Russ, Richard Francis (son)
relationship with his father Patrick 10–22, 65–70, 83–4, 87, 100n, 106–7, 114–15, 161, 173–89, 386, 475, 501n
education 11, 12–16, 21, 65, 70–1, 82, 100, 105, 106–7, 109, 115, 118, 174
relationship with Mary 13, 22–3, 25, 26, 56, 62, 87, 103, 118, 137, 146, 174, 175, 177, 182–3, 184 and note, 185
spends summer holidays in France 20, 22, 62, 65–70, 100–1, 107, 118, 175
fails examination to Dartmouth 65, 105
smitten with Susan Hodder-Williams 101–3
visits to the theatre and cinema 103, 110
becomes a cycling enthusiast 105–6
national service 106, 109, 137
meetings with Nikolai 107 and note, 178–9, 182n
celebrates his eighteenth birthday 110
passes on family news to Patrick 112, 114
purchases explosives with Patrick 116
joins the Royal Navy 118, 137, 149, 175
meets and marries Mimi Parotte 177–81, 182–3, 185, 186–7
decides to change his surname (O’Brian) back to Russ 180–3
interviewed by King 496
events surrounding Patrick’s desertion of his mother Elizabeth 534–47
Russ, Saidie (sister-in-law) 192, 363, 373, 523 and note
Russ, Sidney (uncle) 211, 360, 534
Russ, Stephen (nephew) 523 and note
Russ, Victor (brother) 114, 191, 192, 356, 360, 366, 523, 538
Russ, Zoe Center (stepmother) 88, 114, 168–9, 189–90, 322, 330
Russia 145–7, 171–2, 177
St Paul’s school 15
plage St Vincent 62–3, 369, 522
Samuel Goldwyn Company 438–9
San Francisco 453–6
Sanderson, William 23
Santiago de Compostela 98, 488n
Sartor Resartus (Carlyle) 150
Sartre, Jean-Paul 343
Saumarez-Smith, John 415, 447, 462, 463, 466, 496n
Schloss Goldegg, Vienna 240, 336
Schoendorffer, Pierre 314
Schönburg, Princess 240
Scientific American 249
Scott, Walter 24, 121 and note, 502n
Sea Cloud (four-masted barque) 513–15
Secker & Warburg 27–8, 38, 43, 44–5, 76, 391
Selden, John 420
Senhouse, Roger 30, 38 and note, 39–40
Seville 95–6
Sharpston, Eleanor 514
Sheil Land 401, 427, 430
Shepherd Market, London 391
Sheremetiev, Father George 86, 157
Simon, Richard Scott 218, 224, 227, 234, 245, 249, 260, 261–2, 263, 268, 272, 274, 290, 295, 296, 308 and note, 342, 379, 382, 383, 401, 507, 510
Simon, Ruth 135
Skerrett (O’Flaherty) 278n
Slack, Austin 216–18 and note, 298n
Slack family 199, 216
Slack, Joan 216
Snow, Richard 402, 421, 451–2
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander 400
Somerset 196, 199, 201, 215–16, 216–17, 222, 262, 298
Sorbas 93
Soustelle, Jacques 153, 166
Spain 91–6, 98, 270–2, 302–3
Spanish Civil War 92, 98
Spectator 30, 130n
Spufford, Francis 421
Squash Rackets Association, London 193
Stanley, Thomas 104–5
Stearns, Richard T. 411
Steel, Danielle 471
Stein & Day 342–3 and note
Stevenson, R.L. 128, 130, 132, 204
Strachey, (Giles) Lytton 38n
Streatfield, (Mary) Noel 207
Strong, L.A.G. 30
Suggestions for the Abolition of the Present System of Impressment in the Naval Service (Marryat) 209n
Sunday Times 402, 498 and note
Taaffe, Edward 445, 517, 518, 553 and note, 554, 556
Tara 163, 255
Targ, William 263–4, 267, 290–1, 301
Tarka the Otter (Williamson) 22
Tarragona 91
Taylor, David 232
Thackeray, W.M. 84, 468
Théodor, Caroline 316
