by Cathy Porter
Tolstoy, Mikhail Lvovich (1879–1944), the Tolstoys’ son: xxiii, 57, 65–6, 76, 78–9, 85–9, 92–3, 95–6, 100, 102, 114, 127, 134–5, 143, 145–6, 151, 154, 157, 159, 161–2, 164–5, 167–8, 170, 172–5, 178–80, 184–7, 189, 191, 195, 197–9, 208, 211–2, 215–6, 218, 226, 231–3, 237, 241, 244–5, 248–54, 256–7, 251, 263–4, 266, 270, 272, 275–9, 281, 284–5, 290, 297, 300, 308, 322–4, 334, 342, 344, 350, 360, 376, 413, 419–20, 422, 426–7, 429, 435, 441–2, 448, 456, 460–1, 466, 472, 477, 479, 483, 485, 487, 489–90, 492, 522–3, 535, 551
Tolstoy, Nikita Lvovich (born 1902), son of Lev Lvovich Tolstoy: 323, 465
Tolstoy, Nikolai Nikolaevich (1823–60), Tolstoy’s elder brother: 341
Tolstoy, Nikolai Valerianovich (“Nikolenka”) (1850–79), son of Maria Nikolaevna Tolstaya: 51, 535
Tolstoy, Pavel Lvovich (“Palya”) (born 1900), son of Lev Lvovich Tolstoy: 290
Tolstoy, Pyotr Lvovich (1872–73), the Tolstoys’ son: xx–xxi, 40, 42–4, 92, 534
Tolstoy, Pyotr Mikhailovich (born 1907), son of Mikhail Lvovich Tolstoy: 422
Tolstoy, Sergei Lvovich (“Seryozha”) (1863–1947), the Tolstoys’ eldest son: xvii, xix, xxiii, 9, 16, 18, 23, 25–7, 29, 30, 35, 46–7, 49, 51–4, 56, 58–9, 65, 68, 71–2, 75, 80, 84–5, 97, 101, 106, 133–4, 142, 144, 150–1, 153, 157, 163, 170, 180, 191, 194, 205–6, 208, 210–1, 213, 216, 218, 221, 226, 229–30, 237, 244–5, 263, 265–9, 276–8, 281, 290–1, 295, 302–3, 307–8, 314–5, 319, 321, 329, 333, 339, 350, 352, 355–6, 366, 368, 397, 400–1, 408, 418–22, 425–6, 432–6, 438, 441–3, 448–51, 453, 457–8, 460–3, 467, 469–70, 476, 478–9, 480, 484, 487, 490, 495, 534, 536–9, 542, 544, 549, 552–3, 563–5, 567, 572, 574, 577
Tolstoy, Sergei Nikolaevich (“Seryozha”) (1826–1904), Tolstoy’s brother: xiv, 9, 21, 24, 26–9, 51, 132, 93, 131, 147, 191, 194–6, 229, 280, 308, 339, 344, 468, 513, 516, 531–2, 534, 556
Tolstoy, Sergei Sergeevich (1897–1974), son of Sergei Lvovich Tolstoy: 438, 441, 450
Tolstoy, Sofia Andreevna (née Behrs) (1844–1919), My Life (‘Memoirs’, ‘Autobiography) 439, 446, 453, 459–61, 489; Skeleton Dolls (‘Skeletons’) 311, 441, 556–7, 573; ‘Song Without Words’ 552, 554; ‘Sparrows’ 38
Tolstoy, Valerian Petrovich (1813–65), husband of Maria Nikolaevna Tolstoy, Tolstoy’s sister: 19, 530, 576
Tracey, Hannah (also known as “Tardsey” and “Tersei”) (born 1845), married name Machutadze, governess to the Tolstoy children: 34, 41, 43, 533–4
Tregubov, Ivan Mikhailovich (1858–1931), close friend of Tolstoy’s: 547, 550, 572
Trepov, Dmitry Fyodorovich (1855–1906) governor-general of St Petersburg: 49, 139, 546
Trepova: 264
Trubetskoy, Pavel (Paolo) Petrovich (1866–1938), Prince, sculptor: 226–8, 268, 419, 544, 554
Trubetskoy, Sergei Nikolaevich (1862–1905), professor at Moscow University, philosopher: 280
Trubetskoys, the: 280
Tsurikov, Alexander Alexandrovich (1850–1912), landowner in the Chern district, lawyer, colleague of Sergei Lvovich Tolstoy: 97
Tsurikova, Varvara Alexandrovna (1851–1922), writer: 145
