by Cathy Porter
Kuzminskys, the: 104, 116, 123, 159, 238–9, 433, 435, 450–2, 458, 470, 475, 477, 567
La Bruyère, Jean de (1645–96), French writer: 459
Lamansky, Vladimir Ivanovich (1833–1914), historian and academician: 320
Landau, L.A., Moses: An Analysis of His Psychic Life: 460, 571
Landowska, Wanda (1879–1959), Polish pianist and harpsichordist: 355, 444, 447, 558
Landowski, Lev Genrikh, husband of W. Landowska: 444
Larionova, Maria: 544–5
Lavrovskaya (married name Tserteleva), Elizaveta Andreevna (1847–1919), singer, professor at the Moscow Conservatoire: 251, 256, 259
Lazursky, Vladimir Fyodorovich (1869–1943), literary historian, in 1894 coached Mikhail and Andrei Tolstoy: 434
Lenin, Vladimir Ilich (1870–1924): 142, 480, 537, 574
Leontyeva, Maria Yevgenevna, wife of M.M. Leontyev, governor of Vladimir: 212
Lermontov, Mikail Yurevich (1814–41), poet, A Strange Man: 126, 464
Leskov, Nikolai Semyonovich (1831–95), writer, No Way Out: 131, 471, 545
Levenson, A.A., owner of a printing firm in Moscow: 460–1
Levitskys, the, family of P.I. Levitsky, neighbours of the Tolstoys: 233
Levshin, Lev Lvovvich (1842–1911), professor at Moscow University
Linev, member of the Tolstoy Museum: 451
Liszt, Franz (1811–86), Hungarian Composer: 217
Litvinov, Alexander Alexandrovich (1861–1933), opera producer: 281
Litvinovs, the: 225
Lodyzhensky, Mitrofan Vasilevich (born 1855), writer: 322
Lodyzhenskys, the: 381
Loewenfeld, Rafail (1854–1910), German literary critic, translated Tolstoy’s works into German: 118, 121, 169, 543
Lombroso, Cesare (1835–1909), Italian psychiatrist and anthropologist: 176
Lopatin, Lev Mikhailovich (1855–1920), philosopher, psychologist, professor at Moscow University: 182
Lopukhin, Nikolai Sergeevich (born 1879), friend of Mikhail Lvovovich Tolstoy: 162, 186
Louÿs, Pierre (1870–1925), French writer, Aphrodite: 549
Loyson, Paul Hyacinthe (1873–1921) Le Droit de vierge
Lvov, Yevgeny Vladimirovich (1817–96), Tula landowner: 32
Lvov, Georgy Yevgenevich (1861–1925), Prince, Tula landowner: 113
Lyassota, Yuly Ivanovich (born 1868), violinist, music teacher to Mikhail and Lev Evovich Tolstoy: 70–1
Makarov, A.A. (1857–1919), Minister of Internal Affairs: 452
Maklakov, Alexei Alexeevich (1870–1918), occultist, professor at Moscow University: 186, 192, 198, 223, 264, 429, 435
Maklakov, Vasily Alexeevich (1869–1957), Moscow lawyer: 322
Maklakova, Maria Alexevna (“Marusya”) (born 1877): 210, 318, 379, 442
Maklakovs, the: 209, 248, 275, 318
Makovitsky, Dushan Petrovich (“the doctor”) (1866–1921): 200, 297, 349, 367–8, 372, 387, 408–9, 422, 424, 427, 437, 442, 444, 447, 450, 452–4, 468, 470, 474–5, 481–2, 484, 551, 556, 563–4, 572
Makovitsky, Dushan Vladimirovich, nephew of D.P. Makovitsky: 484
Malikova, Elizaveta Alexandrovna (“Liza”) (born c.1845), adopted daughter of V.I. Alexeev: 50, 52–3, 55
Malinovsky, Ioanniky Alexeevich (1868–1932), historian, professor at Tomsk University, Blood Revenge: 398, 561
Mallarmé, Stéphane (1842–98), French poet: 190
Malyutin, Yevgeny Nikolaevich, assistant professor at Moscow University: 212
Mamonov, Misha: 264
Mamonova, Sofia Emmanuilovna: 430, 525
Mamonovs, the: 91
Maria Fyodorovna (1847–1928), Empress, wife of Alexander III: 433, 566
Martinov, artist: 451
Martynova, Nadezhda Nikolaevna, friend of Alexandra Lvovna Tolstaya: 147
