first meets ‘Molokans’ 269, 272
influx of Protestantism 270
schism in the Church caused by Old Believers 270
Old Believers dealt with ruthlessly 270
Berdyaev on 270–71
other sectarian groups 271, 290, 352, 385
religious dissenters allowed to practise their faith without fear of persecution (1906) 271
T see Jesus as sectarian 286
T first meets Syutayev 291
and Bondarev 319–20
T takes up the cause of persecuted sectarians 348–9, 376
T first meets Dukhobors 355–6
Chertkov collects evidence on sectarians’ persecution 364
third Missionary Congress opposes sects 385–6
Sekhin, Epifan (Epishka) 101
Semevsky, Mikhail 216, 268
Serafim of Sarov, St. 398
Serbo-Turkish War 247, 248, 299
Serbs 246
serfs
ruled over by Westernised nobility 2
T takes advantage of his serf girls 3
T’s attitude towards serfdom 3, 128
Volkonsky’s serfs at Yasnaya Polyana 26, 27–8, 36, 46, 93
Nikolay Ilyich’s serfs 36, 38
storytellers 40
corporal punishment 42–3, 63–4
at Christmas 46
building of Cathedral of Christ the Saviour 62
Nikolskoye estate serfs 82
Pirogovo estate serfs 82
Shcherbachevka estate serfs 82, 85
T inherits Yasnaya Polyana and 300 serfs 82, 84
Turgenev’s oblique criticism of serfdom 87
T’s emancipation plans 128, 129
T’s serfs transfer from corvée system to quit rent 136
T frees all his house serfs 136, 145
Emancipation of Serfdom Act (1861) 143, 145, 213, 218
abolition of serfdom 3, 27, 92, 127, 128, 131, 147
krepostniks (defenders of serfdom) 145, 218
see also peasantry
Sergeyenko, Pyotr 423, 427
Sergiev Posad 278
Sergius of Radonezh, St, Patron Saint of Russia 192, 278
‘Sermon on the Mount’ 76, 286, 301, 309, 311, 373
Serzhputovsky, General 108
Shabunin, Private Vasily 183, 407–8
Shah, Muhammed 211
Shakers 341
Shaker Answer, The 341
Shakespeare, William 121, 180, 246
King Lear 331–2
Shaliapin, Fyodor 371
Shamil, Imam 100, 365
Shaw, George Bernard 375–6, 409
Shchegolenok, Vasily 293
Shcherbachevka, Kursk province 82, 85, 90, 107, 124
Shcherbatova, Praskovya 137–8
Shcherbatsky, Prince 248
Shentalinsky, Vitaly 427
Sheremetev, Boris Petrovich 15, 26
Shklovsky, Viktor 439–40
Shmigaro, Dr 163, 167
Shuvalova, Countess 324
Sibelius, Jean 363
Siberia
Decembrist Uprising leaders exiled 75, 165
Dostoyevsky’s sentence 93
Chernyshevsky exiled 148, 284
Poles deported to 163
T’s ancestor Vasily Gorchakov sent to 275–6
Stalin in exile 284
Russian penal system 350
Lenin’s exile 366, 398
Tolstoyan commune in 445, 446
Silistra, Bulgaria 108–9
Simeon Stylites the Younger, St 192
Simferopol 111
Sitka Island, southern Alaska 50
Skakuny (‘jumpers’) 271 Škarvan, Albert 363, 378
Skoptsy (‘self-castrators’) 271, 385
Slavophiles 124, 125, 181, 216, 228, 247, 253
Slavic Bazaar Hotel, Moscow 247–8
‘Slavic Committee’ 247
Slavic Congress, second (Moscow, 1867) 247
Smolensk province 306, 338
Social Democratic Labour Party 398
socialism, socialists 218, 252, 263, 272
Society for the Encouragement of Spiritual and Ethical Reading 272, 307, 315
Society for the Study and Dissemination of the Works of L.N. Tolstoy 426
Society of True Freedom 423, 433
Soden, Germany 140, 141
Sokolov, Ivan 94
Solovetsky prison-monastery, White Sea 16–18, 277, 338, 448
Solovyov, Evgeny 13
Solovyov, Professor Sergey Mikhailovich 267
History of Russia from the Earliest Times 215–16
‘Public Lectures about Peter the Great’ 215
Solovyov, Vladimir Sergeyevich 267, 272
Sophia the Martyr, St 155
South Kensington Museum, London (later Victoria and Albert Museum) 143
Southbourne, Hampshire (later Dorset) 406
Sovetskaya pravda (newspaper) 425
Soviet Supreme Court 446
Soviet Union, collapse of (1991) 7, 451, 452
Sovnarkom (Council of Ministers) 426, 441
Sparrow Hills, Moscow 55, 62, 292
Spasskoye-Lutovinovo estate 130, 144
Spencer, Herbert 321
Spiridon, St 51 ‘Spiritual Unity (the Church of Lev Tolstoy)’ 452
Stadling, Jonas 338–40, 341–2
Stalin, Joseph (Iosif Dzhugashvili) 112, 284, 434, 436, 437, 439, 442, 443
Stalinism 433
Starley, John 358
Starogladkovskaya, Chechnya 99, 100, 101, 103, 104, 105, 107, 130
staroobryadtsy (‘adherents of the old rite’) 270
Stary Yurt fortress 101–2
Stasov, Vladimir 267, 269
Stasyulevich, Alexander 183
Stead, William 332, 346–7
Stendhal, 166
Sterne, Laurence
A Sentimental Journey 76, 87
Tristram Shandy 98
Stettin, Prussia 135
Stickney, Asenath 341
Stockham, Dr Alice Bunker 328, 341
Tokology: A Book for Every Woman 327
Stockholm Peace Congress (1909
cancelled) 411
Stockholm Tageblatt 411
Stolypin, Prime Minister 419
Strakhov, Nikolay 181, 186–7, 197, 198, 206, 219, 222, 226, 230, 231, 233, 234, 236, 246, 253, 256, 257–8, 266, 267, 270, 274, 277, 281, 283, 285, 288, 328, 332, 343
‘The Woman Question’ 186, 187
Stranniks (‘wanderers’) 4, 193, 271, 276, 314, 332, 349
Strauss, David Friedrich
Life of Jesus 257
Old and New Faith 257
Strauss, Johann, Jr 129
Strauss, Victor von 354
Strindberg, August 347
Among French Peasants 347
‘Stundists’ 385
Subbotniks (‘Sabbatarians’) 290, 320
Sukhotin, Mikhail Sergeyevich (T’s son-inlaw) 367, 421
Sukhotin, Sergey Mikhailovich 243
Sukhotina, Maria Alexeyevna (née Dyakova) 243
Sukhotina-Tolstaya, Tatyana Lvovna (Tanya
T’s daughter) 176, 189, 313, 350, 425
birth 174
and T’s fame 6
teaches at T’s school 198
character 202
education 203, 234, 261, 291
Christmas celebration 206
goes into Moscow society 297, 311, 314
famine relief 336, 340
involvement in Tolstoyan movement 356–7
and Chekhov 370
marriage to Mikhail Sukhotin 367
helps the Molokans 376
miscarriages/stillbirths 35, 389, 403
birth of T’s favourite granddaughter 35, 403
and T’s secret will 412
and T’s death 412
tense relations with her mother 417
posts bail for Bulgakov and Makovický 422