Tsvetaev, Ivan Vladimirovich (1847–1913), professor at Moscow University, philologist, archeologist, director of the Rumyantsev Museum in Moscow: 340
Tsvetkova: 281
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich (1818–83), writer, ‘Faust’, ‘The Calm’: 148, 440, 463–4
Turkin, Nikolai Vasilevich, tutor of Mikhail Lvovich Tolstoy: 154–5, 166, 170
Tyutchev, Fyodor Ivanovich (1803–73), poet: 219, 250, 254, 278, 554
Ukhtomsky, Esper Esperovich (1861–1921), pamphleteer, poet, from 1896 editor and leaseholder of St Petersburg Gazette: 224, 552
Ulyaninsky, Dmitry Vasilevich (1861–1918), Sergei Lvovich Tolstoy’s teacher: 49, 51, 55
Ulyanov, Alexander: 537
Urusov, Leonid Dmitrievich (died 1885), Prince, vice-governor of Tula: 49, 63, 149, 527, 535–6, 540
Urusova, Maria Sergeevna, (née Maltseva; “Monya”), Princess, wife of L.D. Urusov: 113
Ushakov, Fyodor Andreevich, fellow thinker of Tolstoy’s: 263
Usov, Pavel Sergeevich (1867–1917), professor at Moscow University, physician: 211–2, 272, 280, 325, 329, 420
“Varvara”, maid in the Behrs’ house: 514
Velichkina, Vera Mikhailovna (married name Bonch-Bruevich) (1868–1918), doctor, writer, revolutionary: 136, 546
Vereshchagin, writer: 208
Verhaeren, Emile (1855–1919), Belgian symbolist poet: 190
Verigin, Pyotr Vasilevich (1862–1924), leader of the Dukhobors from 1866: 224
Verne, Jules (1828–1905), French writer, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; In Search of the Castaways: 143, 547
Vertinsky, Alexander Nikolaevich (1889–1957), actor: 572
Veselkin: 229
Vinogradov, Ivan Mikhailovich, prison inspector: 553
Vlasov, Prokofy, Yasnaya Polyana peasant: 419, 564
Volkhonsky, Prince: 241
Volkhonskys, the: 261
Volkhovskaya (Volkhonskaya) (née Zvegintseva), Princess, daughter of A.E. Zvegintseva: 241–2
Volkonsky, Nikolai Sergeevich (1715–84), Tolstoy’s grandfather: 59, 500, 536
Volkov, Dmitry Nikitich, member of the educational Yasnaya Polyana Society in Memory of L.N. Tolstoy: 486, 489, 490, 495
Volkov, Efim, Efimovich, artist: 100
Volkov, Konstantin Vasilevich (1871–1938), zemstvo doctor in the Yalta district: 299, 307, 311–3, 320
Volkov, Nikolai Nikolaevich (1839–1909), landowner in the Chern district: 29
Volkovs, the: 321
Vorontsov-Dashkov, Illarion Ivanovich (1837–1916), Minister of the Imperial Court and its Principalities: 134, 452
Vsevolozhsky, Ivan Alexandrovich (1835–1909), Director of the Imperial Theatres: 105–6
Vysokomirnyi, E.D., secretary of the Yasnaya Polyana Society in Memory of L.N. Tolstoy: 489, 573–4
Wagner, Richard (1833–83), German Composer: 210, 220, 224
Ward, Mrs Humphry (1851–1920), English novelist, Marcella: 141, 547
Weber, Carl Maria von (1786–1826), German composer: 50, 53, 70, 440, 459, 483
Welsh, Anna, English music teacher to Sasha and Sofia Tolstoy: 163, 198, 204, 248, 269
Westerlund, Dora, see Tolstaya, Dora
Westerlund, Ernest Teodor (1839–1924), father of Dora Tolstaya: 236–8, 283
Westerlunds, the: 231
