Volkonsky’s serf orchestra 26, 46, 93, 157
residents 32–3, 38–9, 44
Nikolay Ilyich’s building work 38
servants 44–5, 47
Christmas 45–6
Fyodor Ivanovich in 51
Corporal punishment 63–4
Saint-Thomas visits 64
T spends time there while at university 77, 78
T inherits 82, 84
T sells off parts of his inheritance 31, 90, 102, 106, 107, 109, 112, 205
school 4, 93, 140, 141, 144, 145, 146, 190, 197–8, 251, 340, 433, 436, 440
T returns to live permanently in (late 1850s) 31–2, 119, 123, 138
T’s problems readjusting to his home 129
T throws himself into farming 138, 161, 181
secret police raid 148, 152, 153, 303
Lyubov Alexandrovna and family visit 152–3
Sonya arrives 156–7
accessibility to T’s devotees 175–7
Sonya’s longing for a change of scene 187
extensions built 205–6
bull-goring incidents 227–8
local teachers study T’s teaching methods 200, 230–31
Trinity Sunday 260–61
croquet 265, 312, 419
T helps to put out a fire in the village 302
T starts to divest himself of his property 302
post box 313
‘Ideals of Yasnaya Polyana’ 313
Frey visits 321
division of T’s property 331
Stockham visits 328, 341
T’s study 349–50, 404
music-making 370–71
library inventory 402, 420
T is buried as he had wished 53, 413–14
Sonya hopes it will be bought for the nation 418–19, 421
visitors make pilgrimage to the estate 419
looting 423
Alexandra takes over its running 425
Sovnarkom takes over the estate (May 1918) 426
desperate conditions 426–7
nationalised (1921) 427
as ‘estate-museum’ 433, 440, 444
awarded the Order of Lenin (1978) 444–5
T’s great-great-grandson appointed director (1994) 453
conference debating the significance of T’s excommunication (2006) 453–4
Yasnaya Polyana (journal) 146, 157–8, 160, 230
Yazykov, Sergey (T’s godfather) 58
Yedikule (‘Seven Towers’) Fortress, Constantinople 15, 18
Yenisey river 320, 366
Yunosha, Colonel Pyotr 183
Yuriev, Sergey Andreyevich 299, 300
Yushkova, Pelageya Ilynichna (‘Polina’ née Tolstaya, T’s aunt) 66–7, 70–71, 72, 129, 155, 206, 207, 239, 240
Yushkov, Vladimir Ivanovich (T’s uncle) 66–7, 71
Z
Zadruga publishing house 423, 434
Zagibov, Salavdi 7
Zakharin, Dr Grigory 177, 253
Zakharov, Igor 170
Zamenhof, Lazar: Lingvo internacia. Antau˘parolo kaj plena lernolibro (International Language. Foreword and Complete Textbook) 361
Zaseka station see Yasenki station Zheleznovodsk 105
Zinzendorf, Count Nikolaus Ludwig von 53–4
Znamensky Cathedral, Kursk 298
Zola, Émile 220
Zorndorf, Battle of (1758) 151
Zweig, Stefan 2–3, 438, 439