Théodor, Dr Jacques 316, 378
Thrale, Hesther Maria ’Queeney’ 261–2
Time and Tide 126
Times Literary Supplement (TLS) 126, 136, 230, 325
Titles of Honor (Selden) 420
Tolstoy, Alexandra 274, 285, 309, 405, 478, 488n
Tolstoy, Anastasia 283, 309, 400, 405, 478, 486, 488n
Tolstoy, Count Dimitri 12, 23, 24, 48, 119, 167, 184 and note, 250
Tolstoy, Dmitri 310, 320, 419, 447, 469, 473–5, 488 and note, 489
Tolstoy, Georgina Brown 167, 245–6, 248, 250, 251, 263, 265, 268, 274, 280, 283, 285, 309, 368, 384, 394, 515, 522–3
Tolstoy, Ivan 221, 439
Tolstoy, Lily 171
Tolstoy, Maroussia 171, 265
Tolstoy, Natasha 23, 26, 184 and note, 310, 404, 475, 522–3
Tolstoy, Nikolai
education and family relationships 12, 23–4, 119
relationship with his mother Mary 23–5, 155–6, 167–8
recovers from back operation 86, 154–6, 298
meetings with Richard 107 and note, 178–9, 182n
invalided out of the Army 119, 155
relationship with Patrick 119–23, 128, 140–2, 142–4, 155–6, 161, 212–14, 320, 338–40, 367–8, 369
spends summers at Collioure 119–23, 142, 143–4, 169–71, 172, 185 and note, 196, 212–14, 245–6, 309–10, 367–9, 384–5
attends Trinity College Dublin 137, 142–3, 155, 167, 265
love affairs and marriage 143–4, 161–3, 167, 172, 193
obtains post at Millfield School 167
enrols for doctorate at London University 171
bed and books episode 172–3
settles in London 172–3
engagement and marriage to Georgina 245, 250
and death of his maternal grandfather 262–3
aspirations to become a writer 265, 273
house viewing and buying 265–6, 268, 269–70
books written by 286, 299, 301, 304–5, 320, 343, 355, 367–9, 418, 496
legal battle 324, 354, 378, 384, 400, 403, 404, 413–14, 418–19, 422–3, 432
and death of his mother Mary 484–5
approached by King 496
reaction to BBC and press re Patrick’s life and name-change 499–503
and death of Patrick 522–3
Tolstoy, Xenia 310, 473–5, 488, 504, 518, 521, 522
Torra-Balari, Maurizio 268–9, 270
Tortosa 91–2
Toulon 137
Tour Massane 64
Travels in West Africa 520
Treasure Island (Stevenson) 204
The Trial of James Stewart in Aucharn in Duror of Appin, for the Murder of Colin Campbell Esq (1735) 128
Trinity College Dublin 137, 142–3, 162, 169–70, 193, 213, 265, 473, 504–5, 510–11, 513, 520, 521–2
Uncle Vanya (Chekhov) 376
Under the Chinese Dragon: A Tale of Mongolia (Brereton) 127
United States 436–8, 449–59
An Universal Dictionary of the Marine (Falconer) 105, 136, 216
University of Benghazi 172
University of Montpellier 150
USS Constitution Museum 438
USS Hampton 450
Vakily, Helmut 410
Valencia 91
Vancouver Island 192
Victims of Yalta (N. Tolstoy) 286, 299, 301, 304
Victory, Annemarie 513–15
Vienna 240, 244
Villalba 98
Villefrance de Conflent 68
Waldegrave, William 445, 459, 470, 495n, 497, 515, 523
Wales 1–2, 9, 11, 20, 43, 59, 82, 113–14, 117, 124, 157, 164, 202, 209, 243, 248, 265, 298, 308, 373
Wall Street Journal 504n
Walpole, Horace 335
Walter, Richard
131 and note
Warburg, Frederic 27, 28, 29, 32, 40–1, 45, 47, 52, 53
Warner, Oliver 126
Washington 437
The Way to get and to save Wealth, or the sure Method to Live Well in the World (1788) 58n
Weidenfeld & Nicolson 153, 261, 333
