Tolstoy

‘The Wood-Felling: A Cadet’s Tale’ 104, 115, 119–20, 130

Youth 25, 114, 130, 132

Tolstoy, Mikhail Lvovich (Misha; T’s son) 202, 279, 326, 368, 403, 436

accomplished pianist and violinist 370

marriage to Alexandra Glebova 389

and T’s death 412

share of the Yasnaya Polyana estate 417

war service 421

Tolstoy, Nikolay Nikolayevich (T’s brother) 107, 138

character 30, 33, 52–3, 202

at Yasnaya Polyana 32–3

little green stick in the woods 52, 53, 413

T on 52–3

education 56, 57, 70, 75

and his father’s death 58

guardianship issue 66–7

army career 70, 84, 97, 101–2, 106, 130, 136

Nikolskoye estate 82, 144, 331

T accompanies him to the Caucasus 98–9

character 98

T confesses to gambling lapse 112

in Moscow with T 136

hunting 139

seeks a cure for his tuberculosis abroad 140, 141

marble bust of him 349

death 38, 119, 124, 141, 231, 240, 358

‘Hunting in the Caucasus’ 141–2

Tolstoy, Nikolay Lvovich (T’s son) 232–3, 237

Tolstoy, Nikolay Ilyich (T’s father)

civil service career 20

his illegitimate son 20

army career 20

marriage to Maria Nikolayevna 21, 30, 32

embroiled in endless court cases 35

hunting 36, 37, 38, 45, 48

a conscientious single parent 36

relationship with T 36–7

appearance 36, 37

character 36

his serfs 36, 38, 45

artistically gifted 36, 73

works hard to restore the family fortunes 38

building work at Yasnaya Polyana 38

Toinette’s love for him 43, 166, 233

Toinette refuses his proposal 43

lunch-time 46–7

Pirogovo lawsuite 57–8

health problems 57, 58

death (1837) 55, 58, 59

Aline has to deal with his financial affairs 58–9

Tolstoy, Nikolay Valerianovich (Kolya

T’s nephew) 93, 141, 206, 268, 280

Tolstoy, Pyotr Alexandrovich 13

Tolstoy, Pyotr Andreyevich (1645–1729) 14–18

character 15, 49

studies navigation and ship building in Italy 15

Western influence 15

ambassador to Constantinople 15

and tsarevich Alexey 16

made a count 16

imprisoned by Menshikov 16, 93

loses title and exiled to Solovetsky Monastery 16–17, 338, 448

death 17, 277

title restored 18

Tolstoy, Pyotr Lvovich (Petya; T’s son) 202, 210, 231, 237

Tolstoy, Sergey Lvovich (Seryozha; T’s son) 44, 150, 176, 189, 211, 214, 370

birth 34, 162–3

education 181, 190, 201–2, 261, 274, 290, 291

teaches at T’s school 198

appearance 201

character 202

Christmas at Yasnaya Polyana 206

T orders peasant shirts for him 207

and Anna Karenina 222

sympathy for the family’s male tutors 265

plays chess with Turgenev 274

at Samara 290

accompanies the Kreutzer Sonata 325

works for the Tula peasant bank 326

receives Nikolskoye 331

failed marriage 367

composer and ethnomusicologist 370

French rights to Resurrection 379

accompanies Dukhobors to Canada 379, 380

second marriage 403

and T’s death 412

relinquishes his share of T’s estate 417

and complete scholarly edition of T’s works 423, 425, 426

teaches at Moscow Conservatoire 436

biography of Fyodor Ivanovich Tolstoy 49, 50

Tolstoy, Sergey Nikolayevich (T’s brother) 51, 73, 136, 186, 404

at Yasnaya Polyana 32–3

inherits Pirogovo 38, 82, 84–5

education 70, 81

Dmitry’s polar opposite 73

a major influence on T’s waywardness 73–4

character 74, 78, 166

short army career 84, 130

love of hunting 85

concerned about T gambling in St Petersburg 90

in love with gypsy Maria Shishkina 90, 97, 244

pet phrase for T 90–91

tries to help T 91–2

in Germany 140, 141

and T’s wedding 155

a depressive 240

breaks off engagement to Tanya Bers 244

marriage to Maria Shishkina 244, 368, 400

lack of sympathy for T 312

heartfelt letter to T 394

death 400

Tolstoy, Sergey Mikhailovich (T’s grandson) 14

Tolstoy, Valerian Petrovich (T’s brother-inlaw) 82, 84, 88, 107, 120, 123, 130, 135–6, 139, 184, 241, 242, 243

Tolstoy, Vladimir Ilych (T’s great-great-grandson) 7, 453

Tolstoy archive 407, 418, 425, 427, 444

Tolstoy family

belief in its German provenance 13–14

becomes connected with the Yasnaya Polyana estate 21

daily rituals 46–7

patron saint 51

move to Moscow (1837) 56–7, 69

family split up 60–61

young Tolstoys go to live with Aunt Polina in Kazan 66–7, 69

division of property (1847) 81–2

at Christmas 206

Tolstoy family crest 18

Tolstoy Museum, Moscow 73, 420, 426, 427, 434, 436, 444, 449–50, 452

awarded the Order of the Red Banner 445

Tolstoy Museum, Starogladkovskaya, Chechnya 7

Tolstoy Society 420, 423

Tolstoyan movement

nature of ‘Tolstoyans’ 5, 352

Ge as one of the first ‘Tolstoyans’ 308

chertkov its eminence grise 6

Tolstoyans sent to Solovki 17–18

Sonya blocks Masha’s marriage to Tolstoyan Biryukov 326

sonya’s attitude to Tolstoyans 350

rumours of a congress 351–2

its first ‘martyr’ 353–4

colonies established in England 362–3, 375, 406

classified as a sect 386

in World War I 422

number of active Tolstoyans 423

amnesty from conscription (1917) 429

and Alexandra’s release on bail 428

difficulties with the Soviet government 429

first grouped with sectarians and religious minority groups 429

chertkov writes testimonials for Tolstoyans 429

‘golden age of Tolstoyanism’ 430

passionate debates in Moscow 430

organisation of communes 431

at the Congress of Religious Sects 431

executions by firing squad 431

removal from list of bona fide conscientious objectors 431