Russian literature - kniaz Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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.