and The Kreutzer Sonata 330–31
famine relief 336–7, 339, 340
attitude to Tolstoyans 350, 357
defaces Tolstoyan group photograph 357
‘suicide attempts’ 357–8
neglects Sasha 368
piano-playing 95, 370
and T’s excommunication 390
inventory of library and T’s archive 402
short-sightedness 403
undergoes surgery 404
increasingly hostile to Chertkov 410, 411, 412
finds ‘The Devil’ manuscript 410
and T’s royalties 410
threatens to poison herself 411
paranoia and hysteria 411
and Chertkov’s access to T’s diaries 411–12
tries to drown herself after T leaves her 412
and T’s death 412
attends T’s funeral 413
relations with her children 417
share of the Yasnaya Polyana estate 417
rights dispute 418, 420
wants Yasnaya Polyana to be bought for the nation 418–19, 421
marks her fiftieth wedding anniversary 420
land handed over to peasants 420–21
state pension 421, 425
steadily loses interest in life 421
hands over keys to chests of T’s manuscripts 425
and Sovnarkom 426
and Sergeyenko’s rudeness 427
death (1919) 427, 432
scholarly articles dedicated to her memory 7
first Russian biography of (2010) 7
‘Some Girls Came to See Masha’ 196
Tolstaya, Sofya Nikolayevna (née Filosofova; T’s daughter-in-law) 325
Tolstaya, Tatyana Lvovna (Tanya) see Sukhotina-Tolstaya, Tatyana
Tolstaya, Varvara Lvovna (T’s daughter) 239, 245
Tolstaya, Varvara Sergeyevna (Varya
T’s niece
wife of Vladimir Vasiliev) 368
Tolstaya, Vera Sergeyevna (T’s niece
wife of Abdurashid Sarafov) 244, 368
Tolstoy, Alexey Lvovich (Alyosha; T’s son) 292, 311, 322–3, 358, 404
Tolstoy, Alexey Konstantinovich (Alyosha) 64
Tolstoy, Andrey Ivanovich (‘Big Nest’
T’s great-grandfather) 18
Tolstoy, Andrey Kharitonovich 14
Tolstoy, Andrey Lvovich (T’s son) 202, 244, 258, 326, 368, 400, 403, 404, 406, 412, 417, 421
Tolstoy, Dmitry Andreyevich 198, 303, 305
Tolstoy, Dmitry Nikolayevich (‘Mitenka’
T’s brother) 84, 90
at Yasnaya Polyana 32–3, 61
education 70, 73, 81
mistreats his serf 71
fervent Christian 71, 72
character 71, 240
appearance 71, 124
friendship with Lyubov Sergeyevna 72–3
artistically gifted 73
Sergey his polar opposite 73
inherits Shcherbachevka estate 82, 85
works at Ministry of Justice 85
T visits him at his estate 107
illness 123, 124, 140
common-law wife 123, 124, 244
death 71, 119, 123, 124
Tolstoy, Fyodor Ivanovich, the ‘American’ 48–51, 82, 89, 166, 187
Tolstoy, Grigory Sergeyevich (Grisha
T’s nephew) 148
Tolstoy, Ilya Andreyevich (T’s grandfather) 166
marries after army career 18
properties 18–19
hospitable and generous 19
lack of education 19
gambling 19, 89
poor business deals 19–20, 38
dismissed from his post on corruption charges 20, 57
bankruptcy 57
death 20–21, 57
Tolstoy, Ilya Vladimirovich (grandson of Alexandra’s brother Ilya) 445
Tolstoy, Ilya Lvovich (T’s son) 176, 189, 203, 211, 436
birth 174, 205
on T’s character 11–12
and T’s school at Yasnaya Polyana 198
character 202, 313
appearance 202
education 202, 261, 264, 291, 311, 325
Christmas at Yasnaya Polyana 206
piano-playing ‘for Prokhor’ 262
trip to the steppe (1878) 273
proposes to Sofya Filosofova 325
marriage to Sofya 326, 367
T appalled at his comfortable lifestyle 326
always short of money 368
and T’s death 412
share of the Yasnaya Polyana estate 417
Tolstoy, Ivan Lvovich (Vanechka; T’s son) 326, 331, 339, 357, 358, 360, 362, 417, 445
Tolstoy, Ivan Petrovich 17, 18, 277
