by Cathy Porter
Chopin, Frédéric (1810–49), Polish composer: 26, 91, 166, 173, 175, 194, 198, 217, 241, 244, 262, 264, 269, 319, 323, 334–5, 355, 366, 385, 387, 434, 469
Confucius (551–479 BC), Chinese philosopher: 259
Comte, Auguste (1798–1857), French philosopher: 262
Crosby, Ernest (1856–1907), American writer: 553
Danilevskys, the: 174, 185–6, 208
Davydov, Nikolai Vasilevich (1848–1920), lawyer, president of the Tula, and later Moscow, circuit court: 87, 113, 117, 199, 263, 351, 366–7, 495, 537, 540, 575
Davydova, Ekaterina Mikhailovna, wife of N.V. Davydov: 278
Davydovs, the: 76, 80
Deirenfurt, Richard: 543
Delvig, Anton Alexandrovich (1861–1919), neighbour of Maria Nikolaevna Tolstoy: 49
Delvig, Baroness Khionia Alexandrovna (née Chapkina) (1840–1903), friend of the Tolstoys: 51
Delvig, Nadezhda Alexandrova (born 1863), sister of A.A. Delvig: 49
Delvig, Rossa Alexandrovna (born 1859), sister of A.A. and N.A. Delvig: 49, 51
Delvigs, the: 55
Dehn, Natalya Nikolaevna (née Filosofova) (1872–1926), sister of S.N. Tolstaya: 193–4, 248
Dehn, Vladimir Eduardovich (1867–1933), economic geographer and statistician, professor of political economy: 194
Denikin, Anton Ivanovich (1872–1947) tsarist general, a leader of the White Guards during the civil war of 1918–20: 492, 494–6, 575–6
Denisenko, Ivan Vasilevich (1851–1916): 496
Dickens, Charles (1812–70) Great Expectations; Dombey and Son; The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit: 53–4, 522
Dieterichs, Olga, Chertkov’s sister-in-law: 241, 248, 261, 553, 559
Dillon, Emile Joseph (1854–1930), correspondent for the Daily Telegraph and translator of Tolstoy’s works into English: 78, 546
Diogène, L., La Vie des plus illustres philosophes de l’antiquité: 537
Dolgorukov, Pavel Dmitrievich (1866–1927) landowner and political figure; from 1905 a member of the Kadet Party: 322, 439, 446, 567, 577
Domna, cook from the village of Yasnaya Polyana: 332
Dondukova-Korsakova, Maria Mikhailovna (1828–1909): 314
Dosev, Khristo (1887–1919), Bulgarian writer: 460
Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich (1821–81), writer, The Brothers Karamazov; The Devils; The Idiot: 340, 404, 461–2
Drankov, Alexander Osipovich (born 1880), founder and owner of a cinema: 395, 421
Dreyer, Rudolf Avgustovich (born 1856), Tula doctor: 295, 328
Dubensky, Ivan Ivanovich (1854–1917), chief doctor at Kaluga province hospital: 181, 291
Dudchenko, Mitrofan Semyonovich (1867–1946), fellow thinker of Tolstoy’s: 119
Dumas, Alexandre (1802–70), French novelist: 53
Dunaev, Alexander Nikiforovich (1850–1920), one of the directors of the Moscow Trade Bank and fellow thinker of Tolstoy’s: 91, 146, 153, 181, 183, 198–9, 210, 218, 221, 226, 246, 248, 266, 275, 278, 280, 288, 290, 308, 331, 429, 547–8
Dunaeva, Ekaterina Adolfovna (1851–1923), wife of A.N. Dunaev: 278
Dunaevs, the: 230
Durnovo, Ivan Nikolaevich (1834–1903), Minister of Internal Affairs from 1889 to 1895 (“the minister”): 138, 546
Duse, Eleonora (1858–1924), Italian dramatic actress: 106
Dyakov, Alexei Dmitrievich (“Alyosha”) (1878–1919), friend of the Tolstoys’ sons: 291
Dyakov, Dmitry Alexeevich (1823–91), landowner, friend of Tolstoy: 26, 114, 532
Dyakov, Dmitry Dmitrievich (“Mitya”) (1880–1943), son of D.A. Dyakov, friend of the Tolstoys’ sons: 178, 180, 185–6, 208
