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The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy

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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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  Credits

  Cover design by Adam Johnson

  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

  Cover image courtesy of the Library of Congress

  Copyright

  All the pictures in this volume are reprinted with permission or presumed to be in the public domain. Every effort has been made to ascertain and acknowledge their copyright status, but should there have been any unwitting oversight on our part, we would be happy to rectify the error in subsequent printings.

  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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