INDEX

Abolition of serfdom committees, [119]
Absolutism, historical necessity of, [272]
Æsthetics, philosophical, [287]
theories of, [290]
of the leisured class, [306]
Agricultural Academy of Moscow, [302]
Agricultural labourers in Western Europe, hardships of, [267]
Agricultural population of Russia, immense, [244]
Agricultural village, life in an, [245]
“Akib, the Assyrian King,” [8]
Aksákoff, Iván, [176]
Konstantín, [176]
Serghéi Timoféevitch, prose writer, [176];
a Slavophile, [268], [269], [301]
Alexander the Great, legends of, [8]
Alexander I., educated by La Harpe, [34];
attempts to give Russia a constitution, [34];
grants one to Poland and Finland, [34];
influence of German mystics on, [34];
surrenders to the reactionists, [34];
influence of Madame Krüdener on, [34]
Alexéi the priest’s son, [8]
American features of a new life, [302]
American squatters, [119], [227]
Anarchism, no-government principles of, [146]
modern, founded by Mikhail Bakúnin, [276]
Annals, rich Russian collection of, [14]
Antonovitch, Grand Duke Ivan, imprisoned in fortress of Schüsselberg, [29]
Antique Greek world, study of the, [306]
Anti-Semitic comedy, reception of, in St. Petersburg, [264]
Apocryphal gospels, wide circulation of, in Russia, [17]
Archæological details, abuse of, [306]
Arakchéeff, General, rules Russia during last ten years of reign of Alexander I., [34]
Arctic exploration, Lomonósoff’s memoir on, [25]
Aristocratic girl, interesting types of the, [302]
Armenian language, [4]
Arsenal of punishments, [264]
Arsénieff, K., critic, [172], [295]
K. K., writer of satires, [282]
Art and its impulses, [160]
Art, counterfeits of, [298]
Art criticism, canons in, [293]
foundations of new, [287]
in Russia, [287]
“Art for Art’s sake,” [295], [297], [298]
poets of, [183]-[185]
Art in the service of mankind, [296]
Art, latest works of, [145]-[148]
the main principles of, [289]
utilitarian views upon, [295]
Artels (coöperative organisations), [230]
Asceticism preached in Russia, [17]
Audubon, John James, mentioned, [177]
Auerbach, Berthold, mentioned, [91]
Autocracy, evils of, [63]
Avvakúm, Nonconformist priest, memoirs of, [19]-[21];
quotation from, [20];
exiled to Siberia, [20];
taken to the Amúr, [20];
burned at the stake, [20]

Bakúnin, Mikhail, Russian revolutionist, [276]
Balakláva disaster, Tolstóy’s poems on, [113]
Balkan peninsula, invasion of, by Turks, [15]
Balzac, Honoré de, mentioned, [58], [86], [91]
Barantsévitch, novelist, [304]
Baratýnskiy, romantic Russian poet, [62]
Barbier, Henri Auguste, mentioned, [40], [173], [186]
Bards of Northern and Little Russia, [7]
Bards, special, [8]
Baskáks, visits of, to Russia, [16]
Bayán, Russian bard, [13]
Beautiful, realistic definition of the, [290]
the worship of the, [306]
Beauty and Truth, idealistic point of view of, [289]
Belles-lettres, Academy of, founded by Catherine II., [26]
Béranger, Pierre Jean de, mentioned, [3], [186]
chansonnettes of, [4]
Bestúzheff, Alexander, prose writer, [63]
Bible, Russian translation of, [5]
the first Russian, [19]
why it has not yet been superseded, [298]
Biblical Old Slavonian, little use of, [22]
Bibliographical notes, [318]-[320]
Bismarck, Otto Eduard Leopold, mentioned, [124]
“Black people” and “white people,” [14]
Black Sea, Russia takes firm hold of, [27]
Blood-vengeance of Scandinavian heroes, [10]
Boborýkin, novelist, sketch of, [307]
Bodenstedt, friend and German translator of Lérmontoff’s poems, [52], [53], [56]
Bogdanóvitch, poet, [27], [28]
Books, censorship on, in Russia, [264]
Borodín, music of, [14]
Brandes, George, his study of Turguéneff, [91], [94]
Brontë, Charlotte, mentioned, [179]
Browning, Robert, mentioned, [40], [186]
Buckle, Henry Thomas, mentioned, [265]
Bulgaria falls under the rule of the Osmanlis, [15]
Bulgarian language, [4]
Bureaucratic centralisation, [267]
Burial songs of peasant women, [7]
Byeláeff, historian, [269]
Byelínskiy, the greatest critic of histime, [163], [288];
ancestry and sketch of his writings, [288]-[290];
mentioned, [178], [224], [267], [269], [272], [276], [287] n., [288], [289], [293], [296], [298]
Bylíny, early Russian explorers of, [9]
epic songs of, [8]
Byron, Lord George Gordon, mentioned, [33], [40], [42], [44], [45], [46], [47], [51], [61], [63], [186], [187], [288]
Byronism, mantle of, [48]
Púshkin’s, [45]
Byronists, Don Juanesque features of the, [162]
Byzantine Church, teachings of, [17]
Byzantine gnosticism, [5]
Byzantine habits of Moscow, [68]
Byzantine historians, [15]
Byzantine ideals of the Russian Church, [16]

Capitalism, powers of, [268]
Cat-o’-nine-tails, punishment of the, [164]
Catherine II., literature in the early part of her reign, [26];
full of progressive ideas, [26];
her intercourse with French philosophers, [26];
composes her remarkable Instruction to the deputies, [26];
writes several comedies, [26];
edits a monthly review, [26];
writes two satirical comediesand a comic opera, [194]
Caucasians, the most beautiful people of Europe, [52]
Caucasus “society,” descriptions of, [59]
Caucasus, the, one of the most beautiful regions on earth, [52]
Censorship of literature under Nicholas I., [36]
Censorship, rigorous Russian, [94], [263]
Central Russia, invaded by Cossacks, [18]
spoken language of, [6]
Cervantes, Miguel de, good-natured laughter of, [4]
Chansonnettes, playful, [4]
Charles XII., of Sweden, ruler of Little Russia, defeated at Poltáva, [36]
Christ, the teachings of, [140]
Christian brotherhoods, early, [17]
Christian ethics, main points of the, [142]-[145]
Christian humility, [143]
mask of, [83]
Christian literature in Russia, [17]
Christian mysticism, [28]
Christian nationality of Russian Church, [16]
Christian teaching, interpretation of, [138]
moral aspects of, [140]
Christianity, development of, [17]
rationalistic interpretation of, [139];
dogmatic elements of, [140]
reformed, antagonism to, [17]
spread of, in Russia, [29]
Christmas Eve, Russian village life on, [69]
Church and State, attitude of negation towards, [145]
Church Christianity, [140] n.

