Tolstoy

Volkonsky buys 22

Tolstoy family becomes connected with the estate 21

name 22

Volkonsky’s projects 24–7

T’s birth at 2

T’s beloved home 12, 25, 26, 47, 56

Volkonsky’s serf orchestra 26, 46, 93, 157

residents 32–3, 38–9, 44

Nikolay Ilyich’s building work 38

servants 44–5, 47

Christmas 45–6

Fyodor Ivanovich in 51

Corporal punishment 63–4

Saint-Thomas visits 64

T spends time there while at university 77, 78

T inherits 82, 84

T sells off parts of his inheritance 31, 90, 102, 106, 107, 109, 112, 205

school 4, 93, 140, 141, 144, 145, 146, 190, 197–8, 251, 340, 433, 436, 440

T returns to live permanently in (late 1850s) 31–2, 119, 123, 138

T’s problems readjusting to his home 129

T throws himself into farming 138, 161, 181

secret police raid 148, 152, 153, 303

Lyubov Alexandrovna and family visit 152–3

Sonya arrives 156–7

accessibility to T’s devotees 175–7

Sonya’s longing for a change of scene 187

extensions built 205–6

bull-goring incidents 227–8

local teachers study T’s teaching methods 200, 230–31

Trinity Sunday 260–61

croquet 265, 312, 419

T helps to put out a fire in the village 302

T starts to divest himself of his property 302

post box 313

‘Ideals of Yasnaya Polyana’ 313

Frey visits 321

division of T’s property 331

Stockham visits 328, 341

T’s study 349–50, 404

music-making 370–71

library inventory 402, 420

T is buried as he had wished 53, 413–14

Sonya hopes it will be bought for the nation 418–19, 421

visitors make pilgrimage to the estate 419

looting 423

Alexandra takes over its running 425

Sovnarkom takes over the estate (May 1918) 426

desperate conditions 426–7

nationalised (1921) 427

as ‘estate-museum’ 433, 440, 444

awarded the Order of Lenin (1978) 444–5

T’s great-great-grandson appointed director (1994) 453

conference debating the significance of T’s excommunication (2006) 453–4

Yasnaya Polyana (journal) 146, 157–8, 160, 230

Yazykov, Sergey (T’s godfather) 58

Yedikule (‘Seven Towers’) Fortress, Constantinople 15, 18

Yenisey river 320, 366

Yunosha, Colonel Pyotr 183

Yuriev, Sergey Andreyevich 299, 300

Yushkova, Pelageya Ilynichna (‘Polina’ née Tolstaya, T’s aunt) 66–7, 70–71, 72, 129, 155, 206, 207, 239, 240

Yushkov, Vladimir Ivanovich (T’s uncle) 66–7, 71

Z

Zadruga publishing house 423, 434

Zagibov, Salavdi 7

Zakharin, Dr Grigory 177, 253

Zakharov, Igor 170

Zamenhof, Lazar: Lingvo internacia. Antau˘parolo kaj plena lernolibro (International Language. Foreword and Complete Textbook) 361

Zaseka station see Yasenki station Zheleznovodsk 105

Zinzendorf, Count Nikolaus Ludwig von 53–4

Znamensky Cathedral, Kursk 298

Zola, Émile 220

Zorndorf, Battle of (1758) 151

Zweig, Stefan 2–3, 438, 439