Weir, Peter 447
Wellington College, Crowthorne (Berkshire) 12, 15, 23, 366, 405
Wells, Somerset 215
Wemyss Barracks, Canterbury 154
West, Louis Jolyon 445
Westbury Hotel, Dublin 521–2
Westminster, Duke of 517, 553
Wheatley, Keith 209–10
Wicksteed, Dr Francis 247, 342
Wicksteed, Frieda 26, 215, 262, 308 and note, 394–5
Wicksteed, Howard 26, 215, 262, 263, 264, 489n
Wicksteed, Howard ’Binkie’ 13, 262–3, 264
Williams, Edgar 36
Williams-Ellis, Clough 141
Williamson, Henry 22
Wilson, A.N. 421
Wingfield, Alison 162
Winstanley, William 223n
Wodehouse, P.G. 156
Worcester College, Oxford 488
Works
Aubrey-Maturin novels 83, 86, 121n, 161, 193 and Note, 208–12, 213–14, 262, 275, 380–1, 384, 401, 432, 467, 468–9, 483 and note, 515, 520–1
Blue at the Mizzen (1999) 501, 510, 515n, 520
Clarissa Oakes (The Truelove in US) (1992) 412, 416 and note, 417
The Commodore (1994) 132, 442, 443–5, 449, 452, 554
Desolation Island (1978) 158, 314–16, 402n
The Far Side of the World (1984) 242n, 334, 335, 340, 342, 343, 402
The Fortune of War (1979) 313, 316–19, 322, 402n
H.M.S. Surprise (1973) 252, 257–9, 260, 261, 267–8, 293
The Hundred Days (1998) 446–7, 477–8, 479, 486–8, 489, 498n
The Ionian Mission (1981) 209n, 326, 327–8, 329–30
The Letter of Marque (1988) 156n, 354, 359, 369, 376, 377, 379, 380, 390–1, 396, 401n, 402, 407, 411
Master and Commander (1969) 193n, 204, 205, 209n, 215, 216–33, 236, 243–4, 246, 322, 351n, 371, 392, 411, 423, 438, 438–9, 459, 460, 469
The Mauritius Command (1977) 216, 293–301, 304, 305–8
The Nutmeg of Consolation (1991) 384, 406, 414, 415, 421, 469
Post Captain (1972) 196–7, 236–7, 240–1, 246–8, 344, 487
The Reverse of the Medal (1986) 323, 335, 344, 346, 348–55, 373, 379, 384, 401, 469
The Surgeon’s Mate (1980) 242n, 323–5, 327, 338, 450n
The Thirteen-Gun Salute (1989) 379, 392, 393, 401, 402–3, 407
Treason’s Harbour (1983) 334 and note, 335, 338, 343n
The Wine-Dark Sea (1993) 426–7, 435, 436, 504n
The Yellow Admiral (1996) 197n, 440, 448, 461, 469
fiction
Beasts Royal (1934) 113, 202, 468
Caesar: The Life Story of a Panda Leopard (1930) 113, 126, 503, 516
The Catalans (The Frozen Flame in UK) (1953) 8n, 27, 39, 41, 74, 76–88, 89–90, 102 and note, 203
The Golden Ocean (1956) 110, 121, 122, 134–6, 138, 139–40, 148, 165, 203, 205, 206, 218, 223n, 225, 236, 243, 400, 406 and note, 465, 468–9
Hussein (1938) 31–2, 43, 45n, 126, 131, 255, 259, 489, 493, 500, 510, 516, 541n
Richard Temple (1962) 3–4, 15, 35n, 39, 51, 82, 136, 147, 149, 150–3, 159–60, 161n, 164–5, 203, 204, 264, 284n, 351n, 540
The Road to Samarcand (1955) 110, 111, 121, 124–7, 133
Three Bear Witness (Testimonies in US) (1952) 32–42, 43, 44–6, 53, 61, 68, 77, 81, 82, 136, 164, 203, 214, 355n, 432, 443, 450n
The Unknown Shore (1959) 139–42, 147, 148–9, 150, 154, 165, 203, 205, 206, 207, 236, 243
non-fiction
Joseph Banks: A Life (1987) 348, 358–9 and note, 362, 364, 365, 372, 377, 413
Men-of-War: Life in Nelson’s Navy (1974) 274, 279
Picasso (1976) 263–4, 279, 282–3, 284n, 286–92, 293, 296, 331, 333, 430–1 and note
poems 538
‘Dear Mona Fitzpatrick ’32 (or ’3) 512