Church, lower clergy of the, impositions on, [19]
Church, Russian, throws off the Mongol yoke, [16]
Churches, hatred of, towards each other, [138]
Cicero, powerful oratory of, [24]
Circassians, struggle of, against the Russians, [56], [57]
Circles, the, important part played by the, in the intellectual development of Russia, [266]
Citizen, the duties of a, [174]
Civilisation based on Capitalism and State, [131]
Classicism in Russia, [43]
Classics, Russian, circulation of, [6]
Codes of the Empire and the Common Law, [269]
Colonisation, inner, of Russia, [230]
Commercialism, modern, the prey of, [245]
Common Law Courts, peasants’, [222]
Communal land-ownership, [267]
Communal principles in Russian life, [32]
Communal spirit of Russian popular life, [10]
Communism, teachings of free, [144]
Constantine, Grand Duke, exploration of Russia, [225], [230]
Constantine, proclaimed emperor, [35];
abdicates, [35]
Constantinople annalists and historians, [15]
Contemporary novelists, [300]-[317]
Contemporary, The, a monthly review, Tolstóy contributes to, [110], [112];
its fight for peasant freedom, [114];
Nekrasoff edits and contributes to, [171];
Ivan Panaeff, co-editor, [178];
Tchernyshévskiy contributes to, [279];
suppressed, [283]
Coolidge, Professor, of Cambridge, Mass., his review articles on Russian writers, [39]
Co-operative organisations, [230]
Copernicus, mentioned, [25]
Cornwall, Barry, mentioned, [187]
Corps of Pages, [30]
Cossacks, invade Central Russia, [10];
their ways of conducting war, [72]
County councils, [231]
Criticism, literary, [285], [286]
Critics, works of, early read, [287]
Czech language, [4]
Czechs, old literature of, [4]

Dal, V., ethnographer and prose writer, birth and ancestry, [177];
his main work a dictionary of the Russian language, [178]
Danilévskiy, historical novelist, [227]
Dante, Alighieri, mentioned, [61], [187]
Dargomýzhsky, operas of, [13]
Darwin, Charles Robert, mentioned, [265]
Darwinism, exposition of, [293]
new ideas of, [110]
“Decadent” would-be poets, [296]
Decembrists, the, [33]-[36];
Nicholas I. hangs five and exiles others to Siberia, [35]
Degeneracy not the sole feature of modern society, [86]
Délwig, Russian poet, personal friend of Púshkin, [62]
Demetrius, the pretender, takes possession of throne at Moscow, [18]
Demon of habitual drunkenness, [238]
Derzhávin, poet laureate to Catherine II., [26];
his poetry of Nature, [27];
Ode to God, [27];
The Waterfall, [27]
Dickens, Charles, references to, [91], [187];
rollicking humour of, [4]
Discussions, unnatural theoretical, [169]
“Dissent,” varieties of, [268]
“Disturbed Years,” traces of, in popular songs, [18]
Dobrolúboff, literary critic, ancestry and sketch of, [291]
Dobrolúboff, ultra-democratic writer, [114];
mentioned, [290], [293], [297]
Dobrýnia, the dragon-killer, [9]
Dolgorúkiy, Prince, political writer, [278]
Dolgúshin groups, trial of, [135]
Don, blue waters of the, [11]
Dover, England, cliffs of, [52]
Dostoyévskiy, Russian author, sketch of his life and works, [163]-[170];
writes Poor People when twenty-four, [163];
congratulated by Nekrásoff and Grigoróvitch, [163];
introduced to Byelínskiy, the critic, [163];
his sad life, [163];
condemned to death, [163];
pardoned, [164];
death of, [164];
description of his novels, [164]-[170]
Drama in Russia, its origin, [191];
Peter I. opened a theatre in Moscow, [192];
theatres become a permanent institution, [192]
Dramatic art in Russia, development of, [77]
Drunkenness, Russian habits of, [238];
the terrible disease of, [242]
Druzhínin, critic, [295]

Eastern heroes, exploits of, [9]
Eastern legends, Russian versions of, [8]
Eastern Russia, spoken language of, [6]
Eastern traditions, spread of, in Russia, [10]
Educated man in Russia, despair of the, [96]
Educated women, new generation of, [304]
Eighteenth century philosophers, [4]
Eliot, George, mentioned, [179]
Elpátievskiy, S., folk-novelist, [249]
Elsler, Fanny, ballet dancer, appears at the Imperial Theatre, Moscow, [200]
Emancipated woman, the, [304]
Emancipation committees, [280]
Epic narrative, quiet recitative of, [8]
Epic poetry, freshness and vigorous youthfulness of the early, [16]
Epic songs, collecting of, [8];
heroes of, [8]
of wandering bards, [16]
proscribed by the Russian Church, [13]
Epicureanism, exclusive conditions of, [134]
Equality and Liberty, appeals to, [93]
Equality of all men, recognition of, [145]
Ergólskaya, T. A., a woman relative of Tolstóy’s, [111]
Ethnographical research in Russia, [230]-[232]
Euler, Leonhard, mathematician, [24]
European society, conventional life of, [45]
Everyday talk, forms of familiar, introduced into Russian literature, [31]
Everyday life, [259]
Evil, physical force in resisting, [143]
Exact sciences, interest of Peter I. in, [22]
Factory girls, life of, [135]

Faust, Dr., [5]
Federal principles in Russia, [32], [268]
Finland, constitution granted to, by Alexander I., [34]
Folk-literature, of European nations, [7]
of Russia, early, [7]
Folk-lore, leading features of Russian, [16]
Folk-novelists, [221]-[260]
realistic school of, [232]
their position in Russian literature, [221]
Fonvizin. See [Wízin, Von]

Fourier, François, mentioned, [224], [272]
Fourierism, [281]
Fourierists, [163]
Franklin, Benjamin, mentioned, [30]
Freemasons in Russia, their effort for spreading moral education among the people, [28];
their deep influence on Russia, [29];
Alexander I. grants them more freedom, [29]
Free thought stifled in Russia under Nicholas I., [35]
French philosophers, Catherine II.’s intercourse with, [26]
French Revolution of 1830, [271];
of 1848, [272]
French school of acting popular in Moscow, [201]
French Socialists, [272]
Froebel, reforms of, [121]
From Whence and How Came to be the Land of Russia, early attempt at writing history, [15]

