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  Tolstoy, Leo. What Is Art? (1898) In What Is Art and Essays on Art. The World’s Classics edition. Translated by Aylmer Maude. London: Oxford University Press, 1950.

  Tolstoy, Lev. Polnoe sobranie sochinenii [abbreviated as PSS]. Edited by V. G. Chertkov. 90 volumes. Moscow, 1928–1958.

  Tolstoy, L. N., and sister and brothers. Perepiski Russkikh Pisateley: Perepiska L. N. Tolstogo s sestroy i brat’yami. Moscow: Khudozhestvennaya Literatura, 1990.

  Tolstoy, Sergei. Tolstoy Remembered by His Son Sergei Tolstoy. Translated by Moura Budberg. New York: Atheneum, 1962.

  Tolstaya, Sofia Andreevna. My Life. Translated by John Woodsworth and Arkadi Klioutchanski. Edited by Andrew Donskov. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2010.

  Tolstoy, Sophia. The Diaries of Sophia Tolstoy. Translated by Cathy Porter. New York: Random House, 1985.

  Tolstoy, Tatyana. Tolstoy Remembered. Translated from the French by Derek Coltman. McGraw-Hill: New York, 1977.

  Trollope, Anthony. An Autobiography. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1916.

  Turner, C.J.G. The Tolstoy Companion. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1993.

  Wettlin, Margaret. Reminscences of Lev Tolstoi by His Contemporaries. Translated by Margaret Wettlin. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House. [No date, but this edition was published after 1960.]

  Index

  A note about the index: The pages referenced in this index refer to the page numbers in the print edition. Clicking on a page number will take you to the ebook location that corresponds to the beginning of that page in the print edition. For a comprehensive list of locations of any word or phrase, use your reading system’s search function.

  A

  Alexander II, Tsar, 11

  Anna Karenina challenges with, xv–xvii, 20, 28–51, 76–130, 149–50, 200–205, 235–37, 266–77, 362–63

  character development for, 30–43

  completion of, 321–24, 372

  conception of, ix–xix, 5, 30–42

  cover of, 372

  critiques of, ix–xi, 29–37, 149–50, 161–66, 226–31, 245–55, 306–7, 323–24, 344–49, 363–64, 371–74

  details of, 31–34, 218–20

  distractions from, 76–97

  drafts of, xv–xxiii, 1–51

  epilogue of, xxi–xxiii, 144, 200–201, 313–15, 321–27, 346–49, 353–63

  false start on, 98–130

  installments of, 150–55, 162–75, 181–85, 192–93, 200–202, 215–30, 241–43, 258–63, 283–88, 291–97, 301–23, 327–49, 353

  link within, 373–74

  money concerns and, 131–48

  as novella, xv–xvi, 46

  outline of, 31–34

  Part 1, 31, 33–34, 37–39, 127, 150–54

  Part 2, 31–32, 162–71, 173

  Part 3, 32, 173–74, 215–18

  Part 4, 33, 220, 225–30, 241–43

  Part 5, 241–43, 247, 258–63, 283–88, 291–97

  Part 6, 283, 301–13, 323, 351–52

  Part 7, 219, 261, 315–22, 327–46, 353, 365

  Part 8, 313–15, 346–49, 353–63

  plot of, xv–xvi, 29–43, 373–74

  price of, 371

  procrastination of, xv–xvi, 20, 29, 88, 120–21, 149–50, 200–205, 235–37, 266–77

  publishing as book, 35, 349–53, 362–72

  redaction of, 39–41

  rough drafts of, 28–51

  selling, 142–43, 371

  serialization of, xv–xvi, 112, 149–87, 200–202, 212–353, 366

  starting, xv–xxiii, 1–51

  suicide in, xi, xvi–xix, xxii–xxiii, 10, 40–43, 121, 125, 196, 201–2, 218, 231, 250, 254, 310–12, 321–22, 328–45, 357–66, 374

