Tolstoy

becomes a vociferous critic of the Soviet regime 445

name erased from history as a ‘traitor to the motherland’ 445

partially rehabilitated (1977) 445

death in United States (1979) 445

Tolstaya, Alexandra Ivanovna (née Shchetinina, T’s great-grandmother) 18

Tolstaya, Alexandra Andreyevna

(‘Alexandrine’) 55, 137, 148, 184, 266, 328

dikost 48

calls T ‘the roaring lion’ 48–9

relationship with T 122–3

unmarried and childless 122–3

character 123

well connected at court 123, 339

in Switzerland with T 133–4

and T’s gambling 135

T’s closest confidante 160

Shabunin case 183

asks T to tell her about his children 201

and Samara 212

meets Sonya 245

governess to Alexander II’s youngest children 247

T’s 1878 visit 266, 268, 269

and T’s researches 272, 276, 277

argues with T over religion 280

and Dostoevsky 283

T wants her to intercede on Anna Armfeldt’s behalf 312–13

frosty meeting with T (1897) 366, 399–400

reconciliation with T 400

death 399

Tolstaya, Anna Ilyinichna (T’s granddaughter) 326

Tolstaya, Avdotya Maximovna (nee Tugaeva) 50

Tolstaya, Dora (née Westerlund; T’s daughter-in-law) 403

Tolstaya, Ekaterina Vasilievna (previously Artsimovich

Andrey Lvovich’s second wife) 406

Tolstaya, Elena Sergeyevna (T’s niece) 240–41, 243, 280

Tolstaya, Elizaveta Andreyevna 122, 184

Tolstaya, Maria (Masha

T’s daughter) see Obolenskaya, Maria Lvovna

Tolstaya, Maria Mikhailovna (Masha

née Shishkina

Sergey’s wife) 90, 94, 233, 244, 400

Tolstaya, Maria Nikolayevna (née Volkonskaya

T’s mother) death of her mother 23

at Yasnaya Polyana 26–7, 28, 32, 35

education 28–9

character 29, 30

visits St Petersburg 29

death of her fiancé 29

and Louise Henissiénne 30

appearance 30

marriage to Nikolay Ilyich 21, 30, 32

T’s cult of his mother 32

and Nikolay’s character 33

name and nickname for T 33

deeply religious 33

childbirth 34, 35, 42

waits for her husband’s return 35–6

and her mother-in-law 39

and Toinette 43

death (1830) 32, 35

Nikolay Ilyich buried next to her 58

‘The Russian Pamela, or There are No Rules Without Exceptions’ 29

Tolstaya, Maria Nikolayevna (Masha

T’s sister) 125, 152, 268, 404

birth 35, 42

inherits Pirogovo 38

returns to Yasnaya Polyana from Moscow 60–61

relationship with T 61

education 70

leaves Kazan and lives at Yasnaya Polyana 81

property inheritance 81–2

marries Valerian Petrovich 82, 84

childbirth 93

piano-playing 95, 370

Gasha Trubetskaya works for her 96

T gives her his grand piano 103

takes the waters at Pyatigorsk 107

T visits 107, 130, 412, 419

and Turgenev 120, 138–9, 268

looks after Dmitry 123

unhappy marriage 119, 135–6, 241–2, 243

visits Moscow with T 136

travels abroad 141, 142, 155, 241

and secret police raid of Yasnaya Polyana 148

a depressive 240

affair with de Kleen 241, 243

daughter Elena 240–41, 243, 280

death of son Nikolay 280

becomes a nun 280–81, 328, 351

and Syutayev 298

and Vanechka’s death 358

emotional visit to Sonya 419

death 419, 421

Tolstaya, Olga Konstantinovna (née Diterikhs

Andrey’s first wife) 406

Tolstaya, Pelageya Nikolayevna (T’s grandmother) 18–21, 32, 34, 39–41, 46–7, 55, 56, 58–61, 156

Tolstaya, Praskovya Fyodorovna 50

Tolstaya, Sofya Andreyevna (Sonya; née Bers

T’s wife)

birth (1844) 151

education 152

visits Yasnaya Polyana with her mother 152

character 8, 245, 403

appearance 149–50, 297

marriage to T 149, 150, 154–6, 157, 163–4, 183, 202, 236, 243–4, 289, 299, 301, 311, 312, 331, 349, 357, 368, 405, 411, 420, 432

T’s love for her 153, 157

arrival at Yasnaya Polyana 156–7

household duties 6, 157, 204, 207, 231, 239, 279, 299

attitude to peasants 158

T’s copyist 8, 158–9, 164, 174–5, 188, 197, 204, 231, 235–6, 264, 289, 304, 323

autobiography 161–2, 174, 177, 211, 264, 312, 313, 337, 402

pregnancies and childbirth 6, 8, 18, 150, 160–63, 174, 185–8, 237, 239, 245, 258, 279, 289, 291, 292, 299, 301, 312, 326, 327

anxious for T to start another novel after War and Peace 182

name-day party 183

provides emotional stability 3, 185

longing for a change of scenery 187, 279–80

passionate about opera 188

teaches at T’s school 197

Christmas at Yasnaya Polyana 206

and Anna Karenina 222

deaths of her children 231, 237, 239, 322–3, 358, 360, 362

gravely ill with peritonitis 239–40, 404

attitude to Alexeyev 264

and T’s Decembrist manuscript 275

and T’s plea for clemency for Alexander II assassins 288, 289

goes out into Moscow society 297, 311, 314

publishes T’s old writings 6, 316

death of her mother 323

twenty-fifth wedding anniversary 326

and The Kreutzer Sonata 330–31

famine relief 336–7, 339, 340

attitude to Tolstoyans 350, 357

defaces Tolstoyan group photograph 357

‘suicide attempts’ 357–8

neglects Sasha 368

piano-playing 95, 370

and T’s excommunication 390

inventory of library and T’s archive 402

short-sightedness 403

undergoes surgery 404

increasingly hostile to Chertkov 410, 411, 412

finds ‘The Devil’ manuscript 410

and T’s royalties 410

threatens to poison herself 411

paranoia and hysteria 411

and Chertkov’s access to T’s diaries 411–12

tries to drown herself after T leaves her 412

and T’s death 412

attends T’s funeral 413

relations with her children 417