Anton Chekhov

by Donald Rayfield

  Society for the Protection of Animals, and Journal of … 1, 2, 3

  Society of Russian Writers [Russkoe literaturnoe obshchestvo] 1, 2

  ‘Sod’ [‘Svóloch’], see Mongoose

  Soǧuk-Su (Crimean estate) 1

  Sokólnikov, Aleksándr [Shúra] Gavrílovich Khrushchióv- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Sokólnikov, Gavriíl Aleksándrovich Khrushchióv- (1845–90) 1

  Sokólnikova, Anna Ivanovna Khrushchióva- (1847–88) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28

  Sokólnikova, Nadézhda [Nádia] Gavrílovna Khrushchióva- (born 1877) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Sokólniki (Moscow park) 1

  Sokolóv, Iván Stepánovich (1862–1906, writer) 1 ‘At Home’ [‘Doma’] 1

  Sokolóva [Alekséeva], Zinaída Sergéevna (1865–1950, Stanislavsky’s sister) 1

  Solomon (King) 1

  Solovióva, Ánna Arkádievna (secretary at Fragments) 1

  Solovióva [Beriózina], Ól´ga Mikháilovna (estate owner) 1

  Solovtsóv [Fiódorov], Nikolái Nikoláevich (1858–1902) 1, 2

  Sorbonne 1, 2

  Sorokhtín, Nikolái Pávlovich and family 1, 2

  Spanish fly, see Cantharides

  Sparrow Hills [Vorob´ióvy gory] 1

  The Spectator [Zritel´] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Spencer, Herbert (1820–1903) 1, 2

  Sredín, Dr Leoníd Valentínovich (1860–1909, Yalta doctor) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Srediná, Sófia Petróvna (born 1858) 1

  Srétensk 1

  Srúlev (Taganrog school friend) 1

  Staël de Holstein, Baron 1

  Stálin, Iósif Vissariónovich (1879–1953) 1

  Stanislávsky [Alekséev], Konstantín Sergéevich (1863–1938) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31

  Stárov, Vladímir Dmítrievich (Taganrog Latin teacher) 1, 2

  Stefanóvsky, Iván 1

  Storozhénko, Prof. Nikolái Il´ich (1836–1906) 1, 2

  Strastnói Boulevard 1

  Strauch, Dr Maxim (1856–1904, gynæcologist) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Strauss, Rudolf (critic) 1

  Strekozá, see The Dragonfly

  Strél´na (park in Moscow) 1, 2

  Strépetova [Pogódina], Pelagéia Antípievna (1850–1903, actress) 1

  Strindberg, August (1849–1912) 1, 2 The Father 1

  Stuart, Baron Nikolái Dmítrievich 1, 2

  Stúlli, Fiódor Stepánovich (1834–1907) 1, 2 ‘My Marriage’ [‘Moia zhenit´ba’] 1, 2

  Stuttgart 1

  Sudermann, Hermann (1857–1928, dramatist) 1 Sodoms Ende 1, 2

  Súdogda 1, 2, 3

  Sudraka, King 1 Poor Charudatta (falsely attributed) 1

  Suez Canal 1

  Sukhótin, Mikhaíl Sergéevich (1850–1914, Tolstoy’s son-in-law) 1

  Sukhúm(i) 1, 2, 3

  Sulerzhítsky, Leopól´d [Lev] Antónovich (1872–1916, Tolstoyan) 1, 2, 3

  Sumbátov [Iúzhin], Prince Aleksándr Ivánovich (1857–1927) 1, 2, 3, 4

  Súmy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

  Sung Liu Li 1

  Surgery [Khirurgiia] 1, 2

  The Surgical Chronicle [Khirurgicheskaia letopis’] 1

  Suvórin, Alekséi Alekséevich [‘Dauphin’] (1862–1937) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30

  Suvórin, Alekséi Sergéevich (1834–1912) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94 At the End of the Century: Love [V kontse veka: liubov´] 1

  The Question 1, 2

  Sketches and Tableaux [Ocherki i kartinki] 1

  Tatiana Repina 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Suvórin, Borís Alekséevich (1879–1940) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Suvórin, Mikhaíl Alekséevich (1860–1936) 1, 2, 3

  Suvórin, Valerián Alekséevich (1866–88) 1, 2, 3, 4

  Suvórin, Vladímir [Volódia] Alekséevich (1867–87) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 An Old Eye Is No Bar to the Heart [Stary glaz – serdtsu ne prikaz] 1

  Suvórina [Kolomniná], Aleksándra Alekséevna (1858–1880) 1, 2

  Suvórina [Miasoédova], Anastasía [Nástia] Alekséevna (1877–after 1922) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

  Suvórina, Ánna Ivánovna (1837–1873), Suvorin’s first wife) 1, 2, 3, 4

  Suvórina [Orfánova], Ánna Ivánovna (1858–1936, Suvorin’s second wife) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35

  Suvórina, Zinaída Sergéevna 1

  Sventsítsky, Dr Vikénti Antónovich (born 1868) 1

  Svéshnikov, Nikolái Ivánovich (1839–99, book dealer) 1

  Svety i teni, see Chiaroscuro

  Sviatlóvsky, Dr Vladímir Vladímirovich (1851–1901) 1 How Doctors Live and Die [Kak zhivut i umiraiut vrachi] 1

