Tolstoy

St Isaac’s Square, St Petersburg 267, 269

St James’s Hall, Piccadilly, London 142

St John, Arthur 363, 378

St Peter and Paul Cathedral, St Petersburg 29

St Peter and Paul Fortress, St Petersburg 16, 92–3, 266–7

St Petersburg (Petrograd)

founding of 2, 16, 215

Maria Nikolayevna Volkonskaya visits 29

T visits 89–92, 120–29, 136–7, 144, 266–8, 280, 366

‘White Nights’ 92

T leaves behind a number of creditors 92

Russian military headquarters 110

T sent there as a courier 117

T in a naval munitions unit 123

European-looking 125

Sonya’s trip (1891) 330–31

St Petersburg Conservatoire 167

St Petersburg Gazette (newspaper) 376

St Petersburg Italian Opera 137

St Petersburg University 70, 89, 259

Saint-Thomas, Prospère 59–60, 64

Sakhalin penal colony 330

Samara 206–213, 227, 229, 266, 306, 335

T lives like a Bashkirian nomad in 147–8, 188

koumiss cure 148, 152, 208, 209, 228, 269

Yasnaya Polyana raided while T in 148

Tolstoy family visits their estate 4, 207, 210–211, 226, 238, 274

T relishes the lack of amenities 208

the Bashkirs 208–210

harvests 210, 212, 234

famine 212, 213, 228, 294, 336, 337

T’s letter in the Moscow Gazette 212–13

aid donations 213, 294

T and Sergey Lvovich visit (1874) 234

Bashkir horse race 238

T enlarges his estate 266, 267, 280

T visits the Molokans 272, 290

Mackenzie Wallace meets Molokans and Bashkirs 273

T goes there for the last time 302

police surveillance of T 302–3

Lev Lvovich receives the estate 331

famine relief 340

Samara, Bishop of 303

Samarin, Pyotr 239

Samarkand 208–9

Samson-Himmelstierna, Hermann von 387

Sand, George 109, 126

Sarafov, Abdurashid 368

Sarolea, Charles 435

Savina, Maria 324

Schiller, Friedrich: The Robbers 76, 87

Schmidt, Maria Alexandrovna 351, 410

Schopenhauer, Arthur 184, 349, 373

Schubert, Franz 371

Schumann, Robert 371

Dichterliebe 371

Schuyler, Eugene 49, 175–7, 189–90, 198, 217–18, 281

Schweizerhof Hotel, Lucerne 134–5

Scott, Sir Walter 179

Scriabin, Alexander 361

Scythians 191

Sebastopol 322

siege of (1854–5) 109–12, 114–16, 119, 128, 149, 181, 236, 257, 444

sectarianism

government suppression of 167

peasants drawn towards 263

T becomes increasingly drawn to sectarians 269

T first meets ‘Molokans’ 269, 272

influx of Protestantism 270

schism in the Church caused by Old Believers 270

Old Believers dealt with ruthlessly 270

Berdyaev on 270–71

other sectarian groups 271, 290, 352, 385

religious dissenters allowed to practise their faith without fear of persecution (1906) 271

T see Jesus as sectarian 286

T first meets Syutayev 291

and Bondarev 319–20

T takes up the cause of persecuted sectarians 348–9, 376

T first meets Dukhobors 355–6

Chertkov collects evidence on sectarians’ persecution 364

third Missionary Congress opposes sects 385–6

Sekhin, Epifan (Epishka) 101

Semevsky, Mikhail 216, 268

Serafim of Sarov, St. 398

Serbo-Turkish War 247, 248, 299

Serbs 246

serfs

ruled over by Westernised nobility 2

T takes advantage of his serf girls 3

T’s attitude towards serfdom 3, 128

Volkonsky’s serfs at Yasnaya Polyana 26, 27–8, 36, 46, 93

Nikolay Ilyich’s serfs 36, 38

storytellers 40

corporal punishment 42–3, 63–4

at Christmas 46

building of Cathedral of Christ the Saviour 62

Nikolskoye estate serfs 82

Pirogovo estate serfs 82

Shcherbachevka estate serfs 82, 85

T inherits Yasnaya Polyana and 300 serfs 82, 84

Turgenev’s oblique criticism of serfdom 87

T’s emancipation plans 128, 129

T’s serfs transfer from corvée system to quit rent 136

T frees all his house serfs 136, 145

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

abolition of serfdom 3, 27, 92, 127, 128, 131, 147

krepostniks (defenders of serfdom) 145, 218

see also peasantry

Sergeyenko, Pyotr 423, 427

Sergiev Posad 278

Sergius of Radonezh, St, Patron Saint of Russia 192, 278

‘Sermon on the Mount’ 76, 286, 301, 309, 311, 373

Serzhputovsky, General 108

Shabunin, Private Vasily 183, 407–8

Shah, Muhammed 211

Shakers 341

Shaker Answer, The 341

Shakespeare, William 121, 180, 246

King Lear 331–2

Shaliapin, Fyodor 371

Shamil, Imam 100, 365

Shaw, George Bernard 375–6, 409

Shchegolenok, Vasily 293

Shcherbachevka, Kursk province 82, 85, 90, 107, 124

Shcherbatova, Praskovya 137–8

Shcherbatsky, Prince 248

Shentalinsky, Vitaly 427

Sheremetev, Boris Petrovich 15, 26

Shklovsky, Viktor 439–40

Shmigaro, Dr 163, 167

Shuvalova, Countess 324

Sibelius, Jean 363

Siberia

Decembrist Uprising leaders exiled 75, 165

Dostoyevsky’s sentence 93

Chernyshevsky exiled 148, 284

Poles deported to 163

T’s ancestor Vasily Gorchakov sent to 275–6

Stalin in exile 284

Russian penal system 350

Lenin’s exile 366, 398

Tolstoyan commune in 445, 446

Silistra, Bulgaria 108–9

Simeon Stylites the Younger, St 192

Simferopol 111

Sitka Island, southern Alaska 50

Skakuny (‘jumpers’) 271 Škarvan, Albert 363, 378

Skoptsy (‘self-castrators’) 271, 385

Slavophiles 124, 125, 181, 216, 228, 247, 253

Slavic Bazaar Hotel, Moscow 247–8

‘Slavic Committee’ 247

Slavic Congress, second (Moscow, 1867) 247

Smolensk province 306, 338

Social Democratic Labour Party 398

socialism, socialists 218, 252, 263, 272