Martynova, Sapho: 524–5
The Martinovs: 232
Marukhin, Andrei (“the Romanian”): 563
Marx, Adolf Fyodorovich (1838–1904), proprietor of a publishing house: 326
Marx, Karl (1818–83), German political philosopher and economist: 22, 40
Maslov, Fyodor Ivanovich (1840–1915), president of the First Department of the Moscow Palace of Justice: 232, 246, 267, 290
Maslova, Anna Ivanovna, landowner in the province of Oryol, friend of S.I. Taneev: 214, 421–2, 431
Maslova, Varvara Ivanovna (died 1905), sister of A.I. Maslova: 275, 280
Maslovs, the: 245, 256, 280, 457
Maude, Aylmer (1858–1938), translator of Tolstoy’s works into English and writer of his biography: 172, 324, 375, 381–2, 384–5, 417, 434, 548, 550
Maupassant, Guy de (1850–93), French writer: 460
“Mavrusha”, Ilya Tolstoy’s wet nurse: 31–2
Mazzini, Giuseppe (1805–72), Italian patriot and writer, On Human Duty: 301, 556
Medvedev, Vasily Vasilevich: 460
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix (1809–47) German composer: 113, 154, 156, 161, 192, 198, 207, 262, 277
Mengden, Baroness: 527
Menshikov, Mikhail Osipovich (1859–1910), pamphleteer and journalist, ‘On Sexual Love’: 190, 526
Merenburg, Sofia Nikolaevna (1868–1927), granddaughter of A.S. Pushkin, wife of Grand Duke Mikhail Mikhailovich: 104
Merkurov, Sergei Dmitrievich (1881–1952), monumental sculptor: 437
Meshcherinovs, the: 91
Mey, Albert Ivanovich (1840–1913), Moscow photographer: 144, 435, 438, 547
Michurin, Alexander Grigorevich, music teacher with the Tolstoys: 535
Mikhail Mikhailovich (1861–1929), Grand Duke: 104
Miserbiev, Sado: 350
Molochnikov, Vladimir Aifslovich (1871–1936), carpenter from Novgorod, fellow thinker of Tolstoy’s: 380, 560
Molostvova, Elizaveta Vladimirovna (née Behrs), (1875–1936), author of a number of books on the history of sectarianism: 406
Morozov, Nikolai Alexandrovich (1854–1946), revolutionary and politician: 353–4, 558
Morozov, Savva Timofeevich (1862–1905), influential Moscow factory owner, friend of Sergei Lvovich Tolstoy at Moscow University: 227
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756–91), Austrian composer, Don Giovanni: 50, 70, 77, 146, 264, 318, 320, 333, 335, 456, 461, 478, 483
Muravyov, Nikolai Konstantinovich (1870–1936), lawyer and political figure: 427, 560
Muromtseva, Maria Nikolaevna née Kilmentova) (1857–1946), singer and teacher: 243, 266, 286
Myasoedov, Nikolai Nikolaevich (1839–1908), lawyer: 263, 553
Nagornov, Boris Nikolaevich (1877–99), Tolstoy’s grandnephew: 127, 180
Nagornov, Ippolit Mikhailovich, violinist: 50
Nagornov, Nikolai Mikhailovich (1845–96), V.V. Nagornova’s husband: 41, 534, 577
Nagornova, Varvara Valerianovna (née Tolstaya), (1850–1922), daughter of V.P. and M.N. Tolstoy: 40–1, 87–8, 198, 218, 223, 225, 309, 311, 352, 379, 420, 449, 458–9, 464, 471
Nagornovs, the: 75
Nakashidze, Ilya Petrovich (1866–1923), Prince, Georgian pamphleteer and fellow thinker of Tolstoy’s: 266, 275, 460
Naryshkin, Yury Alexandrovich (“Yusha”), acquaintance of Tolstoy’s: 277
Naryshkina, Elizaveta Alexeevna, lady-in-waiting: 433–4
Naryshkins, the: 264
Navrotsky, Alexander Alexandrovich (1839–1914), editor-publisher of the journal Russian Speech: 52
Nazhivin, Ivan Fyodorovich (1874–1940), writer: 403
Nekrasov, Nikolai Alexeevich (1821–78), poet and journalist: 491
Nelyubov: 117
