Tolstoy

share of the Yasnaya Polyana estate 417

rights dispute 418, 420

wants Yasnaya Polyana to be bought for the nation 418–19, 421

marks her fiftieth wedding anniversary 420

land handed over to peasants 420–21

state pension 421, 425

steadily loses interest in life 421

hands over keys to chests of T’s manuscripts 425

and Sovnarkom 426

and Sergeyenko’s rudeness 427

death (1919) 427, 432

scholarly articles dedicated to her memory 7

first Russian biography of (2010) 7

‘Some Girls Came to See Masha’ 196

Tolstaya, Sofya Nikolayevna (née Filosofova; T’s daughter-in-law) 325

Tolstaya, Tatyana Lvovna (Tanya) see Sukhotina-Tolstaya, Tatyana

Tolstaya, Varvara Lvovna (T’s daughter) 239, 245

Tolstaya, Varvara Sergeyevna (Varya

T’s niece

wife of Vladimir Vasiliev) 368

Tolstaya, Vera Sergeyevna (T’s niece

wife of Abdurashid Sarafov) 244, 368

Tolstoy, Alexey Lvovich (Alyosha; T’s son) 292, 311, 322–3, 358, 404

Tolstoy, Alexey Konstantinovich (Alyosha) 64

Tolstoy, Andrey Ivanovich (‘Big Nest’

T’s great-grandfather) 18

Tolstoy, Andrey Kharitonovich 14

Tolstoy, Andrey Lvovich (T’s son) 202, 244, 258, 326, 368, 400, 403, 404, 406, 412, 417, 421

Tolstoy, Dmitry Andreyevich 198, 303, 305

Tolstoy, Dmitry Nikolayevich (‘Mitenka’

T’s brother) 84, 90

at Yasnaya Polyana 32–3, 61

education 70, 73, 81

mistreats his serf 71

fervent Christian 71, 72

character 71, 240

appearance 71, 124

friendship with Lyubov Sergeyevna 72–3

artistically gifted 73

Sergey his polar opposite 73

inherits Shcherbachevka estate 82, 85

works at Ministry of Justice 85

T visits him at his estate 107

illness 123, 124, 140

common-law wife 123, 124, 244

death 71, 119, 123, 124

Tolstoy, Fyodor Ivanovich, the ‘American’ 48–51, 82, 89, 166, 187

Tolstoy, Grigory Sergeyevich (Grisha

T’s nephew) 148

Tolstoy, Ilya Andreyevich (T’s grandfather) 166

marries after army career 18

properties 18–19

hospitable and generous 19

lack of education 19

gambling 19, 89

poor business deals 19–20, 38

dismissed from his post on corruption charges 20, 57

bankruptcy 57

death 20–21, 57

Tolstoy, Ilya Vladimirovich (grandson of Alexandra’s brother Ilya) 445

Tolstoy, Ilya Lvovich (T’s son) 176, 189, 203, 211, 436

birth 174, 205

on T’s character 11–12

and T’s school at Yasnaya Polyana 198

character 202, 313

appearance 202

education 202, 261, 264, 291, 311, 325

Christmas at Yasnaya Polyana 206

piano-playing ‘for Prokhor’ 262

trip to the steppe (1878) 273

proposes to Sofya Filosofova 325

marriage to Sofya 326, 367

T appalled at his comfortable lifestyle 326

always short of money 368

and T’s death 412

share of the Yasnaya Polyana estate 417

Tolstoy, Ivan Lvovich (Vanechka; T’s son) 326, 331, 339, 357, 358, 360, 362, 417, 445

Tolstoy, Ivan Petrovich 17, 18, 277

Tolstoy Jubilee Committee 436

Tolstoy, Lev Lvovich (T’s son) 12, 189, 325, 403, 421, 436

birth 174

character 202

trip to the steppe (1878) 273

education 291, 311, 336

constant arguments with T 326, 368, 404

Samara estate 331, 336

mental health 336, 368

marriage 368

share of the Yasnaya Polyana estate 417

works for Red Cross in World War I 421

detests Chertkov 432

publishes The Truth About My Father 432

Tolstoy, Lev Nikolayevich 348, 391

birth in Yasnaya Polyana (28 August 1828) 2, 31–5

death of his mother (1830) 32, 35

his education 44, 47, 59, 64, 70, 74–9, 81

nicknames 33, 37, 39, 154

name 33–4

memory of being tightly swaddled 35

relationship with his father 36–7

love of horses 37–8

happy childhood 47–8, 55–6

earliest extant manuscript 51–2

family moves to Moscow (1837) 56–7, 57

death of his father (1837) 58, 59

locked up and threatened by his tutor 59, 64

tries to fly 60

death of his grandmother 60

questions his faith 63, 74–5

and Ilya of Murom 65–6

appearance 12, 66, 78, 98, 122, 143, 229, 289, 366

unhappy years in Kazan 68

begins to keep a diary (1847) 9, 68–9, 79–80

visits brothels 73, 126

Sergey influences his wayward behaviour 73–4

Rousseau’s influence 76–7

rescued from drowning by peasants 78

venereal disease 79, 80

leaves university without taking a degree 81

inheritance 82, 84, 119

hunting 85, 96, 112, 139, 181, 229, 239, 253, 282, 314, 348

gambling 1, 20, 31, 88, 89, 90, 96, 97, 102, 103, 109, 112, 117, 135, 139–40, 159, 205

learns music from a German pianist 93

efforts to improve Russian literacy see under education

and the gypsies 94–5, 96

piano-playing 95, 103, 370

takes advantage of his serf girls 3, 95–6

begins to think of writing fiction 97

in the Caucasus 98–107

in the army 3, 36, 66, 102, 103, 104, 106, 107–17, 119, 128

disappointment at missing the St George Cross 104, 106

Childhood published and well received (1852) 105, 106

commissioned 107

Crimean War 107–16, 158, 247

in Bucharest 108, 109

on the founding of a new religion 113

marked for life by Sebastopol 119

relationship with Turgenev 119–22, 125, 132, 133, 135, 139, 144, 176, 268–9

relationship with Alexandrine Tolstoya 122–3

and Dmitry’s death 124

contract with The Contemporary 125, 131, 137

resigns from the army 130–31, 132

visits western Europe 132–5, 141–4

forehead scarred by a bear 139

death of brother Nikolay 141–2, 358