Dyakovs, the: 32, 533
Elizaveta Fyodorovna, (1864–1918), Grand Duchess: 107, 434
Elizaveta-Ottilia-Luisa (1843–1916) Queen of Romania, writer (pseudonym “Carmen Silva”): 293, 555
Elpatevsky, Sergei Yakovlevich (1854–1933): 307–9, 321, 328
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803–82), American writer and philosopher: 316
Epictetus (c.55–c.135 AD), Greek Stoic philosopher: 165, 316
Erdeli, Ivan Egorovich (born 1870), husband of M.A. Erdeli: 81, 116, 128
Erdeli, Maria Alexandrovna (née Kuzminskaya), (1869–1923), daughter of T.A. Kuzminskaya: 81, 126, 128
Erdenko, Yevgenya Iosifovna (1880–1953), pianist, wife of M.G. Erdenko: 357
Erdenko, Mikhail Gavrilovich (1866–1940), violinist: 357
Ergolskaya, Tatyana Alexandrovna (“Aunt”) (1792–1874), Tolstoy’s aunt and guardian: xii, xiv–xv, 7, 11, 20–22, 44, 267, 400, 500, 504–5, 516, 529
Ermolova, Ekaterina Petrovna, German governess: 264, 278
Ernefeldt, Arvid (1861–1933), Finnish writer, fellow thinker of Tolstoy’s
Ershova, Olga, Yasnaya Polyana peasant, a teacher at Tolstoy’s school: 96, 413
Falz-Fein, Nikolai (born 1873), landowner in the Tavrichesky province: 294
Feinerman, Isaak Borisovich (pseudonym “Teneromo”) (1862–1925), writer: 68, 70, 538
Feofan, Prelate: 465
Feokritova, Varvara Mikhailovna (1875–1950), friend of Alexandra Lvovna Tolstaya, copyist at Yasnaya Polyana: 349, 351–2, 357, 368, 373, 375, 394, 398–9, 401, 409, 421, 449, 455, 482, 487, 564
Feoktistov, Yevgeny Mikhailovich (1828–98), head of the Chief Department for Press Affairs: 104–5, 115
Feoktistova, Sofia Alexandrovna (née Beklemisheva), wife of E.M. Feoktistov: 104
Feret, Nadezhda Nikolaevna (née Zinovieva) (1870–1942), daughter of N.A. Zinoviev: 172
Fet, Afanasy, Afanasyevich (1820–92), poet: 29, 80, 91, 116, 432, 469, 534, 540, 553, 577
Fet, Maria Petrovna (née Botkina), (1828–94), wife of A.A. Fet: 29
Fetler, Baltic preacher: 369
Feuillet, O., Le Journal d’une femme: 49
Fewson, governess to the Tolstoy children: 67
Fielding, C., The Soul of a People: 320, 553
Le Figaro, French newspaper published in Paris from 1826: 565
Filatov, Nil Fyodorovich (1847–1902), paediatrician, professor at Moscow University: 145, 147, 522–3
Filka, Yasnaya Polyana servant: 121, 368, 375
Filosofov, Vladimir Nikolaevich (“Vaka”) (born 1874), brother of S.N. Tolstaya: 171, 421, 456
Filosofova, Alexandra Nikolaevna (“Sasha”) (1878–97), sister of S.N. Tolstaya: 175
Filosofova, Natalya Nikolaevna (“Natasha”) (1872–1926): 80
Filosofova, Sofia Alexeevna (née Pisareva), (1847–1901), wife of director of the Moscow Institute of Art and Sculpture: 71, 73, 82, 217, 537
Filosofovs, the: 83, 116, 169
Florinsky, Vasily Markovich (1833–99) doctor: 70, 539
Fokanov, Taras Karpovich (1857–1927), Yasnaya Polyana peasant: 439–40
Fokanov, Timofei Mikhailovich, Yasnaya Polyana peasant, in the 1870s steward of Tolstoy’s Samara estate: 118, 543
Fonvizin, S.I., Two Lives: 143, 447
France, Anatole (1844–1924), French writer, La Bûche; La Fille de Clémentine: 242
Frolov, peasant boy: 439
Fry, William: 538
Gachet, governess of Tatyana and Maria Lvovna Tolstaya: 50, 52–3
Gagarina, Maria Alexandrovna (née Golitsyna-Prozorovskaya), acquaintance of the Tolstoys: 281