Gárshin, war novelist, [124]
Georgia, smiling valleys of, [53]
Georgian language, [4]
Gerbel, N., poetical translator, [186]
German æsthetical writers, metaphysics of, [295]
German metaphysics, [4]
German philosophy, idealistic, [289]
Glínka, music of, [13]
God of the Thunders, [9]
God, the essence of life, [141]
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang, references to, [4], [5], [40], [41], [45], [62], [172], [185], [187], [288], [293]
Gógol, Nicolai Vasilievitch, sketch of his life and works, [67]-[86];
birth and ancestry of, [67];
humour and wit of, [68];
his tales of the upper classes, [69];
the plot of his novel, Tárás Búlba, [70]-[72];
his prose-comedy The Inspector-General described, [73]-[76];
extracts from, [76]-[81];
hostile criticism on The Inspector-General, [78];
Dead Souls his main work, [79];
extracts from, [79]-[81];
he suffers from a nervous disease, [83];
falls under the influence of the “pietists,” [83];
death of, [84];
his great influence on the minds of Russians, [84];
forerunner of the literary movement against serfdom, [84];
literary influence of, [85];
a great artist, [85];
first to introduce the social element into Russian literature, [85];
references to, [6], [27], [58], [89], [96], [163], [176], [177], [201], [282], [283], [288], [301], [319]
Goncharóff, talented Russian writer, sketch of his life and works, [151]-[162];
his attitude of impartiality to his heroes, [152];
profusion of details in his novels, [152];
description of his novel Oblómoff, [152]-[161];
his youth and character, [154];
extracts from Oblómoff, [154]-[159];
description of The Precipice, [161], [162];
mentioned, [6], [120], [169], [223], [224], [228]
Górkiy, Maxim, author and dramatic writer, [217], [249];
his childhood, [250];
his reputation in America and Western Europe, [250];
sketch of the characters in his novels, [250]-[260];
extracts from The Reader, [257]-[259]
Gospels, interpretation of, heresy, [17]
Grammar of the Russian language, foundation of, [24]
Great Russia, description of, [68]
Great-Russian language, [6]
Greco-Latin Academy of Kieff, [19]
Greco-Slavonian Academy founded, [22]
Greek Church, wide-spread separation of the people from the, [19]
Greek models, inspiration of, [15]
Greek Orthodox Church, [137], [138], [267]
Gregory, an adapter of English plays, [191]
Griboyédoff, comedy writer, born in Moscow, [196];
enters the diplomatic service, [196];
sent to Teheran, [196];
arrested at Tiflís, [197];
set free, [197];
in the Persian war, [197];
killed in Teheran, [198]
Grigórieff, A., critic, [295]
Grigoróvitch, peasant novels of, [85], [229]
Grimm’s collection of fairy tales, [7]

Hamlet and Don Quixote, [105]
Hamletism in Russian life, [97], [108]
Hannibal oath, the, [271]
Happiness, personal, where found, [137] n.

Harte, Bret, mentioned, [250]
Hatzfeld, Countess of, her relations to Lassalle, [93]
Heat, mechanical theory of, [25]
Heine, Heinrich, references to, [3], [4], [44], [186], [187], [293]
Hellenic love and poetic comprehension of Nature, [306]
Hemnitzer, a writer of fables, [28]
Herder, Johann Gottfried, mentioned, [33]
Heredity, physiological, [222]
Hérzen, Alexander, birth and ancestry, [271];
enters Moscow University, [271];
exiled to the Urals, [272];
returns to Moscow, [272];
exiled to Novgorod, [272];
expelled from France, [273];
naturalised in Switzerland, [273];
starts his Polar Star in London, [273];
starts The Bell, and becomes a real power in Russia, [274];
supports the Poles, [274];
his death, [275];
mentioned, [267], [269], [289], [314]
High-life in St. Petersburg, [48]
Highly educated, inner drama of the, [299]
Hilferding, A., [8]
Historians, General Staff, [124]
Historical dramas, [214], [215]
Historical novels, difficulties in writing, [123]
Holberg, Danish comedy writer, Jean de France, [27]
Holiday cycle of songs, [7]
Holy Alliance between Germany, Austria, and Russia, [34]
Holy Books, printing of the, [19]
scholastic discussions on, [68]
Homer, epics of, [11]
Homyákoff (Slavophile), extract from speech on Art, [296], [297]
Hood, Thomas, mentioned, [186]
Hugo, Victor, mentioned, [40], [173], [186], [215], [288]
Human drama, development of the inner, [92]
Human nature, failures of, in our present civilisation, [309]
Humanitarian feeling in a family, [310]
Husband and wife, separation between, debated in Russia, [127]
Huxley, Thomas Henry, mentioned, [24]
Huyghens, Constantijn, mentioned, [25]
Hvoschinskaya, N. D., woman prose writer, [179];
sketch of her writings, [179]-[181]

Ibsen, Henrik, mentioned, [259]
Icelandic sagas, [8]
Idea and form in poetry, correspondence between, [173]
Idealism, [116]
mask of, [128]
the neglect of, [257]
Idealistic realism, forms of, [249]
Ideas, means of exchanging, by the circles, [266]
Ilyiá of Múrom, [8]
Imperial Theatre, St. Petersburg, established, [193]
Individual, rights of the, [305]
Indo-European languages, [4]
Industrialism, era of, [267]
Intellectual life in Russia, from 1848 to 1876, [97]
Intellectual unity of the Russian nation, [6]
Intellectuals, Russian, [253]
educated, [263]
type of, [231]
International Working Men’s Association, [276]
Ivánoff, Professor, [287] n.

Jacobinism, Governmental, [114]
James, Richard, his songs relating to dark period of serfdom, [18]
Jersey, Norman law in, [269]
John the Terrible, letters of, to Prince Kúrbskiy, [18];
rule of, in Russia, [18]
Journalism, serious, the founder of, in Russia, [287]
Judaic Christianity, life-depressing influences of, [306]

“Kalevála” of the Finns, [11]
Kalíki, wandering singers, [7]
Kantemir, writer of satires, [22];
ambassador to London, [22] n.
Kapníst, writer of satires, [28]
Karamzín, historian, poet, and novelist, The History of the Russian State, [32];
a poet of the virtues of monarchy, [32];
his history a work of art, [32];
Letters of a Russian Traveller Abroad, [33];
his sentimental romanticism, [33];
his Poor Liza, [33];
spirited protest against serfdom, [33]
Kavélin, philosopher and writer on law, [50]
Kíeff, Annals of, [14], [15]
disappears from history for two centuries, [15]
Knights of industry and plutocracy, modern, [284]
Knyazhnín, translator of tragedies, [193]
Kókoreff, I. T., folk-novelist, [228]
Koltsóff, a poet from the people, [182]
Korolenko, novelist, sketch of, [302]
Kórsakoff, Rímsky, music of, [14]
Kostomároff, historian, [268]
Kotoshíkhin, historian, runs away from Moscow to Sweden, [21];
writes a history of Russia, [21];
advocates wide reforms, [21];
his manuscripts discovered at Upsala, [21]
Kozlóff, Russian poet, [61]
Krestovskiy, Vsevolod, a woman writer of detective stories, [179]
Krüdener, Madame, influence of, on Alexander I., [34]
Krylóff, V. A., playwright and fable writer, [60];
his translations from Lafontaine, [60];
his unique position in Russian literature, [61];
mentioned, [177], [194], [217]
Kryzhánitch, South Slavonian writer, called to Moscow, [21];
revises the Holy Books, [21];
preaches reform, [21];
exiled to Siberia and dies, [21]
Kürbskiy, Prince, letters to, from John the Terrible, [18]