  Tolstoy comments on, 29–37, 126–27, 371–74

  translations of, xiii, xvi, 2

  views on, ix–xi, 29–37, 149–50, 161–66, 226–31, 245–55, 306–7, 323–24, 344–49, 363–64, 371–74

  writing preparations, xv–xxiii, 1–27

  Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literature, The, xi

  “Anna Karenina ring,” 372, 372–73

  Around the World in Eighty Days, 98

  August 1873–December 1873, 76–97

  August 1874–December 1874, 131–48

  Austen, Jane, 41, 224

  Ayet, Philippe, 221, 277

  Azbuka, xvii, 3, 5, 17–21, 24, 45–46, 50, 76, 89, 100, 118, 129, 132, 172, 180, 194–97, 204, 219, 230–31, 313. See also New Azbuka

  B

  Babolain, 24

  Bacon, Francis, 212

  Balzac, Honoré de, 313

  Bartlett, Rosamund, 50–51, 58, 148, 317

  Bers, Andrei, 205

  Bers, Lyubov Aleksandrovna, 300

  Bers, Petya, 167

  Bers, Sofia Andreevna, 2. See also Tolstaya, Sofia

  Bers, Stepan (Styopa), xv, 19, 21, 54–56, 65, 73, 128, 145, 187, 191, 268, 273, 290, 298, 362

  Bibikov, Aleksandr Nikolaevich, xviii–xix, xxii, 194, 357

  Bobrinsky, Aleksei P., 222

  Botkin, Dr., 298–99, 302, 313

  Boyhood, 2, 10, 371

  C

  Captain’s Daughter, The, 30

  Carson, Anne, 253

  Chekhov, Anton, 34, 108, 238, 286, 335, 350, 362

  Chertkov, Vladimir, 108

  Chesterton, G. K., 101, 329

  Chicherin, B. N., 369–70

  Childhood, 2, 10, 34, 213, 231, 371

  Children, 10

  Children stories, xvii, 3–6, 313. See also Azbuka; New Azbuka

  Chirkov, Dr. V. V., 204, 231

  Christian, R. F., 12, 23, 85, 195, 204, 207, 255, 284, 324

  Citizen, The, 280, 305, 307

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 59

  Confession, 23, 111, 116, 121, 138–39, 160, 171–72, 190, 195, 199–202, 206–9, 218, 222, 234–36, 239, 244, 247–48, 258, 305, 314, 331, 342, 358, 362, 369

  Cornfield, 346

  Crusoe, Robinson, 232–33

  D

  Darwin, Charles, 25

  David Copperfield, xvi

  Delusion, energy of, x–xi

  Dickens, Charles, 41, 249, 250, 313, 356

  Distractions, 76–97

  Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 25, 34, 144, 193, 226, 232, 279, 327, 335, 346, 356

  Droz, Gustave, 24

  Duke’s Children, The, 356

  Dumas, Alexandre, 26

  D’yakov, Dmitrii Alekseevich, 20, 104, 148, 266, 298–99, 302, 361, 368

  E

  Education articles, 51, 101–4, 117–22, 131–38, 167, 172, 197, 204, 213

  Egyptian Nights, 30

  Eikhenbaum, Boris, 125, 141, 311

  Elpat’evskiy, Sergei Yakovlevich, 282

  “Energy of delusion,” x–xi

  Epilogue, writing, xxi–xxiii, 144, 200–201, 313–15, 321–27, 346–49, 353–63. See also Anna Karenina

  Eugene Onegin, 259

  F

  Fall 1875, 194–211

  False starts, 98–130

  Family Happiness, 2, 34, 279

  Family woes, 76–97

  Famines, xix, 59, 67–73, 79

  Fedorovich, Fedor, 29, 60, 65, 324–25

  Fet, Afanasy correspondence with, 18, 22–23, 27, 53, 76–77, 86–87, 93, 96, 106, 117, 123, 138–39, 148, 158–60, 172, 175–76, 194–95, 202–6, 226, 231–35, 247–48, 255–57, 263–67, 274–79, 282–83, 290, 313–15, 322, 345, 361–62, 368

