(Those important according to volume and contents).[a4]
- 1. To P. V. Verigin (on the harm and benefit of printing). November 21, 1895.
- 2. John Manson (“Patriotism and Peace”). December, 1895.
- 3. Ernest Crosby (“On Non-resistance”). December, 1895–February, 1896.
- 4. To M. A. Sopotsko (“On the Church Deception”). March 16, 1896.
- 5. To the Ministers of Justice and the Interior (on the subject of the arrest of Mme. M. N. Kholevinsky). April 20, 1896.
- 6. To Madame A. M. Kalmikov (“A Letter to the Liberals”). August–September, 1896.
- 7. To E. Schmidt (“To the editor of a German paper”). October 12, 1896.
- 8. To P. V. Verigin (an answer to the objections to printing). October 14, 1896.
- 9. To the commander of the Irkutsk Disciplinary Battalion (on the refusal of P. Olkhovik and C. Sereda from military service). October 22, 1896.
- 10. To the Commander of the Ekaterinograd Disciplinary Battalion (on the refusal of the Dukhobors from military service). November 1, 1896.
- 11. To the Countess S. A. Tolstoi (on leaving Yasnaya Polyana). July 8, 1897.
- 12. To the Swedish papers (with the suggestion that the Nobel prize be awarded to the Dukhobors). August–September, 1897.
- 13. To the Emperor (about the Molokans). October, 1897.
- 14. To the Peterburgskaia Viedomosti (about the Molokans). October, 1897.
- 15. To the Russkia Viedomosti (about aid for the famine-stricken). February 21, 1898.
- 16. To G. H. Gibson—of the American colony Georgia (on agricultural communities). March, 1898.
- 17. To the Russian papers (on the Dukhobors). March 20, 1898.
- 18. To the English papers (on the Dukhobors). March 18, 1898.
- 19. To N (“A letter to an officer”). December, 1898–January, 1899.
- 20. To the Swedish Group (on the means for attaining universal peace). January–February, 1899.
- 21. To Prince G. M. Volkonsky (“On the Transvaal War”). December 4, 1899.
- 22. To A. I. Dvoriansky (“On religious education”). December 13, 1899.
D. Themes
(Mentioned in the Journal)[a5]
- 1. “On Religious Education” ([February 13, 1896], in answer to a letter of V. S. Grinevich).
- 2. “The story of what a man lives through in this life who committed suicide in a past life” ([February 13, 1896]).
- 3. “Pictures of Samara life: the steppe, the struggle between the nomadic patriarchal principle and the agricultural culture” ([June 19, 1896]).
- 4. “Hadji Murad” ([July 19, 1896], under the same title).
- 5. “Suicide of the old man, Persianninov” ([September 14, 1896]).
- 6. “The substitution of a child in an orphan asylum” ([September 14, 1896]).
- 7. “A wife’s deception of her passionate, jealous husband: his suffering, struggle and the enjoyment of forgiveness” ([November 22, 1896]).
- 8. “A description of the oppression of the serfs and later the same oppression through land ownership, or rather, the being deprived of it” ([November 22, 1896]).
- 9. “Notes of a madman” ([December 26, 1896]).
- 10. “The theme: A passionate young man in love with a mentally diseased woman” ([July 16, 1897]).
- 11. The theme “In pendant to Hadji Murad”: “Another Russian outlaw, Grigori Nicholaev” ... ([November 14, 1897]).
- 12. “Sergius” ([December 13, 1897], “Father Sergius”).
- 13. “Alexander I” ([December 13, 1897], “Posthumous notes of the monk, Fedor Kuzmich”).
- 14. “Persianninov” ([December 13, 1897]).
- 15. “The story of Petrovich—a man who died a pilgrim” ([December 13, 1897], “Korni Vasiliev”).
- 16. “The legend of the descent of Christ into Hell and the resurrection of Hell” ([December 13, 1897], “The resurrection of Hell and its destruction”).
- 17. “The Forged Coupon” ([December 13, 1897], under the same title).
- 18. “A substituted child” ([December 13, 1897]).
- 19. “The drama of the Christian resurrection” ([December 13, 1897]).
- 20. “Resurrection—the trial of a prostitute” ([December 13, 1897], Resurrection).
- 21. “An outlaw killing the defenceless” ([December 13, 1897]).
- 22. “Mother” ([December 13, 1897]).
- 23. “An execution in Odessa” ([December 13, 1897], Divine and human).
- 24. “A bit of fiction, in which would be clearly expressed the flowing quality of man: that he, one and the same man, is now an evil-doer, now an angel, now a wise man, now an idiot, now a strong man, now the most impotent being” ([March 21, 1898]).
- 25. “Everything depends, to what one directs one’s consciousness” ([November 14, 1898]).
- 26. “On why the people are corrupted” ([November 25, 1898]).
[a3] This list has been compiled not only from Tolstoi’s Journal, but from other sources. As far as can be judged from the Journal, Tolstoi during some months, while busied with the revision of some one of his manuscripts, would at the same time not write but only consider some other bit of work; this kind of creative work is noted in the list as “planned.”
[a4] All these letters have been printed, if not in Russia then abroad; in those instances where a letter has been printed under a definite title, that title is enclosed in quotation marks.
[a5] In parentheses I have given the dates in which he mentions the theme and the final title of the theme as it was developed.