Tolstoy Jubilee Committee 436
Tolstoy, Lev Lvovich (T’s son) 12, 189, 325, 403, 421, 436
birth 174
character 202
trip to the steppe (1878) 273
education 291, 311, 336
constant arguments with T 326, 368, 404
Samara estate 331, 336
mental health 336, 368
marriage 368
share of the Yasnaya Polyana estate 417
works for Red Cross in World War I 421
detests Chertkov 432
publishes The Truth About My Father 432
Tolstoy, Lev Nikolayevich 348, 391
birth in Yasnaya Polyana (28 August 1828) 2, 31–5
death of his mother (1830) 32, 35
his education 44, 47, 59, 64, 70, 74–9, 81
nicknames 33, 37, 39, 154
name 33–4
memory of being tightly swaddled 35
relationship with his father 36–7
love of horses 37–8
happy childhood 47–8, 55–6
earliest extant manuscript 51–2
family moves to Moscow (1837) 56–7, 57
death of his father (1837) 58, 59
locked up and threatened by his tutor 59, 64
tries to fly 60
death of his grandmother 60
questions his faith 63, 74–5
and Ilya of Murom 65–6
appearance 12, 66, 78, 98, 122, 143, 229, 289, 366
unhappy years in Kazan 68
begins to keep a diary (1847) 9, 68–9, 79–80
visits brothels 73, 126
Sergey influences his wayward behaviour 73–4
Rousseau’s influence 76–7
rescued from drowning by peasants 78
venereal disease 79, 80
leaves university without taking a degree 81
inheritance 82, 84, 119
hunting 85, 96, 112, 139, 181, 229, 239, 253, 282, 314, 348
gambling 1, 20, 31, 88, 89, 90, 96, 97, 102, 103, 109, 112, 117, 135, 139–40, 159, 205
learns music from a German pianist 93
efforts to improve Russian literacy see under education
and the gypsies 94–5, 96
piano-playing 95, 103, 370
takes advantage of his serf girls 3, 95–6
begins to think of writing fiction 97
in the Caucasus 98–107
in the army 3, 36, 66, 102, 103, 104, 106, 107–17, 119, 128
disappointment at missing the St George Cross 104, 106
Childhood published and well received (1852) 105, 106
commissioned 107
Crimean War 107–16, 158, 247
in Bucharest 108, 109
on the founding of a new religion 113
marked for life by Sebastopol 119
relationship with Turgenev 119–22, 125, 132, 133, 135, 139, 144, 176, 268–9
relationship with Alexandrine Tolstoya 122–3
and Dmitry’s death 124
contract with The Contemporary 125, 131, 137
resigns from the army 130–31, 132
visits western Europe 132–5, 141–4
forehead scarred by a bear 139
death of brother Nikolay 141–2, 358
Justice of the Peace 144–5, 147, 159
peasant dress 4, 5, 11, 12, 147
secret police file on him 147
koumiss cure 152, 208
marriage to Sonya 149, 150, 154–6, 157, 163–4, 183, 185–6, 202, 236, 241, 243–4, 289, 299, 301, 311, 312, 331, 349, 357, 368, 405, 411, 420, 432
decision to change writing style 158–9
interest in bees 161, 162
birth of son Sergey 162, 163
breaks arm pursuing a rabbit 167
his library 176–7, 189, 191
health 177, 182, 210, 228, 349, 379, 381, 387, 394, 396
learns ancient Greek 181, 190, 191
death fixation 185, 231, 240, 322, 323, 389, 451
on his children 201–2
treatment of his children 202–3
property in Samara 207–12
abandoned Peter the Great novel 214–18, 222
portraits 228–30, 298, 308, 319, 325, 391–2, 414
death of son Petya 231
death of Aunt Toinette 233–4
death of son Nikolay 237
death of Aunt Polina 240
initiates sister Masha’s divorce 241–2
spiritual crisis of 1880s 121, 252, 332
newfound religious fervour 252–4, 258
visits Optina Pustyn Monastery 253–7, 258