  friendship with, 18, 23–24, 86–87, 255–57, 266–67, 276–79

  visit with, 266–67

  Fusso, Susanne, 326, 327, 359, 360

  G

  Garnett, Constance, xiii, xx, 217, 261, 344, 354

  Gautier, Vladimir Ivanovich, 311, 314

  Gautier-Duffas, Ivan Ivanovich, 311

  George, Henry, 99

  Gogol, Nikolai, 41, 139, 346, 348

  Goldenweiser, Alexander, 49

  Golitsyn, Princess Elizaveta Aleksandrovna, 60–62

  Golitsyn, Vla
dimir Mikhailovich, 327

  Golokhvastov, Pavel, 20–21, 35, 43, 117, 123, 126, 135–36, 139, 141, 196–97, 210–11, 236–38, 264, 274, 280–82, 289, 291

  Golokhvastova, Ol’ga, 210–11, 237, 264, 280

  Gorky, Maxim, 1

  Grant, Ulysses S., xi

  Grigoryev, A. A., 246, 252, 254

  Groskop, Viv, xi

  Gudziy, Nikolai, 359

  Gusev, Nikolai, xviii, 19, 21, 37, 42, 45, 53, 64, 66–67, 72, 77–79, 87, 93, 97–98, 103–4, 111–13, 119, 131, 137–38, 145–47, 155, 194, 197–201, 205, 209–10, 218, 229, 245, 257, 278, 283

  H

  Hegel, G. W. F., 245

  Herald of Europe, 346

  Holmes, Richard, 52, 59

  Hugo, Victor, 249, 356

  Hume, David, 212

  I

  Il’inishna, Pelageya, 205, 208, 235

  Islavin, Konstantin Aleksandrovich (Sofia Tolstaya’s uncle), xix, 29, 200, 205, 245, 298

  Islavin, V. A., 369

  Istomin, V. K., 21, 255, 257–58

  Ivanovna, Lizabeta, 157

  J

  January 1874–August 1874, 98–130

  January 1875–June 1875, 149–87

  January 1876–May 1876, 212–64

  January 1877–May 1877, 289–328

  June 1876–December 1876, 265–88

  K

  Karenina Companion, A, 36, 39, 351, 352, 353

  Karlinsky, Simon, 238

  Katkov, Mikhail, 100, 108, 110, 112, 143–51, 154–56, 163, 166–68, 180, 198, 202, 213, 220–21, 232, 236, 261–62, 277, 282, 298, 325–27, 346–49, 354, 359, 362–63

  Kingdom of God Is Within You, The, 329

  Knausgaard, Karl Ove, xi

  Kolokoltsev, G. A., 205

  Kramskoy, Ivan, 79–86, 88

  Kreutzer Sonata, The, 168, 182, 238

  Kuzminskiy, Sasha, 46, 90–91, 120, 175, 244

  Kuzminskiy, Tatyana (Bers), xviii, xxii, 10, 18–19, 26, 29, 35, 43, 46–47, 52, 60, 66–67, 87–93, 97–98, 120, 136, 145, 148, 168, 171, 175–76, 188, 213–14, 219, 234–36, 244, 264–65, 275, 282, 292

  L

  L’ homme-femme, 26

  Lawrence, D. H., 253

  Le Temps, 160

  Le Tour du monde, 98–99, 99

  Leont’ev, P. M., 137

  Letopis’, 21

  Los Angeles Review of Books, xi

  M

  Man-Woman, The, 26

  March 1873–June 1873, 28–51

  Master and Man, 22

  Maude, Aylmer, 7, 22, 25, 53–54, 56, 165

  Maude, Louise, 22, 165

  Maupassant, Guy de, 108

  May 1877–January 1878, 344–74

  Mengden, Y. I., 157–58

  Money concerns, 131–48

  Morozov, Pyotr, 105–6, 115–16

  Moscow News, 51, 371

  Mudrick, Marvin, 165

  Muni, Sakya, 206

  My Life, 52, 61–65, 87–94, 120, 181, 223, 232, 240–44, 269–70, 275, 300–302, 308

  N

  Nagornov, Nikolay M., 89, 150, 167, 172–75, 180, 189, 194, 196–97, 204, 208–9, 213, 220, 231, 276, 369