‘J’occupe seul cette demeure blanche’ 282
‘The raven of the Pyrenees’ 37
‘Sink: down in the grey sea’ 59
‘Song’ 46n
The Uncertain Land and Other Poems (2019) 254
‘You will come to it’ 60
short stories
‘Beef Tea’ 50
‘The Centurion’s Gig’ 205–7
‘The Chian Wine’ 275, 276–8
‘The Clerk’ 50
‘The Crier’ 99
‘The Dawn Flighting’ 553
‘Federico’ 50
‘The Flower Pot’ 48–9
‘Fort Carré’ 50
‘George’ (retitled ‘The Tubercular Wonder’) 50, 540n
‘The Green Creature’ 131
‘The Happy Despatch’ 141
‘The Last Pool’ 258
‘The Lemon’ 49–50, 51
‘The Long Day Running’ 274–5
‘The Mayfly Rise’ 538
‘A Minor Operation’ 50–1, 85n
‘Moses Henry’ 50
‘Mrs Disher’ 50
‘Naming Calls’ 44
‘No Pirates Nowadays’ 127, 538
‘Not Liking to Pass the Road Again’ 42n
‘On the Wolfsberg’ 275, 278
‘A Passage of the Frontier’ 275
‘The Rendezvous’ 275–6
‘Samphire’ 47–8
‘The Silent Woman’ 99
‘The Stag at Bay’ 133–4
‘The Tailor’ 99
‘The Thermometer’ 109, 112
‘The Trap’ 129
‘Two’s Company’ 555–6
‘The Virtuous Peleg’ 121, 131
‘The Walker’ 99
‘Wang Khan of the Elephants’ 259
‘William Temple’ 51–2, 150
short story collections
A Book of Voyages (1947) 27, 131, 261, 477
Chian Wine and Other Stories (1974) 274–9
Collected Short Stories (1994) 443
The Last Pool and Other Stories (1950) 27–8, 29–31, 32, 37, 41, 44, 129, 275
Lying in the Sun (The Walker and other stories in US) (1956) 42, 176, 275
Samphire and Other Stories (unpublished) (1951) 46–7
translations 165–6, 194–5, 197, 239–40, 257, 260–1
Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre (de Beauvoir) 341–2
The Assassination of Heydrich (Ivanov) 252
Banco: The Further Adventures of Papillon (Charrière) 252, 257, 260, 261
Daily Life in the Time of Jesus (Daniel-Rops) 161–3
De Gaulle 2-vol biography (Lacouture) 154, 379–80, 382–3, 384
From the New Freedom to the New Frontier (Maurois) 166
A History of the USSR (Aragon) 154, 166
The Horsemen (Kessel) 215
The Italian Campaign (Mohrt) 197–8
Japon: troisième grand (Guillain) 239
La vie quotidienne des Aztèques à la veille de la conquête espagnole (Soustelle) 153, 154, 166
Le Massacre de la Sainte-Barthélemy (Erlanger) 163
Les Belles Images (de Beauvoir) 204
Letters from Colette (Colette) 210 and note
Louis XVI (Fay) 204
Munich, or The Phoney Peace (Noguères) 194
The Mysteries of Easter Island (Mazière) 204
Papillon (Charrière) 234–5
The Paths of the Sea (Schoendorffer) 314
Quand prime le spirituel (de Beauvoir) 333, 334, 338
The Quicksilver War (Bodard) 197
The Sound of Our Footsteps (Malraux) 199
The Woman Destroyed (de Beauvoir) 219
Works (Cowley) 104
Wraysbury (Berkshire) 24
Wright, James 226
Yeats-Brown, Francis 259
Yeltsin, Boris 403–4
Yeowel
l, John 147
Ynsfor Hunt 209, 275
Ziegler, Philip 229 and note, 232
Zobeck, Terry 46n, 99n, 127n, 159n, 160n, 238n, 343n, 381n, 413n, 415n, 450n, 533, 551
Zuereb, Jo 172
Zulueta, Father de 13, 19
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank the following for their generous help during the protracted genesis of this book. Many of them knew Patrick and my mother personally, and I have greatly benefited from their differing perspectives.