Nesterov, Mikhail Vasilevich (1862–1942), artist: 435
Nief, tutor of Tolstoy’s elder sons: 49–52, 56
Nikiforov, Alexei Alexandrovich: 98
Nikiforov, Lev Pavlovich (1844–1917), collaborator and translator for the Intermediary: 263
Nikitin, Dmitry Vasilevich (1874–1960), the Tolstoys’ resident doctor 1902–4: 319, 321–2, 329, 337, 374, 420, 422, 563
r /> Nikolaev, Sergei Dmitrievich (1861–1920), economist, translator of Henry George into Russian, fellow thinker of Tolstoy’s: 372, 379
Nikolaeva, Larisa Dmitrievna (born 1875), wife of S.D. Nikolaev: 418
Nikolaevs, the: 350, 417
“Nikolai”, cook with the Tolstoys: xv, 221
Nikon, (1605–81), patriarch: 72
Nobel, Alfred (1833–96), Swedish engineer, and Nobel Prize founder: 153, 181–2, 550
Nordman, Natalya Borisovna (1863–1914), writer (pseudonym “Severova”) wife of I.E. Repin
Novikov, Alexei Mitrofanovich (1865–1925), teacher with the Tolstoy family in 1889 and 1890: 540
Novikov, Mikhail Petrovich (1871–1939), peasant from Tula province: 285, 407, 562
Obolenskaya, Alexandra Alexeevna (née Dyakova) (1831–90), founder of a private girls’ secondary school in St Petersburg: 30
Obolenskaya, Elizaveta Valerianovna (“Lily”, “Liza”) (née Tolstaya) (1852–1935), daughter of Maria Nikolaevna Tolstaya: 91, 131, 188–9, 218, 246, 262, 297, 307, 324, 329, 351, 375, 379, 439, 440, 467
Obolenskaya, Katya: 512
Obolenskaya, Maria Lvovna (“Masha”) Tolstoy’s daughter (1871–1906): xix, 39, 41, 50, 52–4, 56–7, 65–7, 75–81, 83–85, 91–98, 101–2, 115–6, 121–2, 127, 135–6, 138, 143–4, 146–8, 150, 153–5, 157, 164–5, 167–9, 175–7, 179–80, 182, 188–9, 192, 206, 208–9, 216, 225, 235, 238, 241–2, 252, 254, 260–1, 273, 284–5, 295, 302, 306–10, 312, 318, 322, 325–6, 328–9, 331, 334, 336–7, 344, 347, 382, 413–5, 438, 493, 522–4, 534, 537–9, 541–4, 548–9, 556
Obolenskaya, Natalya Leonidovna (married name Abrikosova) (1881–1955), grandniece of Tolstoy: 295, 327
Obolensky, Dmitry Dmitrievich (“Mitasha”) (born 1884), Tula landowner: 419, 440
Obolensky, Nikolai Leonidovich (“Kolya”) (1872–1934), husband of Maria Lvovna Tolstaya): 153–4, 157, 168, 175, 188, 192, 216, 235, 273, 303, 326, 334, 336–7, 493, 525, 539, 548
Obolenskys, the: 161, 173, 246
Odoevsky, Prince: 431
Odoevsky, Princess: 431
Ogranovich, Mikhail Petrovich (1848–1904), neuropathologist: 151, 548
Olga Fyodorovna (née Cäcilie of Baden) (1839–91), Grand Duchess: 104
Olsufiev, Adam Vasilevich (1833–1901), close friend of Tolstoy: 219, 308, 556
Olsufiev, Alexander Vasilevich (1843–1907), aide-de-camp general to Nicholas II: 337, 551
Olsufiev, Dmitry Adamovich (“Mitya”) (1862–1930), son of A.V. Olsufiev, friend of Sergei Lvovich Tolstoy: 370, 434
Olsufiev, Mikhail Adamovich (1860–1918), son of A.V. Olsufiev, friend of Sergei Lvovich Tolstoy: 146, 370, 430
Olsufieva, Elizaveta Adamovna (1857–98), daughter of A.V. Olsufiev, friend of Tatyana Lvovna Tolstaya: 541
Olsufievs, the: 84–5, 144, 146, 267
Orekhov, Alexei Stepanovich (died 1822), bailiff, later chief steward of the Yasnaya Polyana estate: 537
Orekhov, Vasily: 447
Orlov, Nikolai Vasilevich (1863–1924), artist: 426, 431, 443, 449, 478
Paderewski, Ignaz Jan (1860–1941), Polish pianist and composer: 266
Panina, Sofia Vladimirovna (1871–1957), Countess, owner of an estate in Gaspra, in the Crimea: 294
Pankratov, Alexander Savvich (1871–1922): 454, 570
Parshin, Alexander Nikolaevich, engineer: 482