Labour movement in Russia, [265]
Lábzin, a Christian mystic, writes against corruption and is exiled, [29]
La Harpe, French republican, educates Alexander I., [34]
Lake Onéga, folk-literature at, [7]
Land, municipalisation of, [146] the communal ownership of, [246]
Languages of Western Europe, [3]
Lassalle, Ferdinand, mentioned, [93]
Latin Church prevented from extending its influence over Russia, [16]
“Latinism,” [19]
Lavróff, Peter, political writer, [276];
a preacher of activity among the people, [277]
Law of the Russian State and people, [268]
Lay of Igor’s Raid, The, a twelfth century poem, [11]
Lazhéchnikoff, historical novelist, [64]
Laziness, the poetry of, [155]
Legends of the saints widely read, [17]
Leroux, Pierre, mentioned, [224], [272]
Lérmontoff, Mikhail Yurievitch, sketch of his life and works, [50]-[59];
writes verses and poems when a boy, [50];
enters Moscow University, [51];
goes to a military school in St. Petersburg, [51];
writes a popular poem on Liberty and is exiled to Siberia, [52];
transferred to the Caucasus, [52];
plot of The Demon, [54];
description of Mtsýri, [54];
his demonism or pessimism, [55];
a “humanist,” [56];
his love for Russia, [56];
his dislike of war, [57];
death of, [57];
The Captain’s Daughter described, [57], [58];
plot of his novel, The Hero of Our Own Time, [58], [59];
references to, [4], [61], [63], [68], [84], [89], [112], [172], [173], [176], [295], [319]
Levítoff, folk-novelist, [240];
his sad life, [240]-[242]
Liberty, culminating point in struggle for, [304]
Life superior to Art, [290]
Life, the kaleidoscope of, [307]
the organisation of, [140]
the simplification of, [144]
Literary criticism, [285]-[299]
Literary language of Russia, [6]
Literary technique, [227]
Literature, a new vein in, [308];
of the Czechs, [4];
of the Poles, [4];
of the great Slavonian family, [4];
of the Great-Russians, [4];
of the Little-Russians, [6];
of the White-Russians, [6];
treasures of thirteenth century Russian, [15];
a new era for, [26];
modern Russian created, [43];
Púshkin frees it from enslaving ties, [44];
realism of Russian, [46];
introduction of the social element into, [85];
true founders of Russian literature, [176];
position of folk-novelists in Russian literature, [221];
a new school of, [233];
the duty of, [257]
Lithuanian language, [4]
Little-Russia, description of, [67], [68]
Lomonósoff, historian, studies in Moscow, [23];
and at Kieff, [23];
sent to Germany and studied under Wolff, [23];
returns to Russia, [23];
writes a work on Arctic exploration, [25]
Longfellow, William Wadsworth, references to, [3], [4], [186];
his Hiawatha mentioned, [4]
Love, discussion on, [127]

Mal-administration in Russia, [274]
Malo-Russian (Little-Russian) literature, [318]
Mámin, novelist, [304]
Mankind, repulsive types of, [168]
Márkovitch, Mme. Marie, folk-novelist, [226]
Marriage and separation, questions of, [281]
Marriage, accusation against, [147]
opinions upon, [127]
Marriages, complicated ceremony of, [7]
Matchtétt, novelist, [304]
Maupassant, Guy de, mentioned, [250], [308]
Máykoff, Apollon, poet of pure art for art’s sake, [184]
Máykoff, Valerián, critic, [224], [290]
Mazépa, hétman, joins Charles XII. against Peter I., [36];
flees to Turkey, [36]
Mazzini, Joseph, mentioned, [93]
Mediæval literature of Russia, the, [15]-[19]
Mediæval Russia, [32]
Melshin, L., folk-novelist, [249]
Mérimée, Prosper, mentioned, [39]
Merezhkóvskiy, Dmitriy, poet and novelist, sketch of, [305]
Metaphysics, fogs of German, [268]
Mey, L., poet and dramatist, [186]
Mihailóskiy, leading Russian critic, [294]
Mihailóvskiy, gifted Russian critic, [131];
extracts from his writings, [132]
Mikhail (the first Romanoff) introduces serfdom, [18]
Mikháiloff, Mikhail, translator of poems, [186]
Mináyeff, poet, [174]
Mináyeff, D., writer of satirical verses, [187]
Ministerial circulars, system of, [264]
Ministry of the Interior, Russian, censorship of books and newspapers by the, [263], [264]
Mir-eaters, [248]
Misgovernment, evils of, [144]
Modern civilised life, analysis of, [284]
Moltke, Hellmuth Karl Bernhard, mentioned, [124]
Monarchy, the virtues of, [32]
Monasteries, learning concentrated in, [17]
Money-making middle class men, [316]
Mongol invasion of Russia, [15]
Mongol Khans help to build up Moscow, [16]
Mongols, tales from the, [7]
Montesquieu, Baron de la Brède, mentioned, [26]
Moore, Thomas, mentioned, [33], [187]
Moral foundations of life, [129]
Moral philosophy, construction of a, [145]
Moral teachings of the prophets of mankind, [140]
Morality, current rules of, [167]
Moravian language, [4], [5]
Morbid literature, [168]
Mordóvtseff, novelist, [304]
Moscow, built up by aid of Mongol Khans, [16]
conflagration of, in 1812, [11]
first capital of Russia, [14] n.
serfdom introduced into, [16]
becomes a centre for Church and State, [16]
the heir to Constantinople, [16]
Poles capture, [18]
first printing office established in, [19]
revision of the Holy Books undertaken at, [19]
the slums of, [135]
Western habits of life introduced into, [191]
Moscow Church, criticism of dignitaries of, [17]
obtains a formidable power in Russia, [19]
“Moscow Fifty,” trial of, [135], [136]
Moscow Institute of the Friends founded by Nóvikoff, [30]
Moscow monarchy, consolidating the, [16]
Moscow princes, unlimited authority of the, [16]
Moscow stage, the, [200]-[211]
Moscow Theological Academy, [23]
Moscow tsars, authority of the, [268]
Murillo, Bartolomé, mentioned, [90]
“Muse of Vengeance and of Sadness, A,” [174], [175]
Muslin education, [294]
“Muslin Girls,” [294]
Mystery plays, [191]