Williams, Howard, The Ethics of Diet: 543
Wulfs, the: 184–5
Yakubovsky, V., Positive Peasant Types in the Early Works of L.N. Tolstoy, and the Image of Karataev: 463
Yartsev, Alexander Viktorovich (1850–c.1919): 171
Yazykova: 387
Yunge, Alexander Eduardovich
Yunge, Ekaterina Fyodorovna (née Tolstaya) (1843–1913), artist, Tolstoy’s first cousin once removed: 278
Yushkova, Pelageya Illichna (née Tolstaya) (1801–75), Tolstoy’s aunt: 513
Zabelin, Ivan Egorovich (1820–1908), historian and archeologist: 340
Zakharin, Grigory Antonovich (1829–96), physician, professor at Moscow University: 69–70, 140
Zavadovskaya, Sofia Petrovna, see Kozlovskaya, S.P.
Zetlin, Natan Sergeevich, publisher: 326
Zhidkov, Alexei, Yasnaya Polyana peasant: 381
Zhilyaev, Nikolai Sergeevich (born 1881), musical theoretician. Pupil of S.I. Taneev: 233, 278
Zhilyaeva, Varvara Pavlovna (née Arnautova) (1851–1924), landowner in Kursk, mother of N.S. Zhilyaev: 219
Zhirkevich, Alexander Vladimirovich (1857–1927), military lawyer, poet and novelist: 527
Ziloti, Alexander Ilich (1863–1945), pianist, conductor and musical figure: 333
Zinger, Alexander Vasilevich (1870–1934), physicist, professor at Moscow University: 421
Zinoviev, Nikolai Alexeevich (1839–1917), governor of Tula from 1887 to 1893, later member of the state Duma:
132, 172, 540
Zinovieva, Maria Nikolaevna, daughter of N.A. Zinoviev: 90
Zinovievs, the: 76, 81, 540
Zola, Émile (1840–1902), French writer. Fécondité: 262, 455
Zolotaryov, Vasily Petrovich (born 1866), fellow thinker of Tolstoy’s: 132
Zonov, Alexei Sergeevich (1870–1919), collaborator on the Intermediary: 263
Zubova, Maria Nikolaevna, see Tolstaya, M.N.
Zvegintseva, Anna Yevgenevna, Tula landowner: 241, 459
About the Author
CATHY PORTER has published biographies of the Russian women revolutionaries Alexandra Kollontai and Larissa Reisner, as well as books about women terrorists of the 1860s, Russia’s 1905 revolution, and the Battle of Moscow. She has translated more than thirty books and works for the stage, including plays by Gorky and the Czech Karel apek. She lives in Oxford.
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Cover painting: Leo Tolstoy with his wife in Yasnaya Polyana by llya Efimovich Repin, 1907, Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, Moscow/The Bridgeman Art Library
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Originally published in a different form in Russian in 1978 by Khudozhestvennaya Literatura, Moscow.
First published in a different form in the United Kingdom in 1985 by Jonathan Cape Ltd.
First published in this revised and abridged edition in the United Kingdom in 2009 by Alma Books.
THE DIARIES OF SOFIA TOLSTOY. Copyright © The State Museum of Leo Tolstoy. English language translation and Introduction © 1985, 2009 by Cathy Porter. Foreword © 2009 by Doris Lessing. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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