  Nagornov, Varya, 150, 167, 189, 213, 220

  Napoleon, 146

  Nekrasov, Nikolai, 108, 117, 131, 135–36, 143–44, 172

  New Azbuka, xvii, 5, 141–42, 150, 155, 160, 167, 172–75, 180, 189–90, 194–97, 209, 213. See also Azbuka

  New Times, 346, 348, 362

  Notes of the Fatherland, 108, 117, 131, 136–37, 143, 172

  Novellas, xv–xvi, 2, 10, 22, 34, 46, 213, 231, 238, 279, 371

  O

  Obolenskii, Dmitrij, 82, 86, 138, 186

  Obolenskii, L. E., 353

  On a Future Life Outside Space and Time, 205

  On the Importance of the Christian Religion, 205

  “On Popular Education,” 117–19, 131–38, 167, 204, 213

  P

  Pascal, Blaise, 246, 303, 322

  Peasant children, 2–6, 53, 87–88, 129, 139

  Peasants, conditions for, 18, 68–75, 139

  Pensées, 322

  Perrot, May, 173

  Peter the Great, xvii, 5–6, 17–21, 26–30, 46–47, 142

  Phillips, Annie, 224–25, 300

  Pirogova, Anna Stepanovna, xvi–xix, xxii–xxiii, 41–42, 354, 357

  Pleshcheyev, Alexei, 238

  Polner, Tikhon, 5, 9, 10, 48

  Polonskiy, Y. P., 168, 279–80

  Popoff, Alexandra, 44, 64, 166

  Porter, Cathy, 90, 91, 300

  Pound, Ezra, 253

  Prime Minister, The, 290

  Prugavin, A. S., 68

  Pushkin, Alexander, 6, 28–30, 35, 41, 47, 139, 146–47, 176, 259

  R

  Rachinsky, S. A., 373

  Repin, Ilya, 7, 8

  Resurrection, 183–84

  Rey, Jules, 173, 175, 187–88, 193, 195, 223–25, 257, 270, 371

  Reynolds, Joshua, 316

  Ring for Sofia Tolstaya, 372, 372–73

  Ris, Fedor Fedorovich, 347, 362, 364, 368

  Rozhdestvenkij, Vladimir Ivanovich, 299, 300

  Rubinstein, Nikolai, 283

  Ruskin, John, 108, 207

  Russian Herald, 103, 108, 110, 112, 137, 142–47, 151, 151–52, 156, 162, 168, 172–75, 198, 202, 213, 215, 225, 241, 251, 256–59, 262, 279, 284, 291, 298, 306–9, 314, 323, 325–30, 346–53, 359–64

  Russkiy Vestnik, 143–44, 151, 308, 350. See also Russian Herald

  S

  Salazkina, Valentina Petrovna, 59

  Samara vacations, 52–77, 126–29, 135–37, 186–93, 266–73

  Samarin, Yury Fyodorovich, 111, 113–14, 163, 172, 205

  Schopenhauer, Arthur, 99, 112, 245, 257, 258

  September 1872–March 1873, 1–27

  Serialization, xv–xvi, 112, 149–87, 192–93, 200–202, 212–353, 366. See also Anna Karenina

  Shakespeare, William, 65, 74, 108, 139, 346

  Shartse, Olga, ix

  Shklovsky, Viktor, ix, x, xi

  Shot, The, 30

  Simmons, Ernest, 102

  Solov’ev, Ivan Grigor’evich, 371–72

  Solov’ev, Vladimir, 195

  Stasov, V. V., 168, 346, 371

  Strakhov, Nikolai correspondence with, 25–29, 35, 43, 47–67, 76–78, 82–87, 95–96, 108–26, 132, 136–44, 147, 149–57, 160–63, 167–71, 175–79, 190–98, 202–10, 212–13, 220–22, 234–37, 245–57, 262–67, 274–82, 289–94, 303–7, 313–15, 322–25, 328, 344–54, 362–71