Les Amis de Patrick O’Brian à Collioure; Mme Youg Azzopard-Vinour; Mlle Danielle Banyuls; Professor John Bayley; Mr Stuart Bennett; Mrs John Elliott (our daughter Anastasia); Mr Ben Fenton; Mr Robert Broeder; Lady Buckhurst (our daughter Xenia); Mrs Patrick Bucknell (my sister Natasha); Miss Mary Burkett; Mme Hélène Camps; Mr John Cole; Mr Arthur Cunningham of the British Library; The Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Deeny; Mr Christopher Dowling of the Imperial War Museum; M. Gildas Girodeau; Mme Odette Girodeau; Mr Robert Hardy; Mrs Sherryl Healey of Bovey Tracey Library; Mr Geoff Hunt; Mr Mark Horowitz; Mme Claude Jonquères d’Oriola; Mr Brian Lavery; Admiral Sir Michael Layard; Professor Raymond Levy; the Lilly Library; the London Library; Dr Richard Luckett, Pepys Librarian; Dr David Lyon; Mrs Anne Louise Moore; Mr Edwin Moore; Dame Iris Murdoch; Mr and Mrs Richard Ollard; Miss Sarah Plimpton; Mr James Puckridge; Mrs Brigid Roffe-Silvester; Mr Charles Russ; Mrs Saidie Russ; Mr Stephen Russ; Mr Harry Russell; Mrs Gwen Russell-Jones; Mr Chris Smith of HarperCollins; Count Ivan Tolstoy-Miloslavsky; Mr John Saumarez Smith; Mrs Elizabeth Russ Wood; Mrs Annemarie Victory.
Terry Zobeck lent me exceptional aid. He is preparing what will undoubtedly be the authoritative bibliography of my stepfather’s works. In addition to sharing his specialized knowledge with me, providing in some cases copies of published material which I lacked, he generously gave of his time to read the text more than once during its gestation, providing me with invaluable advice on issues great and small.
My especial thanks go to my old friend and ally Sir Roger Scruton for introducing me to my capital literary agent Caroline Michel of Peters, Fraser & Dunlop, who in turn introduced the book to Patrick’s long-term publisher HarperCollins. Iain Hunt undertook the editorial work with a meticulous care not always encountered in these difficult days for publishers.
I must also emphasize the exceptional benefit I gained from Oliver Johnson’s painstaking editing of the first volume of this biography, from which I have continued to profit in the present work.
Finally, and most important of all, I must thank my dear wife Georgina. Not only has she provided invaluable support of every kind over long years of preparation, but from her first stay at Collioure in 1971 she came to know my parents intimately. As a consequence I was not only able to consult her shared memories, but to discuss with her at every stage Patrick’s enigmatic character. Further to this, she read attentively the entire typescript, detecting many tiresome little errors of chronology and the like which I had overlooked.
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