“Ganya”, Yasnaya Polyana peasant woman: 66
“Gasha”, Maria Nikolaevna’s maid: 247
Gastev, Pyotr Nikolaevich (born 1866), fellow thinker of Tolstoy’s: 136, 408
Geiden, Countess M.F.: 433
Geiden, Count S.M.: 430
George, Henry (1839–97), American economist: 359, 379
Georgievsky, Grigory Petrovich (1866–1948), director of the Manuscript Department of the Rumyantsev Museum: 471
Georgievsky, Lev Alexandrovich, director of the Katovsky secondary school: 266
Ginzburg, Ilya Yakovlevich (1859–1939), sculptor: 124, 173–4, 176, 208, 324, 544
Giuliani, s
inger: 81, 540
Glazunov, Alexander Konstantinovich (1865–1936), composer: 224
Glebova, Lina: 277, 284–5
Glebovs, the: 144–5, 280, 284–5
Gluck, Christoph Willibald (1714–87), Austrian composer: 203, 461, 553
Gogol, Nikolai Vasilevich (1809–52), Dead Souls: 73
Goldenblatt, Boris Osipovich (1864–c.1930), lawyer: 493
Goldenburg, Grigory (1856–80), Russian revolutionary: 57
Goldenweiser, Alexander Borisovich (1875–1961), pianist, professor at the Moscow Conservatoire, author of the book Near Tolstoy: 173, 175, 185, 194, 198, 214, 217, 241, 243, 248, 253, 256, 264, 275–6, 291, 299, 323, 332, 339, 351, 359–60, 363, 366, 368–9, 372, 374–5, 381, 385, 387, 392, 399, 415, 417, 427, 563
Goldenweiser, Anna Alexeevna (née Sofiano) (1881–1929), wife of A.B. Goldenweiser: 387
Goldenweisers, the: 415
Golitsyn, friend of Mikhail Tolstoy: 186
Golitsyna, L.A.: 327
Golitsyna, Vera Pavlovna, Princess, neighbour of the Sukhotins: 264
Golokhvastov, Pavel Dmitrievich (1838–92), writer: 72
Gorbunov, Ivan Fyodorovich (1831–95), actor and writer: 266, 322
Gorbunov-Posadov, Ivan Ivanovich (1864–1940), one of the editors and publishers of the Intermediary: 223, 275, 281, 418, 547
Gurbunovs, the: 362, 459
Gorchakov, Nikolai Mikhailovich (1823–74), relative of Tolstoy’s, led the Crimean army during the Sevastopol campaign: 324, 341
Gorchakova, Princess: 30, 32
Goremykin, Ivan Logginovich (1839–1917), statesman: 184
Gorky, Maxim (1868–1936), writer: 298–300, 540, 556
Goryainova, A.A.: 284
Grieg, Edvard Bergen (1843–1907), Norwegian composer: 175, 281
Grigoriev, Vasily Yakovlevich (“the skopets”) (1848–1926): 561
Grigory, butler at Yasnaya Polyana: 56, 69, 538
Grimm, Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm (1786–1859), German scholars; Fairy Tales: 144–5, 523
Gromov, Fyodor Vasilevich, Tula architect: 502
Gromova, Elizaveta Nikolaevna (née Karpova), wife of F.V. Gromov: 502
Grot, Nikolai Yakovlevich (1852–99), philosopher, professor at Moscow University, founder of the journal Questions of Philosophy and Psychology: 133
Gruzinsky, Alexei Yevgenevich (1858–1930), literary historian: 458, 462
Gruzinskys, the, family of N.I. Gruzinsky, a friend of the Tolstoys: 180
Guchkov, Nikolai Ivanovich, politician, from 1906 to 1913 mayor of Moscow: 434, 566–7
Guchkov, N.S.: 466
Gué Anna Petrovna (1832–91), wife of the artist N.N. Gué: 95
Gué, Nikolai Nikolaevich (“the old man”) (1831–94), artist: 69, 85, 95, 156, 269, 366–67, 369, 422, 540, 542
Gué, Nikolai Nikolaevich (1857–1940), son of the artist N.N. Gué, friend of the Tolstoy family: 86, 540
Gureli, Elena Konstantinovna (1878–1900), Princess, friend of Andrei Lvovich Tolstoy: 257
Gurevich, Lyubov Yakovlevna (1866–1940), writer, from 1891 publisher of the Northern Herald: 148–50, 201, 203, 205, 216
