The diary of a Russian lady

by Varvara Dukhovskaia

John Long, Ltd., Publishers, London. 1917

INDEX

• A
• Abruzzi, Prince of, [391]
• Aden, [425], [442]
• Admirers, see [Love affairs]
• Adriatic, storm in, [309]
• Afghan Pretender, [508]
• Alexandria, [299], [308]
• America, journey across, [329-35]
• Americans—manners, etc., [199], [200], [205-208], [217], [309], [321-2], [332], [343]
• Amou-Daria river, [492], [509]
• Amour Provinces, refer to [Siberia]
• Amour river, [511]
• Anarchists in Russia, [144], [147]
• —New York, [320]
• Andidjan disturbances, [488], [496], [505]
• Aoste, Prince Amédée de, [155]
• Armenians in Erzeroum, see [Erzeroum]
• Astrakhan, [513], [514]
• Athens, [298]
• Atlantic voyage, [316-320]
• B
• Baku, [489]
• Balkan troubles, [73]
• Barcelona, [263]
• Batavia, [416-20]
• “Batchas,” [516]
• Batoum, [126]
• Beethoven—Birthplace, [236]
• —Anecdote, [407]
• Bellinfanti, Señorita Estrella, [395], [396]
• Berlin Congress, [120], [125]
• Bernardines, Convent of, [253]
• Bernhardt, Sarah, [145-6]
• Betrothal, [66]
• Biarritz, [39], [252]
• —Bathing incident, [253]
• Bicycling, [510], [519]
• Bobrinsky, Princess (Countess Dürkheim), [233]
• Bokhara, [487], [492], [514-15]
• Bonn, [236]
• Boulogne-sur-mer, [159]
• Bourbon, Prince Jaime de, [519]
• Brest, [249]
• Brindisi, [309]
• Brussels, [19]
• Bull-fights, [255], [257-61]
• Buriates, [511]
• C
• Cairo, [299], [302], [307], [483]
• Canton, [465-7]
• Carisbrooke, [244]
• Casamicciola earthquake, [229]
• Caspian, Ice in, [523]
• Castellamare, [226]
• Caucasus, [60]
• Cernobbio, [193], [199], [210]
• Certosa Convent, [218], [229]
• Ceylon, [423], [444-7]
• Chamonix, [185]
• Channel crossings, [21], [160], [163-4]
• Chicago World’s Fair, [322-34]
• Childhood and education, [13-21]
• Chillon, [182]
• China and the Chinese, [346], [380], [383], [387]
• Boxer Rising, etc., [534], [536]
• “Boys,” [342]
• Women, [345], [401-2]
• See also names of places
• Chino-Japanese War, [390-1]
• Cock-fighting and wolf-hunting, [147]
• Commander Islands, [455]
• Como, [193], [196]
• Constantinople, [291]
• Copenhagen Exhibition, [270]
• Coptic village, [305]
• Corea, [398], [453]
• Corniche Railway, [251]
• Coronation Ceremonies
• Alexander III, [151-5]
• Nicholas II, [435-6]
• Cowes, [244]
• Crimea, [52]
• Czar, see [Tzar]
• D
• Dauville Races, [282]
• Début in Society, [33]
• Denmore, Lady, [298]
• Dieppe, [164], [282]
• Dolgorouki, Prince, [249], [287]
• Dolgik, [15], [48], [141]
• Domestic life, [135]
• Doumtcheff, Kostia, violinist, [383]
• Doukhovskoy, General, see [Sergy]
• Doukhow, Wilhelm, [379]
• Dürkheim, Countess (neé Princess Bobrinsky), [233]
• Duse, Eleonora, [284]
• E
• Egypt, [299-308]
• Emperor of Russia, see [Tzar]
• Empress Dowager, [315]
• England, [21], [161-3], [240-6]
• Erzeroum, [98-130]
• Armenians, [99], [100], [102], [103], [109], [116], [124]
• Armenians and Turks, [123], [125], [126]
• Christian Schools, [117], [124]
• Earthquake, [105]
• Russians, feeling towards, [104], [120]
• Sanitation, [102]
• Tribute to Sergy’s administration, [131]
• Typhus, [108], [118]
• Euphrates, [116], [125]
• Evil Eye, [155]
• F
• Ferni-Germano, [284]
• Flirtations, see [Love affairs]
• Florence, [217], [218]
• France
• National Festival, [165]
• See also names of places
• Fuji-Yama, [347]
• G
• Galitzine, Prince Theodore, [13], [14]
• Death, [268]
• Galitzine, Princess (Mamma), [14], [19], [20], [75], [86], [519]
• Geneva, [187], [189]
• Genoa, [250]
• German frontier experience, [156]
• Gervais, Admiral, [288]
• Golde Tribe, [381], [383]
• Grand Duchess Olga Fedorovna, [74], [85]
• Grand Dukes
• Michael, [150], [154]
• Nicholas, [149]
• Nicolas Constantinovitch, [494], [495], [499], [518]
• Sergius, [288]
• H
• Harems and Harem life, [107], [112], [293], [295]
• Health exhibition, [240]
• Helsingfors, [273]
• Holland, [237]
• Holland, Mr. and Mrs., [298], et seq.
