Russian literature - kniaz Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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]