Gusev, Nikolai Nikolaevich (1882–1967), Tolstoy’s secretary from 1907 to 1909, author of several books about Tolstoy: 348–9, 351–2, 415, 437–8, 451, 475, 484, 558
Halpérine-Kaminsky, Ilya Danilovich (1859–1935), translator of Tolstoy’s works into French: 427, 432
Haydn, Franz Josef (1732–1809), Austrian composer: 53, 70, 95, 191, 322, 444, 478
Herzen, Alexander Ivanovich (1812–70), radical writer: xviii, 447
Hoffman, Iosif (1876–1957), Polish pianist, teacher and composer: 156, 334
Igumnov, Konstantin Nikolaevich (1873–1948), pianist, professor at the Moscow Conservatoire: 193, 262
Igumnova, Yulia Ivanovna (“Julie”) (1871–1940), artist, friend of Tatyana Lvovna Tolstaya: 277–8, 321, 431–3, 436, 440, 449
Ioann Kronstadtsky (Ioann Ilich Sergiyev; John of Kronstadt) (1829–1908), archpriest, scripture teacher at educational institutions in Kronstadt: 119
Islavin, Konstantin Alexandrovich (“Uncle Kostya”) (1827–1903), Sofia Tolstoy’s uncle: 91, 117, 186, 203, 218, 221, 245, 248, 250, 256, 290, 309, 318, 334
Islenev, Alexander Mikhailovich (1794–1882), Sofia Tolstoy’s grandfather, ensign, from 1819 retired captain: 4, 34, 499, 502–3, 576
Islenevs, the: 530, 569
Isleneva, Aglaya (“Adèle”) Alexandrovna (born 1844), daughter of A.M. Islenev, 499
Isleneva, Natalya Alexandrovna (married name Zhdanova) (born 1847), daughter of A.M. Islanev: 499
Isleneva, Olga Alexandrovna (married name Kiryakova) (1845–1909), daughter of A.M. Islenev: 499
Istomin, Dmitry Vladimirovich, husband of V.P. Severtseva, Sofia Tolstoy’s cousin: 199
“Ivan” (Drozd), Yasnaya Polyana peasant: 187, 211, 440
Ivanova, Nadezhda Pavlovna (died 1926), Tula friend of the Tolstoys: 174
Ivanova, “a stupid old maid”: 246
Izyumenko, Nikolai Trofimovich (1867–1927), fellow thinker of Tolstoy’s: 579
Jerome, Jerome K. (1859–1927), English writer: 257
Kalachyov, Alexander Vasilevich (c.1876–1931), teacher: 417
Kamolov, soldier: 275
Karakozov, Dmitry Vladimirovich (1840–66), Russian revolutionary: 30
Karnovich, Nadezhda Alexandrovna (née Islavina) (died 1900), aunt of Sofia Tolstoy: 499
Kasatkin, Nikolai Alexeevich (1859–1930), artist: 174, 525, 558
Kashkin, Nikolai Dmitrievich (1839–1920), music critic, music teacher to Sergei Lvovich Tolstoy: 191
Kashkina, Sofia Nikolaevna, daughter of N.D. Kashkin, music teacher to Alexandra Lvovich Tolstaya: 191
Kasso, Lev Aristidovich (1865–1914), Minister of Education: 430, 448, 568–70
Katkov, Mikhail Nikiforovich (1818–87) journalist and pamphleteer: 534
Kaufmann, Fyodor Fyodorovich (born 1837), tutor to Tolstoy’s eldest sons: 534
Kerensky, Alexander Fyodorovich (1881–1970), politician, head of the Provisional Government after the February 1917 Revolution: 485
Kern, Eduard Eduardovich, forester: 79, 91
Khilkov, Dmitry Alexandrovich (1857–1914), officer, disciple of Tolstoy’s: 211
Khilkova, Anna Mikhailovna: 199
Khokhlov, Pyotr Galaktyonovich (1863–96), student at Moscow Technical Institute, disciple of Tolstoy: 79, 120, 132, 142–3
Kholevinskaya, Maria Mikhailovna (born 1856), zemstvo doctor in the Krapivna district: 160–1, 549
Khomyakov, Alexei Stepanovich (1804–60), writer, poet and slavophile, ‘Stars’ ‘At the Midnight Hour’ ‘To Children’: 278, 330, 554
Khrennikova, Elena Nesterovna, friend of the Tolstoy’s: 286