Nadézhdin, poet, [287]
Nádson, poet, [304]
Napoleon I. in Russia, [126]
horrors of the retreat of, from Moscow, [122]
Napoleon III., coup d’état of, [96]
Napoleonic wars, effect of the, on Russian soldiers, [34]
Naryézhnyi, historical novelist, [64]
Nation’s life, the accidental and temporary in the historical development of, [297]
Natural History of Selbourne (White), [177]
Naturalism and realism in France, [222]
Naturalism and realism, sound, [288]
Nature, forces of, personified in heroes, [9]
Humboldt’s poetical conception of, [25]
knowledge of “unholy,” [17];
severely condemned by the Church, [17]
mythological representations of forces of, [10]
return to, [119]
the highest poetry of, [299]
the law of, [144]
Naúmoff, folk-novelist, [248]
Nefédoff, folk-novelist, [249]
Nekrásoff, Nicholas, poet, sketch of his life and works, [170]-[177];
editor of The Contemporary, [112];
birth and ancestry of, [170];
his black misery, [171];
makes acquaintance with the lowest classes of St. Petersburg, [171];
death of, [171];
his love of the peasant masses, [172];
his inner force, [174];
his pessimism, [174];
his struggle against serfdom, [174];
his best poem, [175];
his poems to the exiles in Siberia and the Russian women, [175];
mentioned, [224], [226], [235], [298]
Neptune, the Sea-God, [9]
Nestor’s Annals, [14]
Netcháeff groups, the trial of, [135]
“Neutral tint” types of real life, [233]
Newspaper publishing, difficulties of, in Russia, [263], [264]
Newton, Sir Isaac, mentioned, [25]
Nicholas I., becomes emperor, [35];
hangs some and exiles others of the Decembrists, [35]
Nicholas the Villager, [8]
Nihilism and Terrorism compared, [102]
Nihilist movement of 1858-[64], [228]
Nihilist, the, in Russian society, [102]
Nihilists, in art, [296]
true, [281]
Nikítich, Dobrýnia, Knight, [8]
Nikitin, Russian poet, [182]
Níkon, Patriarch, ambition of, [19]
Nineteenth century, first years of, in Russia, [31]-[34]
Nobles, servility of the, [28]
Nókikoff, first Russian philosopher, [26]
Nonconformist writings, [19]
Nonconformists, cruel persecution of, [18], [19]
Northern Caucasia, spoken language of, [6]
Northern Russia, spoken language of, [6]
Nóvgorod, annals of, [14]
Nóvgorod republic, victories of the, [14]
Nóvikoff, an apostle of renovation, [28];
his capacities for business and organizing, [28];
starts a successful printing office in Moscow, [28];
his influence upon educated society, [29];
organises relief for starving peasants, [29];
accused of political conspiracy, [29];
condemned to death, [29];
imprisoned in fortress of Schüsselberg, [29];
released by Paul I., [29];
founds the Moscow Institute of Friends, [30]
Novodvórskiy, novelist, [304]

Obloffdom, laziness of mind and heart, [159];
not a racial disease, [161]
Odóevskiy, Prince Alexander, poet, [62]
Odyssey, the, mentioned, [33]
Oertel, prominent novelist, [300];
sketch of, [300]-[302]
Ogaryóff, poet, [275]
Old Testament, books of, wide circulation of, in Russia, [17]
Olónets, province of, bards of, [8]
Orenbúrg, Southern Uráls, [176]
Organ-grinders, miserable life of, in St. Petersburg, [224]
Osmanlis, rule of the, over Servia and Bulgaria, [15]
Ostróvskiy, Russian playwright and actor, sketch of, [202];
description of his plays, [203];
extracts from his drama of The Thunderstorm, [205]-[210];
his prolific work, [211];
mentioned, [223], [224], [229]
Overtaxation of peasants, [284]
Ovid, mentioned, [24]
Ozeroff, translator of plays, [193]