Pascal, Blaise (1623–62), French religious philosopher, mathmetician and physicist; Discours sur les passions de l’amour; Pensées: 449–50,, 457, 566, 569
Pasternak, Leonid Osipovich (1862–1945), artist, illustrator of the works of Tolstoy: 249, 290, 553, 558
Pasternaks, the: 141
Perevoznikov, Fyodor Semyonovich (“the peasant”) (born 1888), peasant from the village of Yasenki: 562
Perfilev, Vasily Stepanovich (1826–90), friend of Tolstoy: 30, 513
Perfileva, Praskovya Fyodorovna (née Tolstaya) (1831–87), second cousin of Tolstoy: 30, 513
Perfilevs, the: 30, 513
Persidskaya, Elena Mikhaikovna (born 1865), doctor’s assistant: 136
Peshkov, Alexei Maximovich, see Gorky, Maxim
Peshkova-Toliverova, Alexandra Nikolaevna, see Toliverova, A.N.
Peter the Great (1672–1725): 38, 42, 428, 565
Petrovskaya, Darya Nikolaevna (née Marinina) (born 1862), wife of A.G. Petrovsky: 145
Phillips, Anna (“Annie”), governess with the Tolstoys and Yasnaya Polyana: 49–50, 53, 56, 535
Pirogov, Nikolai Ivanovich (1810–81), scientist, physician, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences: 239
Pirogova, Anna Stepanova (1837–72): 578
Pisaryov, Rafail Alexeevich (1850–1906), landowner in the Epifania district of Tula province: 134
Plato (c.428–c.348 BC), Greek philosopher: 165, 328, 567
Plehve, Vyacheslav Konstantinovich (1846–1904), Minister of Internal Affairs: 138, 339
Pobedonostsev, Konstantin Petrovich (1827–1907), Chief Procurator of the Synod: 152, 184, 213, 287–8, 551, 554
Pogozhev, Vladimir Petrovich (1851–1933), manager of the Office of Imperial Theatres and theatre historian: 106
Pokhitonov, Ivan Pavlovich (1850–1923), artist: 436
Polin, M.Y., revolutionary: 562
Polivanov, Mitrofan Andreevich (“P”) (1842–1913), guards officer: 59, 114, 135, 532, 536, 577
Poltoratsky, Vladimir Alexeevich (1828–89), major-general: 350
Pomerantsev, Yury Nikolaevich (“Yusha”) (1878–1934), composer, conductor, pupil of S.I. Taneev: 185–6, 193, 210, 232, 245, 248, 250, 281
Popov, Yevgeny Ivanovich (1864–1938), teacher, translator, fellow thinker of Tolstoy’s: 79, 132, 134, 143, 297, 530, 539
Popov, Mikhail Pavlovich: 452
Popov, Nil Alexandrovich (1833–97), historian, corresponding member of the Petersburg Academy of sciences: 18, 530
Popov, Sergei Mikhailovich (1887–1932), fellow thinker of Tolstoy’s: 476, 481, 547, 572
Posse, Vladimir Alexandrovich (1864–1940), writer: 485
Potapenko, Ignaty Nikolaevich, writer, ‘The Janitors of Fame’: 451
Potekhin, Alexei Antipovich (1829–1908), writer and dramatist, in the 1880s in charge of the repertory department of the St Petersburg Imperial Theatre: 538
Preobrazhensky, Pyotr Vasilevich (“the photographer”) (born 1851), professor at Moscow University: 243
Prévost, Eugène Marcel (1862–1941), French writer, Les Demi-vierges: 163, 549
“Prokofy”, see also Vlasov, Prokofy
Prugavin, Alexander Stepanovich (1850–1920), writer, author of books on the history of Russian sectarians and the Old Believers
Pushkin, Alexander Sergeevich (1799–1837), poet: 54, 379, 465
Puzin, Pavel Alexandrovich (1879–1918), landowner in the Novosilsk district of the Tula province and friend of Mikhail and Andrei Lvovich Tolstoy: 279
Pyotr I, see Peter the Great
“Pyotr”, worker at V.G. Chertkov’s estate in Telyatinki: 404
Rachinskaya, Maria Konstantinova, see Tolstaya, M.K.