Khreptovich-Butyonev, Konstantin Apollinarevich: 186, 253, 263
Klassen, Karl Khristianovich, steward of S.V. Panova’s estate in Gaspra in the Crimea: 295, 298, 300, 303, 321
Klechkovsky, Mavriky Mecheslavovich (1868–1938), lawyer and music teacher: 396
Kleinmikhel, Nikolai Vladimirovich (born 1877), friend of Mikhail Lvovich Tolstoy: 148
Klobsky (“Klopsky”), Ivan Mikhailovich (1852–98), seminarist and fellow thinker of Tolstoy’s: 540
Kogan, Alexander Eduardovich, editor of the journal Sun of Russia from 1910: 212
Kokoshkin, Fyodor Fyodorovich (1871–1918), politician, member of the first state Duma, and member of the Provisional Government: 488, 574
Kokovtsov, Vladimir Nikolaevich (1853–1943), politician: 433, 439, 446
Kolokoltsev, Grigory Apollonovich (born 1845), officer: 33
Kolokoltseva, Maria Dmitrievna (née Dyakova), (1850–1903), daughter of D.A. Dyakov: 262
Kolokoltseva, Natalya Nikolaevna, daughter of M.D. Kolokoltseva: 209
Kolokoltseva, Sofia Nikolaevna, daughter of M.D. Kolokoltseva: 193, 200, 259, 261
Kolokoltsevs, the: 225, 256
Koni, An
atoly Fyodorovich (1844–1927), public procurator of the St Petersburg circuit court: 188, 428, 551, 565
Konyshev, Vasily, Yasnaya Polyana peasant: 458
Koreshchenko, Arseny Nikolaevich (1870–1921), composer and music critic, The Ice House: 275, 554
Kornilov, L.G. (1870–1918), general in the Tsar’s army. July–August 1917 commander-in-chief of the Russian Army: 485
Korotnyov, Viktor Semyonovich: 449, 457, 569
Kothing, governess to Alexandra Lvovna Tolstaya: 230
Kozhevnikov, Alexei Yakovlevich (1836–1902), neuropathologist, professor at Moscow University: 148
Kozlov, Danila, Yasnaya Polyana peasant: 382
Kozlovskaya, Sofia Petrovna (née Zavadovskaya) (died 1830), grandmother of Sofia Tolstoy: 502, 513, 576
Kropotkin, Pyotr Alexeevich (1842–1921), revolutionary, a theoretician of anarchy: 57, 330, 557
Kryukova, Praskovya Nikolaevna (née Rumyantseva), daughter of the cook N.M. Rumyanstev: 535
Ksyunin, A., journalist: 421, 428, 565
Kubasova, Marfa, Yasnaya Polyana peasant
Kudryavtsev, priest: 561
Kudryavtsov, doctor: 122
Kuhns, the: 262
Kurnosenkov, Yakov Petrovich, Yasnaya Polyana peasant: 84
Kursinsky, Alexander Antonovich (born 1872), poet, in 1895 Mikhail Lvovich Tolstoy’s teacher: 186
Kushneryov and Co., printworks: 429, 492, 566
Kuteleva, Elizaveta Prokhorovna (1862–1913), midwife and doctor’s assistant: 263
Kuzminskaya, Tatyana Andreevna (née Behrs) (1846–1925), younger sister of Sofia Tolstoy: xiii, xvii, 9, 21–2, 24, 26, 28–9, 32–4, 36, 39, 50, 70, 103, 104, 106–7, 118, 121–2, 130–1, 169, 189, 238–40, 267, 335, 339, 420–2, 424, 433–4, 442, 449–50, 452, 454, 468, 481, 484, 493, 499–500, 508, 514, 526, 531, 533, 536, 542, 554, 566, 569
Kuzminskaya, Vera Alexandrovna (1871–1940s), daughter of A.M. and T.A. Kuzminsky: 76, 138, 200, 203, 267
Kuzminsky, Alexander Mikhailovich (1843–1917), husband of T.A. Kuzminskaya, lawyer: 34, 36, 103, 125, 127, 239, 450, 452, 464, 533
Kuzminsky, Dmitry Alexandrovich (“Mitechka”) (born 1888), son of A.M. and T.A. Kuzminsky: 119, 130, 238
Kuzminsky, Mikhail Alexandrovich (born 1875), son of A.M. and T.A. Kuzminsky: 130, 242
Kuzminsky, Vasily Alexandrovich (1882–1933), son of A.M. and T.A. Kuzminsky: 116, 127