Paganism, return to, [17]
Painters, Russian Society of, [223]
Palm, A. I., dramatic writer, [217]
Panaeff, Ivan, Russian novelist, [178]
Paris, occupation of, by Russian armies, [34]
Parliamentary commissions in England, [267]
Patriarchal family, principles of the, [267]
Peasant character and life, [225]
Peasant choir, music of the, [14]
Peasant proprietorship of land, [246]
Peasant woman, the, apotheosis of the Russian, [175]
Peasants, revolt of, [18]
Peasantry, Russian, [225]
Permians of the Uráls, [235], [236]
Persian language, [4]
Pesaríff, Russian critic, [104]
Pestalozzi, reforms of, [121]
Péstel, mentioned, [35]
Peter I., violent reforms of, [21];
historical significance of his reforms, [21];
realizes importance of literature, [21];
introduces European learning to his countrymen, [21];
establishes a new alphabet, [22];
little interest in literature, [22];
his love of the drama, [192]
Peter III., coup d’état of Catherine II. against, [26]
Petropávlovskiy, a poet of village life, [248]
Philistine family happiness, [133]
Philosophical Nihilist, a, [129]
Philosophical thought, main currents of, [266]
Philosophy of war, [123]
Písareff, literary critic, sketch of, [118], [292], [298], [303]
Písemskiy, A. Th., folk-novelist, [216], [228]
Pleschéeff, A., Russian poet, [174];
arrested with the “Petrashévskiy circles,” [183];
imprisoned, [183]
Poetical beauty of Russian sagas, [11]
Poetical love, higher enthusiasms of, [160]
Poet, Russian, intellectual horizon of, [45]
Poets, the minor, of Russia, [62]-[64]
Poland, Alexander I. grants constitution to, [34]
uprising of, in 1863, [274]
Polar Star, The, Hérzen’s review, [273]
Poles invade Russia and capture Moscow, [18]
Poles, old literature of, [4]
Polevóy, P., historical writer, [295]
Polevóy, poet, [287]
Polezháeff, poet, [62], [63]
Polish landlords, exactions of, [72]
Polish language, [4]
Political literature, [263]-[281]
abroad, [270]-[278]
in Russia, restrictions imposed on, [282]
with art, mixture of, [243]
Political and moral education, school of, [292]
Political parties, development of, [266]
Political thought, channels for, [265]
first manifestation of, in Russia, [28]
Pólonskiy, Russian poet, [184]
Pólotskiy, Simeon, a mystery play-writer, [191]
Pólovtsi, raid on the, [11]
Poltáva, Charles XII., of Sweden, defeated at, [36]
Pomyalóvskiy, folk-novelist, [233];
his sketches from the life of clerical schools, [233]
Pope, an Eastern, [19]
Popular song, development of the Russian, [23]
Popularism, ludicrousness of, [305]
“Populist” element in the Russian novel, [304]
Populists, the, [275]
Potápenko, novelist, [307]
Potyekhin, A. A., comedy writer and folk-novelist, [216], [228], [229]
Prairies, village life in the, [241];
charm of the South Russian, [241]
Press of Russia, muzzling of, [265]
Priest’s house in Central Russia, a, [232]
Printing office established in Moscow, [19]
Privileged classes, educational theories in the interest of, [130]
Procopóvitch, priest and writer, [22];
founds the Greco-Slavonian Academy, [22]
Proletarians, massacre of the Paris, [272]
Protestant rationalism in Nóvgorod and Pskov, [17]
Provincial life in a Little-Russian village, [301]
Pseudo-classicism, revolt against, [287]
Pskov, republic of, annals of, [14];
struggles between the poor and rich of, [14]
Psychical disease, specimens of incipient, [169]
Pugatchóff, leads peasant revolt against Catherine II., [47];
history of, by Lérmontoff, [57]
Punishments, Russian system of, [148]
Púshkin, Alexander, Russian poet, sketch of his life and works, [39]-[50];
his lyrics familiar in England, [39];
neglected in Russia, [39];
appreciated in France and Germany, [39];
his beauty of form, [40];
his individuality and vital intensity, [40];
his birth and ancestry, [41];
his perfect mastership of the Russian language, [41];
his knowledge of folklore, [41];
describes his shallow life in Evghéniy Onyéghin, [41];
exiled to Kishmyóff, [42];
joins the gypsies, [42];
journeys to the Crimea and the Caucasus, [42];
ordered to return to Central Russia, [42];
returns to St. Petersburg and becomes chamberlain to Nicholas I., [42];
marries, [42];
fights a duel and is killed, [42];
his early productions, [42], [43];
his simplicity in verse, [43];
frees literature from enslavement, [44];
his lyric love poems, [45];
called the Russian Byron, [45];
his Epicureanism, [46];
his stupendous powers of poetical creation, [46];
his dramas, [47];
his comprehension of human affairs, [47];
his most popular work, [47];
references to, [4], [6], [13], [24], [27], [31], [36], [51], [53], [54], [58], [61], [63], [67], [68], [69], [79], [84], [85], [89], [103], [112], [172], [173], [176], [195], [265], [287], [288], [289], [293], [308], [319]
Pyéshkoff, A. (Maxim Górkiy), [250].
See [Górkiy, Maxim].
Pýpin, A. N., ethnographical writer, [231]

Racine, Jean Baptiste, mentioned, [61]
Radicals, conceptions of advanced Russian, [114]
Radíscheff, political writer, [26];
receives his education in the Corps of Pages, [30];
his Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow, [30];
transported to Siberia, [30];
commits suicide, [30]
Ralston, English translator of Russian sagas, [11]
Rambaud, French historian, [11]
Rázin, Stepán, terrific uprising of, [18]
Reaction, real geniuses of, [284];
triumphant, [285]
Realism, how put to service of higher aims, [86]
in art, [85]
in France, [86]
in the Russian novel, [85]
of Balzac, [86]
of Russian literature, [46], [222]
Realism and romanticism, mixture of, [168]
Realism, Shakespearian, [146]
Realist, the thoughtful, [303], [305]
Realistic school introduced into Russia by Púshkin, [58]
Religious deception, [140]
Religious propagandists, [248]
Renaissance, movement of, did not reach Russia, [17]
Republican federalism of old Russia, return to, [35]
Rich classes, lust of, for wealth and luxury, [144]
Rigourism condemned, [305]
Romantic school, influence of the, [72]
French novelists of the, [64]
Romantic sentimentalism, [238]
Romanticism, German, [48]
unbridled, [86]
Romanticism and pseudo-classicalism contend for possession of the Russian stage, [195];
triumph of romanticism, [195]
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, mentioned, [119], [121], [130], [148]
Royal power, uninterrupted transmission of, [269]
Rúrik, house of, [14]
Russia, centres of development in, [14]
exploration of, [225], [230]-[232]
her firm hold of the Black Sea, [27]
begins to play a serious part in European affairs, [27]
independent republics of, [15]
invasion of, by Turks, [15]
main cities of South and Middle, laid waste by Mongols, [15]
unity of the spoken language of, [13]
Russian administration, rottenness of, [283]
Russian annals, high literary value of, [15]
Russian Art, different currents in, [300]
Russian Church, split in the, [19]-[21]
Russian diplomatists in Austria, [122]
Russian drama, the, [191]-[217]
Russian dramatists, clumsy productions of, [48]
Russian epic heroes, Eastern origin of, [9]
Russian epics, mythological features of heroes of, [10]
Russian folk-lore, [10]
Russian functionaries, venal nature of, [283]
Russian Geographical Society, [8]
Russian Intellectuals, [304], [307];
moral bankruptcy of, [310], [314], [315]
Russian language, [3]-[36];
richness of, [3];
its pliability for translation, [3];
musical character of the, [4];
many foreign words adopted in, [4];
remarkable purity of, [5];
grammatical forms of, [5];
roots of unchanged, [5];
beauty of structure of, [5];
remarkably free from patois, [6];
unity of the spoken, [13];
foundation of the grammar of, [24];
dictionary of, compiled by Academy of Sciences, [26];
melodiousness of, [53]
Russian literature, a new era in, [283]
Russian novel, change in the, [303]
Russian philosophical language, [31]
Russian sagas, [10]
Russian society, influence of Tchernyshévskiy’s novels upon, [281]
intellectual portion of, [314]
Russian theatre in the first years of the nineteenth century, [194], [195]
Russian verse, old, [22]
Russian versification, rhythmical form of, [13]
Russian women, higher education of, [303]
Russian youth, development of, [293]
Russians, traditions, tales, and folk-songs of, [7]
Rustem of Persia, legends of, [8]
Ryépin’s picture of Tolstóy behind the plough, [137]
Ryeshétnikoff, folk-novelist, [234];
description of his novels, [236]-[240];
literary defects of his works, [237]
Ryléeff, literary representative of the Decembrists, [35], [36];
his ballads circulate in Russia in manuscript, [36];
powerful poetical gift of, [36]