  friendship with, xviii, 20–29, 78, 118–20, 177–78, 190, 252–55, 266–67, 278–80, 307, 349–50

  photo of, 26

  views of, 226, 245–55, 344–49, 363–64

  visit with, 25, 348–51

  Suicide in Anna Karenina, xi, xvi–xix, xxii–xxiii, 10, 40–43, 121, 125, 196, 201–2, 218, 231, 250, 254, 310–12, 321–22, 328–45, 357–66, 374

  of Anna Pirogova, xxii–xxiii

  increases in, 151, 329, 363

  of Katkov brother, 151

  murder-suicide, 85

  occurrences of, 85, 151, 290, 329, 363

  as sin, 329–30

  Tolstoy feelings on, xi, xvi–xix, xxii–xxiii, 10, 28, 40–43, 85, 111, 121, 125, 196, 201–2, 222, 231, 239–40, 254, 258, 329–31, 335–41, 357–67, 374

  Summer 1873, 52–75

  Summer 1875, 188–93

  Suvorin, A. S., 85

  T

  Tabor, Emily, 26, 142

  Tales of Belkin, The, 30

  Tarsey, Hannah, 26, 46, 52, 74

  Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich, 283–84

  Third Factory, ix

  Tikhomirov, D. I., 88, 101, 104

  Tolstaya, Aleksandra (Alexandrine), 5–6, 11–20, 24, 27, 53, 70–72, 75, 114, 122, 125–26, 135, 139, 146–47, 173, 232, 235, 239, 247–48, 286, 290, 303, 307, 322–23

  Tolstaya, Alexandra (that is) Tolstaya, Alexandra Lvovna (daughter), 54, 59, 161, 190, 198, 273

  Tolstaya, Elena Sergeevna
, 214, 240

  Tolstaya, Maria (that is) Tolstaya, Maria Nikolaevna (sister), 46, 60, 121–23, 213–14, 239–42, 265–68, 368

  Tolstaya, Masha (that is) Tolstaya, Maria (Masha) Lvovna (daughter), 16, 93, 107, 185, 240

  Tolstaya, Sofia August 1873–December 1873, 76–97

  August 1874–December 1874, 131–48

  children of, 2–4, 7, 11–25, 29–30, 38, 44–47, 54, 58–59, 62–65, 74–75, 89–92, 95–96, 115, 119–29, 140–45, 148, 153, 156–61, 187–91, 198, 204, 220, 222, 226, 240, 257–58, 268, 271, 299–302, 313–14, 325, 367–70

  copying manuscripts, xvii–xix, 8–9, 17, 86, 93–94, 100, 107–8, 161, 185–87, 209–10, 243, 275–76, 282–83, 287, 325, 372–73

  correspondence of, xix, xxii–xxiii, 18–19, 29, 66–68, 87, 97, 98, 100, 107, 142–45, 154, 161, 168, 188, 196–97, 224–25, 236, 245, 275–76, 282, 289–90, 339, 365–66

  diaries of, xix, 12, 18–19, 29, 35–36, 44, 54, 61–65, 86, 97, 198–99, 240, 271–78, 280–81, 302, 308

  everyday life of, 21–25

  Fall 1875, 194–211

  illness of, 16, 47, 141, 186, 204–6, 222–23, 226, 231, 235–38

  January 1874–August 1874, 98–130

  January 1875–June 1875, 149–87

  January 1876–May 1876, 212–64

  January 1877–May 1877, 289–328

  June 1876–December 1876, 265–88

  March 1873–June 1873, 28–51

  marriage of, 2–4, 10–11

  May 1877–January 1878, 344–74

  memoir of, 36, 44, 52, 61–65, 81–82, 87–94, 98, 120, 127, 181, 208, 223, 232, 240–44, 268–75, 280–81, 292, 300–302, 308, 324–25

  mother of, 300

  ring for, 372, 372–73

  September 1872–March 1873, 2–27

  suicidal tendencies and, 366–67

  Summer 1873, 52–75

  Summer 1875, 188–93

  Winter 1875, 194–211

 

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