Tolstoy

Balaclava, Battle of (1854) 110

Balbek river 112

Balkan Question 249

Balkans 247, 249

Ballou, Adin: Catechism of Non-violence 341

Baltic Fleet 392, 400–401

Balzac, Honoré de 133

Baptists 272, 386, 429

Barclay de Tolly, General Count Mikhail 171

Bartenev, Pyotr 168–71, 173, 266

Baryatinskaya, Princess Elena 396

Baryatinsky, General Prince Alexander 102

Bashkir people 4, 36, 188, 191, 208–11, 238, 269, 273, 368

Bashkirian steppe 152, 191

Batumi, Black Sea 379

Bayreuth 358

Bazykin, Timofey (T’s illegitimate son) 138

Bazykina, Aksinya 138, 139, 158, 159, 264

Becker, Jakob 370

Beckett, Samuel 184

Beesly, Edward Spencer 262–3

Beethoven, Ludwig van 136, 371, 372

‘Ode to Joy’ (from Symphony N0.9) 439

Piano Trios, Op.70 95

Violin Sonata N0.9 (Kreutzer) 325

Begichevka, Ryazan province 337, 339, 340, 342, 354

Beguny (‘runners’) 271

Belinsky, Vissarion 92, 105, 121, 131

Bell, The (newspaper) 142

Berdyaev, Nikolay 3, 270–71, 310, 424

The Origin of Russian Communism 79

Berezov, Tobolsk province 355

Berlin 141, 144

Bern, Switzerland 134

Bernard, St 134

Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Jacques-Henri: Paul et Virginie 98

Bers, Alexander Andreyevich (Sasha Sonya’s brother) 162, 239, 243, 266

Bers, Dr Andrey Estafievich (Sonya’s father)

birth (1808) 151

family doctor to the Turgenevs 151

enters the civil service 151

marriage to Lyubov Islavina 151–2

loses patience with T 163

involved in publication of War and Peace 166–7, 168, 170–71

death 184

Bers, Elizaveta Andreyevna (Liza; Sonya’s sister) 152, 153, 158, 243

Bers, Evstafy Iogannovich (Gustav; Sonya’s grandfather) 151, 161

Bers, Ivan (originally Johann Bärs or Behrs

Sonya’s great-grandfather) 150–51

Bers, Lyubov Alexandrovna (née Islavina

Sonya’s mother) 150, 207

marriage to Andrey Bers 151–2

her children 152

and Sonya’s marriage to T 154

birth of grandson Sergey 162–3

T stays with her 266

death 323

Bers, Pyotr Andreyevich (Petya; Sonya’s brother) 199, 268, 292

Bers, Stepan Andreyevich (‘Uncle Styopa’

Sonya’s brother) 172, 174–5, 207, 208, 211, 238, 268

Bers, Vladimir Andreyevich (Volodya

Sonya’s brother) 155, 231

Bers, Vyacheslav Andreyevich (Sonya’s brother) 150, 268

Bessarabia 108, 337

Bibikov, Alexander 161, 219–20

Bible in Russian

complete Bible 272

New Testament 271–2, 292

Billington, James, Librarian of Congress 451

Biryukov, Pavel (‘Posha’) 75, 315, 326, 350, 356, 364–7, 379, 402, 407, 419, 420, 422

Biryulevo, near Moscow 156

‘Bloody Sunday’ (9 January 1905) 401

bogatyrs 2, 4, 65, 66, 193, 194, 397

Bogdanovich-Lutovinova, Varvara

Nikolayevna (illegitimate daughter and ward of Turgenev’s mother) 151

Bolsheviks 398, 423, 424, 426, 428–35, 438, 439, 441

Bolshevism 424, 430, 435

Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow 59, 188, 372, 373, 438, 450

Bonch-Bruevich, Vladimir 379, 430

Bondarev, Timofey 318, 320

The Triumph of the Farmer or Industry and Parasitism 318, 320

Boot, Alexander 7

Borodino, Battle of (1812) 50, 171–2, 173, 179

Botkin, Nikolay 184

Botkin, Dr Sergey 245

Botkin, Vasily 184

Botkin family 134

Bouffes Parisiens 133

Boyer, Paul 68

Brezhnev, Leonid 446–7

British Museum, London 379, 409

Bronze Horseman, St Petersburg 267, 268

Brotherhood Church, Croydon, Surrey 362–3, 364, 375, 406

Brotherhood Publishing Company 364, 377–8

Brussels 143

Bucharest 107, 108, 109

Buddhism 184, 257, 305, 355

Bulgakov, Valentin 345, 411, 419–23, 426, 429, 430, 434, 436, 450

Bulgarian atrocities (1876) 177

Burnaya fort 102

Burnouf, Eugène 257

Buzuluk 210, 211

bylinas 65, 193, 194

Byzantine Empire 34, 191, 270

C

Calvin, John 288

Canada, Dukhobors emigrate to 376, 378–9, 380, 430–31

Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Moscow 62

Cathedral of St Sophia, Constantinople 62

Catherine I, Empress of Russia 16

Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia 2, 22, 23, 70, 85, 99, 101, 127, 215, 254, 343

Nakaz (Instruction) 81

‘Greek Project’ 99

Catholic Church indulgences 53

Caucasus 70, 125, 134, 352

T’s brother Nikolay serves in 84, 97, 130

T travels to and joins the army 98–107, 365

Levitsky’s photographs 126

climate 204

mineral springs 208

Khilkov exiled 353, 364

military conscription in 356

T’s son Andrey absconds to 368

T’s daughter Sasha serves in 425

Caves Monastery, Kiev 194, 277

Cedarville, near Wichita, Kansas 259

censorship 86, 92, 105, 106, 111–12, 115, 116, 121–2, 126, 137, 167, 170, 213, 300, 305, 308–9, 317, 320, 323, 324, 328–9, 333, 336, 343, 354, 361, 374, 375, 377, 395, 418, 423, 432, 441, 444, 451

Censorship Committee 396

Chaikovsky, Nikolay 259

Chambéry, France 134

Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 16

Cheboksary 69

Chechens

admiration for T 7

T writes about 7, 106

outwitting of General Ermolov 100

Russian guerrilla warfare against 103, 365

Cheka 428, 433, 434

Chekhov, Anton 66, 86, 376

T admires his short stories 296

regards T as Russia’s greatest living artist 296

on The Kreutzer Sonata 329–30, 333

studies Sakhalin penal colony 330

admires T’s famine relief work 335–6, 338

steals Tanya’s heart at Yasnaya Polyana 370

in the Crimea 379, 381, 395

tuberculosis 381