Russian literature - kniaz Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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]

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