Sádko, personification of navigation, [9]
St. George, [9]
St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, [23], [24]
St. Petersburg winter season, attractions of, [46]
Saint-Simonism, [271]
Saltykóff (nom-de-plume Schedrin), satirist, [282]
Sand, George, mentioned, [229]
Satire, a favourite means of expressing political thought, [282]
Satire, writers of, [282]-[285]
Saying about Igor’s Raid, extracts from, [12]
Scandinavo-Saxon language, [4]
Scheller (nom-de-plume A. Mikháiloff), novelist, [304]
Scherbátoff, Prince, collector of annals and folk-lore, writes a history of Russia, [28]
Scherbina, N., anthological poet, [184]
Schiller, Johann Christoph, references to, [4], [33], [40], [51], [56], [103], [185], [276], [288]
Schopenhauer, Arthur, mentioned, [54], [134], [135], [255]
Scott, Sir Walter, mentioned, [61], [195]
Sebastopol, Tolstóy’s sketches of siege of, [112], [113]
Secret societies begin to be formed in Russia, [34]
Self-love, rational, [142]
Serbian language, [4]
Serfdom, abolition of, [224]
atrocities of, [94]
energetic protest against, [288]
evils of, [222]
growth of, [269]
horrors of, [28], [224], [230]
introduced into Moscow, [16]
introduction of, into Russia, [18]
literary movement against, [84]
Serfs, general feeling in favour of, [226]
Serfs of the Church, [19]
Serfs sold like slaves, [79]
Servia falls under the rule of the Osmanlis, [15]
Shahovskóy, Prince, a writer for the Russian stage, [195]
Shakespeare, William, references to, [4], [47], [51], [52], [126], [195], [201] n., [215], [288]
Shakespearian fatalism, [238]
Shapír, Olga, novelist, [304]
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, references to, [4], [51], [53], [172], [186]
Shenshin, A. (nom-de-plume A. Fet), Russian poet, [185]
Shevchénko, poet, [63]
Shevtchénko, Little-Russian poet, [224]
Short story, the, and its ways of dealing with human life, [316]
Siberia, spoken language of, [6]
Siberian forests, life in the depths of, [222]
Skabitchévskiy, critic and historian, [172], [295]
Slavery, abolition of modern, [146]
Slavonian family of languages, [4]
Slavonian mythology, old, [9]
Slavonic archaisms, [25]
Slavonic mythology, early, [10]
Slavophiles, [266]-[270];
fanatics of absolute rule, [268], [272]
Slum-life, pictures of, [168]
Smirnóff, Madame O. A. (née Rossett), pietist, Gogol falls under her influence, [83]
Smirnóva, Sophie, novelist, [304]
Smith, Adam, mentioned, [277]
Smolénsk, captured by Poles, [18]
Social evils, the main cause of, [144]
Social ideas, unsettled condition of, [305]
Socialism, economic principles of, [146]
Socialist revival in France, [224]
Socialistic movement in Russia, [163]
Society, agitated Russian, [281]
Society and Court scandals, [265]
“Society” divorce cases in Russia, [127]
Society, looseness of habits in Russian, [28]
Society of Friends, assist Freemasons in spreading moral education, [28]
Society of Friends of Russian literature, [296]
Society, Russian educated, [232]
Society, the rebel against, [254]
Solidarity, germs of a realistic philosophy of, [104]
Solovióff, N., playwright, [217]
Solovióff, V., philosopher, [270]
Song-collectors, [231]
Song of the Nibelungs, [11]
Song of Roland, [11]
Songs, burial, [7];
antique, [7]
South Russian annals, [14]
South Slavonian language, high degree of perfection of, [5];
remarkable beauty of, [5]
South Slavonians, folk-songs of, [4]
mixture of, with Turkish and Polish blood in Little Russia, [68]
Southeastern Steppes, Tartar encampments in the, [16]
Southern Russia, spoken language of, [6]
Spencer, Herbert, mentioned, [265]
deep sensation of, in Russia, [294]
Stanukóvitch, novelist, [304]
Stásoff, V. V., his theory of epic songs of Slavonic mythology, [9]
State religions in the interest of the ruling classes, [142]
Stepniak, political writer, [278]
Sterne, Laurence, mentioned, [30]
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, mentioned, [224], [226]
Sukhovó-Kobýlin, playwright, [215], [216]
Sumarókoff, historian, the Russian Racine, [25];
wrote dramas and contributed to the development of the Russian theatre, [25];
helps to develop the Russian drama, [193]
Súzdal, Land of, [14]
Swaggerers, collection of, [178]