• Hong Kong, [405-7], [463], [472]
• Horses, Adventures with, [48], [64], [71], [224], [267], [268], [274]
• I
• Illnesses, [36], [137]
• Interlaken, [179-81]
• Ischia, [229-31]
• Italy, King Humbert and Queen Margareta of, [213], [214], [217]
• J
• Jalta, [52]
• Japan, [347-60], [399]
• Chino-Japanese War, [390-1]
• Russia, feeling against, war rumours, etc., [400], [460]
• See also names of places
• Japanese Sea, [357], [361], [397]
• Java—Batavia, [416-20]
• Jews in Russia, [143]
• Johore, Sultan of, [475], [476]
• K
• Kahns, [459], [460]
• Kaiser Wilhelm II., visit to Denmark, [272]
• Kamtchatka, [455]
• Kars, [90], [91], [131]
• Kars to Erzeroum, [94-7]
• Kassatkin-Rostovski, Prince, [354]
• Kazan, [511]
• Khabarovsk, [368-84], [387-92], [453]
• Tigers, [454]
• Railway to Vladivostock, [387], [456]
• Khodinka Field, [144], [248], [288]
• Kirghees, [493]
• Kissingen, [533]
• Kobe, [355], [356]
• Komaroff, General, [87]
• Kontski, Antoine, [402], [403], [404], [406], [456], [510]
• Kopanski, General, [368], [369], [384], [393]
• Korea, see [Corea]
• Korff, Baron, [313], [314], [343], [344], [375]
• “Koulikovo Field” Anniversary, [141]
• Kourakine, Princess, [33]
• Kremlin, [151]
• Kronstadt, [269]
• Kurds, [114-5], [124], [357]
• L
• Latin Road, [222]
• Lebrun, Mme., Anecdote of, [219]
• Li Hung Chang, [435]
• Liszt, [407]
• Lobanoff-Rostovski, Prince, [347]
• London, [21], [161-3], [240]
• Longchamps, [279]
• Loubet, President, [526]
• Lourdes, [251]
• Loussavoritch-Vank, Monastery of, [118]
• Love Affairs, Flirtations and Admirers, [17], [21], [22], [24], [27], [28], [35], [37], [39], [43], [44], [45], [48], [50], [53], [56], [57-9], [60], [72], [74], [76], [139], [148], [171], [197], [311], [315], [343], [424], [480], [482]
• Lucerne, [171], [172]
• M
• Macao, [468-71]
• Madrid—Bull-fights, etc., [255-61]
• Malmö, [270]
• Marriage with General Doukhovskoy, [70], [133]
• Marseilles, [431]
• Masowah, Italian Soldiers from, [440]
• Mediterranean Voyage, [430]
• Mechrali, Brigand, [123], [127]
• Melikoff, General Loris, [73], [76], [103]
• Menaggio, [197]
• Merv, [492]
• Milan, [192], [194], [211-13]
• Monaco, [266]
• Monsoon, [442]
• Mont Blanc Excursion, [185]
• Monte Carlo, [266], [432]
• Montenegro, Prince of, [35]
• Montreux, [182-3]
• Moscow—Gaieties, Society doings, etc., [135], [137], [142], [148], [248], [268], [274], [284], [286], [313]
• Mouravieff-Amourski, Count, [376]
• Munich, [235]
• Music, Love of—Music lessons and musical triumphs, [42], [286-7], [311], [404], [454], [479], [499], [510], [513], [520]
• Musicians, see their names
• Mussulmans of the Russian Empire, [511-12]
• N
• Nagasaki, [359], [399], [452], [460]
• Nagasaki to Shanghai, [400]
• Naples, [27], [224-5], [231], [310]
• “Natives and Mustard,” [501]
• Nerves and Moods, [154], [174], [194], [198], [366], [499]
• New York, [320-6]
• Plot to assassinate Sergy, [327-8]
• Newport, [245]
• Niagara, [330]
• Nice, [26], [251], [265]
• O
• Oldenbourg, Prince of, [505], [507], [509]
• Oussouri River, [373]
• P
• Pacific Voyage, [340-6]
• Paris, [19], [87], [167-70], [316], [434]
• Exhibitions, [276-81], [524-31]
• Peissenberg Sanatorium, [232-5]
• Perim Islands, [441]
• Persia, Shah of, [280], [282], [285]
• Persian Princes, [60], [61]
• Petrograd, see [St. Petersburg]
• Plague, [505-8]
• Pompeii, [225]
• Port Saïd, [429], [440], [485]
• Portraits of the Authoress, [27], [218], [220]
• Prospezi, Signorina Sofia, of the Hôtel Diomède, [226]
• R
• Red Sea, [426], [428]
• Rhine Voyage, [236-7]
• Rigi, Ascent of, [175-7]
• Roerberg, Aunt Nathalie, [60]
• Roerberg, General, [491]
• Romanelli, [219]
• Rome, [221]
• Rosen, Baron, [197], [222]
• Rothschild’s dinner—Musician-guests, [407]
• Rotterdam, [238]
• Rougitzki, Volodia, Boy-Pianist, [510]
• Rubinstein in Moscow, [146]
• Ryde Family, [22-32], [240], [242]
• Ryde, I.O.W., [241], [245]
• S
• Saigon, [409], [410-12], [474]
• St. Gothard, [190-1]
• St. Petersburg—Gaieties, Society doings, etc., [33], [42], [50], [56], [133], [487], [505], [510], [518], [537]
• St. Petersburg to Tashkend, [489-94]
• Samarkand, [493]
• Samoyedes at Geneva, [189]
• San Francisco, [338-9]
• San Remo, [265]
• San Sebastian, [39-40], [254]
• Sandown, [242]
• Saragossa—A Bull-fight, [257-61]
• Seliverstoff, General—Assassination, [326]
• Sergy (General Doukhovskoy), [61-66], [69]
• Appointments, distinctions, &c.
