Tolstoy

Decembrist Uprising (1825), Decembrists 13, 75, 86, 93, 142, 164–5, 266–9, 274–5, 276, 287, 314

Diaghilev, Sergey: visits T 5, 9

Diary of a Writer (journal) 249

Dickens, Charles 142, 204, 315, 349

David Copperfield 76, 87, 98

Dombey and Son 274

Little Dorrit 130

Martin Chuzzlewit 274

Dietetic Reformer and Vegetarian Messenger, The (journal) 334

Dijon 133

dikost 48, 49, 60, 123

Dillon, Emile 338, 339

Diogenes 77–8

divorce in Imperial Russia 241–2, 243

Dmitry of Rostov, St 192

Dobrinya Nikitich (bogatyr) 65, 66

Dobrolyubov, Alexander 131

Dole, Nathan Haskell 317

Dolgorukov, Prince Pyotr 153, 275, 298, 305

Domna (Yasnaya Polyana servant) 264

Domostroi 80

Don river 217

Dora (English governess to the Tolstoys) 204

Dorpat University 70

Dostoyevskaya, Anna Grigorievna 316

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 167, 229, 246

arrested and imprisoned 92, 93

a member of the Petrashevsky Circle 92

Siberian exile 93, 252, 283

T’s main rival 93, 249

differing worldview from T’s 93

tirade against T 249–50

spiritual crisis 252, 283

almost meets T 267

and Pushkin celebrations (1880) 282–3

death 283

The Brothers Karamazov 282, 393–4

Crime and Punishment 169

Diary of a Writer 249

The Gambler 89

Notes from the House of the Dead 174, 283

‘White Nights’ 92

Dresden 143

Drozhzhin, Evdokim 353–4

Druzhinin, Alexander 134

Dukhobors (‘wrestlers in the name of the Holy Spirit’) 6, 271, 355–7, 364–5, 385, 386, 411, 448

emigration to Canada 376, 378–9, 380, 430–31

Duma 401, 419

Dumas, Alexandre 179, 221

The Count of Monte-Cristo 75

The Fencing Teacher 75

The Three Musketeers 75

Dumas, Alexandre, fils 220–21

La Dame aux camélias 221

L’Homme-femme 220, 221

Dyakov, Dmitry Alexeyevich 130, 184, 206, 243, 244

Dyakova, Darya Alexandrovna (Dolly) 184

Dyakova, Maria Dmitrievna (Masha) 206

Dyakova, Sofya Robertovna (née Voitkevich

‘Sofesh’) 244

Dzerzhinsky, Felix 428, 434

E

Eastern Orthodoxy 53

‘Eastern Question’ 247

Edison, Thomas 409, 410

education

lack of adequate public education in Russia 140

T teaches village children to read and write 3, 4, 9

T puts together an ABC and reading primers 4, 188–201

T’s school at Yasnaya Polyana 4, 93, 140, 141, 144, 145, 146, 190, 197–8, 251, 340, 433, 436, 440

T aims to provide the masses with high-quality reading matter 17

T’s child-centred approach 76, 140, 146, 201

T learns about pedagogy abroad 141–4

T permitted to found a pedagogical journal 144

T’s growing network of unconventional schools 3, 145

T’s teachers 145, 146, 148

ill-conceived university reforms 145–6

relationship between T and pupils 146–7

Ministry of Internal Affairs’ perception of T’s schools 147

secret police file on T 147

secret police raid Yasnaya Polyana 148

importance of his work to T 148

T closes his schools down 148, 160

T’s article condemning university education 163

T’s views on his children’s education 189

local teachers study T’s methods 200, 230–31

T’s ‘On Popular Education’ 200, 233

inconclusive trial of his teaching method 233

Sonya’s dislike of T’s obsession with pedagogy 235–6

Edward VII, King 307

Eikhenbaum, Boris 439

Elders (startsy) 4, 6, 10, 17, 66, 254–8, 280, 290, 346, 384, 393, 394, 309, 412

Eliot, George 315

Elizabeth, Empress of Russia 16, 151

Elizaveta Fyodorovna, Grand Duchess 339

Elpidin, Mikhail 305, 317, 343

Emancipation of Serfdom Act (1861) 143, 145, 213, 218

Emerson, Ralph Waldo 314

Engelgardt, Varvara von 22

English Club, Moscow 19

Enlightenment 77

Enukidze, Avel 434

Epictetus 314

Ergolskaya, Elizaveta Alexandrovna 67, 87–8

Ergolskaya, Tatyana Alexandrovna (‘Toinette’) 55, 82, 129, 152, 181, 206

taken in as an orphaned child by T’s grandparents 42

importance in T’s life 32, 88, 122

on T as his mother’s favourite 33

appearance 42, 204

character 42, 205

and corporal punishment of serfs 42–3, 63–4

love for Nikolay Ilyich Tolstoy 43, 166, 233

selflessly refuses Nikolay Ilyich’s proposal 43

and Nikolay Ilyich’s death 58

takes Tolstoy children to Bolshoi Theatre 59

and Vladimir Yushkov 67

goes to live with sister Elizaveta 67

on T as an ‘incomprehensible creature’ 77

T’s promise to her 78–9

brought back to live at Yasnaya Polyana 87

entreats T to take up writing 88

correspondence with T 96–7, 103

beseeches T to take himself in hand 97

T reunited with her while in the army 107

looks after T’s brother Dmitry 123

and secret police raid of Yasnaya Polyana 148

and Sonya 156

and T’s views on adultery 221–2

death and funeral 233–4, 239

Ermolov, General Alexey 100, 102, 104

Esperantisto (journal) 361

Esperanto 361

European revolutions (1848) 86, 91, 92

Europeanisation 21, 24, 218

Evangelists 386

Evpatoria, Battle of (1855) 112

Evpraksiya (Dunechka Temyasheva’s nanny) 39

Ewing, Thomas: Principles of Elocution 195

F

famine

threat of in Samara province in 1873 4, 211–13

of 1892 5, 9, 335–40, 354, 401