Tales, Russian, [7]
Tartars, raids of, into Russia, [16]
Tasso, Torquato, mentioned, [61]
Tatíscheff, historian, superintendent of mines in the Uráls, [23];
wrote a number of political works, [23];
collects and systematises the Annals, [23]
Tchaykóvsky, musician, music of, [13];
composes an opera from Púshkin’s Evghéni Onyéghin, [47];
plot of the opera, [48]-[50]
Tchéhoff, Anton, dramatic writer, [217]
Tchéhoff (pseudonym Tcheónte), novelist, sketch of, [308]-[317]
Tchernyshévskiy, Nicolai, political writer, [279];
his birth and ancestry, [279];
contributes to The Contemporary, [279];
arrested and confined, [280];
his influence on Russian Society, [281];
exiled to Siberia, [281];
returns to Russia and settles in Astrakhán, [281];
his death, [281];
referred to, [290], [291], [293], [296], [297], [298], [314]
Tchernyshófe, I. E., actor and playwright, [217]
Tennyson, Sir Alfred, mentioned, [173], [174], [186]
Terrorism and Nihilism compared, [102]
Thackeray, William Makepeace, mentioned, [178]
Thought, advanced European, [267]
Tkretiaóvskiy, son of a priest, studies
at Moscow, [22];
travels to Amsterdam and Paris, [22];
studies at the Paris University, [22];
his services to Russian poetry, [22]
Tocqueville, Alexis de, Democracy in America, censored in Russia, [97]
Tolstáya, Countess A. A., [121]
Tolstóy, Count Alexei Konstantínovitch, poet, historical novelist, and playwright, [185], [214], [215];
becomes Head of the Imperial Hunt, [215]
Tolstóy, Lyoff Nicolaievich, sketch of his life and works, [110]-[148];
his contributions to The Contemporary, [110];
birth and ancestry of, [111];
loses his father and mother when young, [111];
educated by relatives, [111];
enters military service in the Caucasus, [112];
his life during and after the Crimean War, [112]-[115];
takes part in the siege of Silistria and the battle of Balakláva, [112];
besieged in Sebastopol, [112];
goes to St. Petersburg, [113];
becomes acquainted with Turguéneff, [113];
co-edits The Bell, [113];
in search of an ideal, [115]-[118];
his artistic power, [117];
his descriptive talent, [117];
his small stories, [118]-[121];
his educational work, [120]-[121];
his marriage, [121];
family traditions, [122];
sketch of his War and Peace, [125];
of his Anna Karénina, [126], [127];
his honest artistic genius, [128];
his religious crisis, [129]-[138];
his views on property and labor, [130];
his dislike of the Russian Government, [131];
his thoughts on suicide, [134];
his love of the peasant masses, [134];
his idea of earning his own living, [135];
reforms his life, [137];
his plain food, [137];
philosophical reasons for his conduct, [137];
his interpretation of the Christian teaching, [138]-[142];
his influence, [148];
references to, [4], [6], [35], [58], [151], [152], [169], [201], [202], [223], [228], [229], [250], [278], [281], [296], [297], [298], [300], [308], [319]
Tolstóy, Nicholas, dies of consumption, [120]
Tolstóyism, [305]
Tramps and thieves, idyll of, [303]
Tramps and outcasts of Russian large cities, [242]
Tramps, Górkiy’s species of, [255]
Tramps of Southern Russia, [252]
Transbaikalian folk-lore, [10]
Tsar, absolute power of the, [267]
Tsar’s authority, divine origin of, [18]
Turanian language, [5]
Turguéneff, Nicholas, political writer, [277];
member of the Decembrists, [277]
Turguéneff, Ivan Sergeyevich, last message of, to Russian writers, [3];
sketch of his life and works, [89]-[109];
the greatest novel writer of his century, [89];
his high sense of the beautiful, [89];
his novels a succession of scenes, [91];
the qualities of a pessimist and lover of mankind combined in him, [93];
extract from his Correspondence, [95], [96];
his pessimism, [96];
threatened with being sent to Siberia, [96];
a sketch of his Rúdin, [97], [98];
extracts from, [98], [99];
his most artistic work, A Nobleman’s Retreat, [100];
his life-picture of a Russian girl, [100];
extracts from his Fathers and Sons, and Hamlet and Don Quixote, [105], [106];
his attitude towards Bazároff, [106], [107];
wreck of his hopes in reform movement, [107];
his death in Paris, [109];
references to, [4], [6], [31], [39], [46], [50], [52], [58], [84], [85], [110], [118], [151], [152], [157], [169], [171], [175], [177], [179], [180], [201], [202], [212], [215], [223], [225], [226], [228], [239], [247], [252], [253], [258], [265], [267], [269], [272], [274], [275], [281], [291], [293], [295], [300], [302], [303], [304], [308], [314], [315]
Turkish War of 1877, [124]
Turks, tales from the, [7]
Tyútcheff, Th., Russian poet, [183]

Uhland, Ludwig, mentioned, [33]
Ultramontanes, Orthodox, [270]
Ultra-realistic school of Russian folk-novelists, [234]
Universal religion, elements of a, [144], [145]
Universal understanding, criterion of, [298]
Universal welfare, a desire for, [141]
Upper classes, superstitions of the, [146]
Ural-Altayan language, [4]
Uspénsky, Gleb, folk-novelist, artistic descriptions of, [222];
his ethnographic sketches, [243];
his views on ownership of land, [246]

Varingiar, the Scandinavian, [32]
Vaudeville on the Russian stage, [195]
Venevítinoff, poet, [62], [287]
Vengeance, question of, [128]
Venguéroff, S., gifted Russian critic, [104], [172];
author of biographical dictionary of Russian authors, [172]
Vereschágin, Vasili, Russian painter, [124]
Versification, forms of, [173]
laws of rhythmical, [23]
Verstóvskiy’s Askóld’s Grave (opera), [13]
Village-community, future of the, [222]
Village communities, idyllic illusions about, [245];
drawbacks of, [247]
Village life, foundations of, [244];
dark sides of, [224]
Village life and humour, [69]
Village people, typical, [222]
Virgil, mentioned, [24]
Vladímir, the Fair Sun, Kieff Prince, table of, [8]
Voinarsóky, Russian patriot, exiled to Siberia, [36]
Volhýnian annals, [14]
Volkhónskaya, Princess, Tolstóy’s mother, [111]
Voltaire, François, sarcasm of, [4];
mentioned, [193]
Vorontsova-Dáshkova, Princess, aids Catherine II. in her coup-d’état, [26];
nominated President of the Academy of Sciences, [26];
assists in compiling a Russian dictionary, [26]
Vovtchók, Márko, folk-novelist, [226]
Vvedénskiy, prose translator, [187]

Wagner’s operas, librettos of, [296]
War correspondents, [124]
Weinberg, P., translator of poems, [186]
Welfare of man, the greatest, [141]
West Siberian villages, life in, [248]
Western civilization, Russia looked to, for inspiration, [119]
Western Europe, languages of, [3]
mediæval city-republics of, [15]
struggles for freedom in, [97], [272]
Russia’s great conflict with, [122]
influence of, on Russian art, [305]
Western influences, struggle against intrusion of, in Russia, [16]
Westerners, [266], [269], [270]
White-Russian literature, [6]
Wiener, Leo, great knowledge of Russian literature, [12 n.];
Anthology of Russian Literature from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, [12] n.
Wine and women, an inspiration for producing poetry, [287]
Wízin, Von (Fonvizin), writer of comedies, [26];
The Brigadier, [27];
Nédorosl, [27];
creator of the Russian national drama, [27];
his realistic tendency, [27];
Secretary to Count Pánin, [27], [194]
Wolff, Christian, natural philosopher, [23]
Women, energy of Russian, [304] slavery of, [290]
Women in Russian revolutionary movements, [109]
Women, their part in the development of Russia, [33]
Women’s rights, fighters for, [304]
Wordsworth, William, mentioned, [44], [186]

Yaroslavni, lamentations of, [12]
Yásnaya Polyána, Tolstóy’s estate, [111], [113], [116], [130]
Yazýkoff, poet, [62]
Young men, reckless heartlessness of, [310]
Young Russia, [136] revival of, [101]
Yúshkova, P. I., Tolstóy’s aunt, [111]

Zabyélin, historian, [268]
Zagóskin, historical novelist, [64]
Zasódimskiy, folk-novelist, [248]
Zasúlitch, Véra, trial of, [135]
Zemstvo Statisticians, [231]
Zhúkóvskiy, romantic poet, [32];
translates works of European poets and the classics, [33];
his ultraromanticism, [33];
his appeal to human nature, [33]
Zlatovrátskiy, folk-novelist, [246]
Zola, Émile, realism in first writings of, [85];
mentioned, [222], [238], [314]