Tolstoy

conscription 61

women peasants rescue T from drowning 78

T first focuses on peasants in his writing 130

lack of education 140

treated almost as a sub-human species 140, 145

‘reciters’ 193, 293

lack of statistical knowledge about 213

innate conservatism 219

loyalty to the Romanovs 219

Alexeyev shares T’s wish to improve their lives 262

colonising new lands 266

dire poverty 336

legendary piety 384

some of T’s land handed over to peasants 420–21

see also serfs

Penza province 185, 188, 194

People’s Commissar for Justice 431

perestroika 451

Perno, Ludwig 407, 408

Perov, Vasily 229

Persia, Persians 99, 210–211

Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich 190

Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia 226, 276

founding of St Petersburg 2, 15–16

and the first Count Tolstoy 15, 16, 277

T’s abandoned project 17, 177, 180–81, 214–18, 222, 274, 286

Europeanisation programme 15, 21, 24, 218

reforms 24, 254, 277

lifelong service of nobility 85

Table of Ranks 90, 383

son held in Peter and Paul Fortress 92–3

character 214, 217, 286

and Sergey Solovyov’s history of Russia 215, 216

Azov campaigns 217

and Eugene Schuyler 217–18

replaces Patriarchate with the Holy Synod 269–70, 382–3

and the clergy 383, 384

Petrashevsky Circle 92, 267

Petrograd see St

Petersburg Petropavlovsk (Russian flagship) 399

Petrov, Grigory 392

The Gospel as the Foundation of Life 387

Petrozavodsk 215

Petrusha (Nikolay Ilyich’s servant) 37, 39–40, 45, 58

Phillips, Annie 265

Pimen, Father (monk at Optina Pustyn Monastery) 255–6

Pirogov, Nikolay 151

Pirogova, Anna 219–20

Pirogovo estate, Tula province 38, 39, 57–8, 61, 82, 84–5, 136, 186, 244, 368, 400

Plato 190, 314

Plekhanov, Georgy 435

Pleshcheyev, Alexey 329

Plutarch 196

Pobedonostsev, Konstantin 288, 288, 289, 303, 324, 329, 331, 353, 365, 376, 386–7, 390, 393, 396

Pogorelsky, Anton: ‘The Black Hen or The Underground Residents’ 64–5

Pokrovskoye estate, Tula province 84, 93, 107, 120, 323

Polish uprisings

1831 91

1863 163

Politburo 434

Polivanov, Lev 291

Polivanov, Sasha 134

Poltava 108

Polytechnical Museum, Moscow 430

Pomerantsev, Yury (‘Yusha’) 360, 361

Popov, Evgeny 354, 356, 359, 367, 408

Popova, Dunyasha (T family housekeeper) 337

Popovsky, Mark 416, 445, 446, 447, 449, 451

Populists 3, 163, 219, 235, 392

Porokhovshchikov, Alexander 247–8

Port Arthur, China 399, 400

Pospelov, Pyotr 442, 443

Potemkin (battleship) 401

Potemkin, Prince Grigory 22

Praskovya Isayevna (housekeeper at Yasnaya Polyana)

Pravda (newspaper) 436, 439, 447

Preobrazhensky Guards 49, 50, 62

Presbyterian Church 273

Prescott, William: History of the Conquest of Mexico 87

Prokhor (carpenter at Yasnaya Polyana) 262

Proletarian, The (periodical) 409

property

T wants to dispense with private property 4

‘Tolstoyans’ give up money and property 5

Sonya and 8

Tolstoyans refuse to give up beliefs 18

division of Tolstoy family property (1847) 81–2

Prugavin preaches on the abolition of private property 291

George’s idea of land as common property 318

T renounces all his property 30, 331

Protestant Reformation 53

Protestantism, Protestants 114, 270, 271, 288, 307, 384–5, 386

Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph 133, 143

The General Idea of Revolution in the Nineteenth Century 143

War and Peace 170

Provisional Government 429

Prugavin, Alexander 290–91, 292, 300, 303

Przhevalsk, Soviet Kirghizia 445

Pugachev, Emelyan 6

Pugachev Rebellion (1774) 215

Purleigh, Essex 375, 378, 379, 406

Pushkin, Alexander 87, 103, 105, 106, 186, 222, 223

celebrations in Moscow (1880) 282–3, 304, 409

Eugene Onegin 76, 86

Journey to Erzerum 102

‘Napoleon’ 64

‘The Queen of Spades’ 88

Tales of Belkin 222

‘To the Sea’ 37

Pustynniki (‘hermits’) 271

Pyatigorsk (‘Five Mountains’) 104–5, 107, 119, 208

Q

Quakers 341, 378, 379

R

Rachmaninov, Sergey 361, 371

Racine, Jean 133

Radishchev, Alexander 127

A Journey from St Petersburg to Moscow 127–8

Radstock, Granville Waldegrave, 3rd Baron 271, 272, 307, 384

Raglan, Lord 110

Ralston, William: ‘Count Leo Tolstoy’s Novels’ 281

Rameau, Jean-Philippe 371

Raphael: Sistine Madonna 404

raskolniki (‘schismatics’) 270

Rayevsky, Ivan 336

Razin, Stenka 6

raznochintsy 6–7, 131–2, 147

Red Army 424, 429, 431, 432

Red Cross 421

Red Librarian (Bolshevik journal) 438

Reeve, Henry 142

Religious-Philosophical Society, St. Petersburg 387, 394, 398

Rembrandt van Rijn: The Return of the Prodigal Son 137

Remizov, Vitaly Borisovich 425

Renan, Ernest: Life of Jesus 257, 269, 374

Repin, Ilya 248, 297, 298, 319, 325, 350, 391–2

Religious Procession in Kursk Province 298, 299, 393

Sectarian 298

Reuss, Professor Edouard 285

Revue des deux mondes 186

Rey, Jules 238, 239, 240, 265

Richardson, Samuel 29

Ries, Theodor 186, 197, 253

Rodionov, Filipp 205

Rodionov, Nikolay 442, 443, 445

Rodionova, Evlampia Matveyevna 205