Rachinskaya, Maria Nikolaevna (“Manya”): see Tolstaya, M.N.
Raevskaya, Elena Pavlovna (née Evreinova) (1840–1907), wife of I.I. Raevsky: 256
Raevsky, Ivan Ivanovich (1835–91), friend of Tolstoy: 136
Raevsky, Ivan Ivanovich (1871–1931), son of I.I. Raevsky: 136
Raevsky, Pyotr Ivanovich (1873–1920), doctor, son of I.I. Raevsky: 116, 134
Raevskys, the: 90–1. 96–7, 100, 136
Rakhmanov, Vladimir Vasilevich (1865–1918), doctor: 73
Rasputin, Grigory Efimovich (1872–1916), adventurer who exerted great influence in the court of Nicholas II: 426, 466, 475, 479, 571
Radstock, Grenville (1831–1913), English preacher, and “Radstockist”: 362, 559
Repin, Ilya Efimovich (1844–1930), painter: 73, 123, 210, 442, 464, 539, 544
Rey, M. Jules (born 1848), tutor to the To
lstoys’ sons from 1875 to 1877: 47, 535
Richet, Charles (1850–1935), French physiologist and psychologist: 128, 545
Ries, Fyodor Fyodorovich, proprietor of a printing works in Moscow: 41, 534
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai Andreevich (1844–1908), composer: 210, 553
Rizkina, Elizaveta Vasilevna (née Zinger), daughter of V.A. Zinger, professor of mathematics: 393
Rod, Edouard (1857–1910), Swiss writer: 453, 570
Rolland, Romain (1866–1944), French writer, Vie de Tolstoi: 434, 478
Roman, head forester at Yasnaya Polyana: 84
Rossinsky, Vladimir Illiodovich (1874–1919), artist: 422
Rossolimo, Grigory Ivanovich (1860–1928), physician, professor at Moscow University: 374
Rostovtsov, Nikolai Dmitrievich (1846–1922), zemstvo activist, landowner in Voronezh province, fellow thinker of Tolstoy’s: 181, 263
Rostovotsova, Maria Nikolaevna: 415
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712–78), Swiss moralist and writer: 336
Rubinstein, Anton Grigorevich (1829–94), composer and pianist
Rubinstein, Nikolai Grigorevich (1835–81), pianist, conductor and director of the Moscow Conservatoire: 171, 174, 207, 244, 262
Rudnyov, Alexander Matveevich (born 1842), chief doctor at Tula provincial hospital: 115, 164, 175–6, 179, 260
Rusanov, Gavriil Andreevich (1846–1907), close friend of Tolstoy, until 1884 member of Kharkov circuit court: 208, 219
Rusanova: 204
Rusanovs, the: 219
Ruzhentsov, Nikolai Ivanovich: 342
“Sado”, see Miserbiev, Sado
Safonov, Vasily, Ilich (1852–1915), pianist, conductor, from 1889 director of the Moscow Conservatoire: 192, 551
Safonova, Varvara Ivanovna (née Vyshnegradskaya), wife of V.I. Safanov: 200, 551
St John, Arthur, former British Officer: 183, 205, 550
Saint-Saëns, Charles Camille (1835–1921), French composer: 232
Salomon, Charles (1862–1936), French writer, author of various articles about Tolstoy: 366–7
Saltanov, Sergei Nikolaevich (1870–1916), artist: 449, 454, 460
Samarin, Pyotr Fyodorovich (1830–1901), Tula landowner: 117
Samarins, the: 56
Schiller, Friedrich (1759–1805), German poet, Don Carlos: 92, 541
Schmidt, Maria Alexandrovna (1844–1911), close friend of Tolstoy and his followers: 72, 157, 168, 175, 179, 233, 238, 255, 258, 282–3, 285, 323, 353, 362, 364, 375, 387, 393, 398–9, 415, 418, 421–2, 432, 440–1, 559–60