Tolstoy

alarmed at T’s illness 381

telephone conversations with T 349, 395

T on his genius 404

death 400

‘A Nightmare’ 383

The Seagull 374

‘Supplementary Questions to the Personal Forms of the Statistical Census Suggested by Antosha Chekhonte’ 296

Chernyshevsky, Nikolay 131–2, 137, 148, 284

The Aesthetic Relations of Art to Reality 132

What Is to Be Done? 219, 305, 398

Chertkov, Alexander 167–8

Chertkov, Grigory 167–8

Chertkov, Vladimir Grigorievich 6, 307, 317, 327, 391, 423

background 306, 331, 350

education 306

army career 306, 352

appearance 306

character 306

T’s closest friend 6, 306

decision to devote his life to the peasantry 306–7

religious views in tune with T’s 307–8

correspondence with T 308, 314–15, 377, 407

court connections 308, 324

The Intermediary set up 315

his wealth 315

opens a bookshop in Moscow 315

influence over T’s affairs 7, 349, 410

vegetarian 350

visits Drozhzhin 353

group portrait of male Tolstoyans 356–7

T finds a dacha for him and his family 360

displaces Sonya in T’s affections 7, 362

evidence on persecution of sectarians in Russia 364

his life’s work 364, 377, 440

appeals for help for the Dukhobors 365

apartment searched and sent into exile 365

exiled in England 366, 422

marriage to Anna Diterikhs 367

and Goldenweiser 371

publication of T’s works 378, 395, 397, 399, 406–7, 421–2

sets up Free Word Press in Purleigh, Essex 378

Sergey Tolstoy visits in Essex 379

moves Free Word Press to St Petersburg 401

gradual return to Russia 402

visits Yasnaya Polyana 405, 405

sets up Free Age Press in Christchurch, Hampshire (now Dorset), 406

Tolstoy archive 407, 422

lack of interference from Russian government 407

seeks a buyer for Yasnaya Polyana 417–18

and T’s eightieth birthday 410

ordered to leave Tula province 410

Sonya’s hostility 410, 411, 412, 417

and T’s death at Astapovo station 412

biased account of T’s last days 418

copyright issue 418, 432

canonical edition of T’s complete collected works 422, 426, 432, 437, 440–42, 443

supports war effort in World War I 422

obtains release of T’s daughter Alexandra from the Lubyanka 427–8

opposition to the Bolsheviks 429, 432

writes testimonials for Tolstoyans 429

writes impassioned ‘Letter to English Friends’ 429–30

forms Co-operative Association 432

refusal to compromise his beliefs 433

the subject of several denunciations 433

raided by the Cheka 434

avoids exile 434

and Stalin 437, 441, 448

ill-health 440

death 442

named blackened in print 450

Chertkov, Vladimir Vladimirovich (Dima) 360

Chertkova, Anna Konstantinovna (‘Galya’

née Diterikhs) 367, 402, 408, 410

Chertkova, Elizaveta Ivanovna 307, 366, 384–5, 402

Chertkov family 420

Chertkov Public Library, Moscow 167, 168, 305

Cheti-Menei (‘monthly readings’) 191, 192

chinovnik (representative of imperial bureaucracy) 6

Chopin, Fryderyk François 262, 371

Prelude in D Flat Major 261

Christchurch, Hampshire (now Dorset) 406, 407, 408

Christianity 258

Christian teaching 4–5

T’s views on 5

Russian Christianisation 191

Dostoyevsky embraces 252

T’s and Alexeyev’s discussions 263

T’s discussions with Molokans 302

morality as its cornerstone 310

Matthew Arnold on 311

practical 341

Tolstoyan 352

and redemptive love 373

spiritual essence of 374

resurgence of 454

Church Fathers 255, 277, 384

Church News 389, 390

Church of England 310

Church of the Nativity of Our Lady, Kremlin, Moscow 155

Church Slavonic 191, 197, 263, 271, 286, 287, 384, 385

Circassians 100, 104, 405

Circus-Theatre, St Petersburg 129

civil service Table of Ranks 90, 94, 151

Clarens, Switzerland 133, 134

Co-operative Association for the Study and Dissemination of the Works of Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy 432

Cold War 447

collectivisation 447, 448

Collins, Wilkie

The Law and the Lady 236

A Woman in White 204

Commissariat of People’s Enlightenment 433, 436

Common Cause, The (revolutionary émigré journal) 305

Communards 265

communism, collapse of 454

Communist Party 433, 439

Central Committee 434, 437, 443, 447

Propaganda and Agitation Department 442

Comte, Auguste 321

Confucius 311

Congress of Religious Sects (June 1920) 431

Constantinople 270

Contemporary, The (literary journal) 105, 111, 115, 116, 120, 121, 125, 126, 128, 131, 132, 134, 135, 137, 142, 148, 253

contraception 245

Cornfield, The (magazine) 377, 378

Cossacks 100–101, 364, 379, 448

Counter Reformation 53

Coxe, William 127

Crimea

Catherine the Great’s tour 22

conquered by Catherine the Great 99

T and Leonid Urusov visit (1885) 322

Chekhov lives in 379

T recuperates in 394–5, 410

Crimean Tatars 22

Crimean War (1853–6) 107–16, 130, 158, 165, 247, 257, 352

Crosby, Ernest 362

Custine, Marquis de 86, 94–5

Cynics (Greek Philosophers) 77

Cyprus 378

Cyril, St 53

Cyrillic alphabet 190

Cyrus the Great 190

D

Daghestan 100

highlanders 365

Daily Telegraph 338, 339

Dante Alighieri 387

Dargomyzhsky, Alexander: Rusalka 129

Darwin, Charles: Origin of Species 310

Davy, Humphry 195

Dawn, The (Slavophile journal) 181, 186