• Amour Provinces, Governor of, [313], [314]
• Ardagan Exploit—Cross of St. George, [85]
• Caucasus, Army of—Chief of Staff, [73]
• Chinese Order, [436]
• Coronation gift from the Tzar, [155]
• Demarcation Commission, President of, [90]
• Erzeroum, Governor-General of, [91]
• General-Lieutenant, [249]
• General-in-Chief, [510]
• Italian Order, [212]
• Légion d’Honneur, Grand Cross, [530]
• Moscow Circuit—Chief of Staff, [134]
• Siberian Deputation, presentation to Tzar, [435]
• State Council, Member of, [537]
• Turco-Russian War, [80]
• Turkestan, Governor-General of, [487]
• Resignation, [537]
• Cure at Kissingen, [533-4]
• Devotion as husband, [135], [167-8]
• Failure of Health, [524], [535], [537]—Death, [537]
• Shah of Persia, [280], [282], [285]
• Shanghai, [400], [401-2], [462]
• Shanklin, [241], [243], [246]
• Siberia—Sergy as Governor-General of the Amour Provinces, [362]
• Colonists and Emigrants, [370], [378]
• Convict Labour, [371], [377]
• Cossack Settlements, [373], [385]
• Official duties, [376-7]
• Postal Arrangements, [379]
• Roads, [371], [372]
• see also [Khabarovsk]
• Sick Leave by Stratagem, [133]
• Singapore, [413-14], [421], [449], [475-6]
• Singapore to Suez, [478]
• Skobeleff, General, [145]
• Sledging with dogs, [383]
• Socotra, [424]
• Sorrento, [226]
• Soungatcha, travelling on, [372]
• Spa, [17]
• Starving Plain, [495]
• Steppes of Central Asia, [491]
• Stockholm, [269]
• Stuttgart, [21-26]
• Suez, [428], [441], [482]
• Suez Canal, [440]
• Sumatra, Cannibalism in, [478]
• Sunday in England, [21], [246]
• Sven-Hedin, [515]
• Sweden, King Oscar of, [246]
• Swetchine, Aunt and Cousins, [42], [86], [87]
• T
• Tashkend, [495-502], [515-7], [519-22], [535-7]
• Tashkend to St. Petersburg, [489], [502-4], [522]
• Tiflis, [60], [65], [73], [131]
• Tiflis to Vladicaucasus, [67], [73]
• Tifountai, [384], [435], [454]
• “Tiger,” [137]
• Tokio, [352-55]
• Toumanoff, Prince, [113], [490]
• Toutolmine, General, [519]
• Trouville, [282]
• Turco-Russian War, [73], [75], [79-93]
• Turkish Barbarism, [103], [118]
• Turks in Erzeroum, [123], [125], [126]
• Turkestan, [487], [516]
• see also names of places
• Typhoon, [355]
• Typhus fever in Kurdistan, [89], [92]
• Tzars
• Alexander II., [33], [133], [137]
• Assassination, [142]
• Ghost, [147]
• Alexander III.
• Attempt on, during voyage to Japan, [354]
• Coronation, [151-5]
• Death, [388]
• Nicholas II.
• Betrothal, [388]
• Coronation, [435-6]
• V
• Vanderbilt, Mrs., [326]
• Vatican, [221-2]
• Venice, [30], [215]
• Ventnor, [244]
• Verona, [250]
• Vesuvius, [224], [227-9]
• Vladivostock, [362-7], [394-6], [453], [459]
• Volga, voyages on, [140-1], [510-14]
• W
• Weidemann, Frau, and her boarders, [199-210]
• Wight, Isle of, [241-6]
• Windt, Mr. de, [383]
• Y
• Yang-tse-kiang river, [400]
• Yokohama, [347-51]