  Sviatýe Góry 1

  Svobódin, Pável Matvéevich (1850–92, actor) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13

  Sweden, Swedish 1, 2

  Swiss, Switzerland 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Symbolism, symbolist 1

  Synod, The Holy 1, 2, 3, 4

  Sýtin, Iván Dmítrievich (1851–1934, publisher) 1, 2, 3

  Syphilis, see Venereal diseases

  Syromiátnikov, Sergéi Nikoláevich (1864–1934, journalist) 1

  Taganróg 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69

  Taganrog Herald [Taganrogski vestnik] 1, 2

  Taganrog Public Library 1, 2, 3, 4

  Taganrog Theatre 1

  Tálezh (village near Melikhovo) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13

  Talk of the World [Mirskoi Tolk] 1, 2, 3

  Tambóv 1, 2

  Tán´ka (Aleksandr Chekhov’s servant) 1, 2

  Tarabrín, Dr Geórgi Iákovlevich (born 1853, Taganrog school friend) 1

  Tatars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Táube, Dr Iúli Románovich (1858–after 1924) 1, 2

  Tchaikóvsky [Chaikóvsky], Ippolít Il´ich (1843–1927, shipping agent) 1, 2

  Tchaikóvsky [Chaikóvsky], Modést Il´ich (1850–1916, critic) 1, 2, 3, 4

  Tchaikóvsky, Piotr Il´ich (1840–93, composer) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Bèla 1

  Teatral, see The Theatregoer

  Teatrál´no-Literatúrny Komitét, see Imperial Theatres Committee

  Le Temps 1

  Teréntieva, María Fiódorovna (teacher at Melikhovo) 1, 2

  Ternóvskaia, Nadézhda [Nádia] Aleksándrovna (1880–1942) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Ternóvsky, Father Aleksándr Iákovlevich (1855–1927, archpriest) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Téstov, Iván Iákovlevich (Moscow restaurateur) 1, 2, 3

  Théâtre Bouffe 1

  The Theatregoer[Teatral] 1, 2

  The Thunderstorm 1

  Tibet 1

  Tiflis (Tbilisi) 1, 2

  Tikhomírov, Iosafát Aleksándrovich (1872–198, actor) 1

  Tíkhonov, Alekséi Alekséevich, see Lugovoi

  Tíkhonov, Vladímir Alekséevich (1857–1914) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Timiriázev, Prof. Klíment Arkádievich (1843–1920, zoologist) 1

  Titóv, Spiridón Fiódorovich (Anton’s godfather, Taganrog merchant) 1, 2

  Tiumén´ 1

  Tiútchev, Fiódor Ivánovich (1803–73, poet) 1

  Toból´ river 1

  Tochilósky (Taganrog moneylender) 1

  Tolokó
nnikovs (family of village factory owners) 1, 2, 3, 4

  Tolstáia, María L´vóvna (1871–1906) 1

  Tolstáia [Bers], Countess Sofia Andréevna (1844–1919) 1, 2, 3

  Tolstáia [Sukhótina], Tatiána L´vóvna (1864–1950) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Tolstóy, Alekséi Konstantínovich (1817–75, poet) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ‘Spring Feelings of an Unbridled Ancient’ [‘Vesennie chuvstva neobuzdannogo drevnego’] 1

  The Death of Ivan the Terrible [Smert´ Ivana Groznogo] 1

  Tsar´ Fiodor 1, 2

  Tolstóy, Dmítri Andréevich (1823–89, Minister for Education 1866–80) 1

  Tolstóy, Lev L´vóvich (1869–1945) 1

  Tolstóy, Count Lev Nikoláevich (1828–1910) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47 Anna Karenina 1, 2, 3, 4

  The Death of Ivan Ilyich 1

  The Fruits of Enlightenment 1

  The Kreutzer Sonata 1

  Resurrection [Voskresenie] 1, 2

  Tom river 1

  Tomsk 1

  Tosná river 1, 2

  Toulouse 1

  Tréfolev, Leoníd Nikoláevich (1839–1905) 1, 2

  Trésor (Suvorins’ dog) 1

  Tretiakóv, Iván V. (1855–?) 1

  Tretiakóv, Leoníd V. (1857–89) 1, 2, 3

  Tretiakóv, Pável Mikháilovich (1832–98, gallery founder) 1, 2, 3, 4

  Troyat, Henri 1

  Tsarítsyn [Volgográd] 1

  Tsarítsyno (near Moscow) 1

  Tsúrikov, Piotr Grigórievich (mill-owner) 1

  Tsúrikova, Ánna Sergéevna (1818–1907, governor of Voskresensk school) 1

  Tsvetáev, Dr (Voskresensk doctor) 1

  Tsyplakóva [Shákina], María [Másha] Timoféevna (born 1878, maid at Melikhovo, then in Moscow) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

  Tuberculosis (consumption, ‘white plague’) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48

  Túla 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Turchanínova, Ánna Nikoláevna (1850–1927) 1, 2, 3, 4

  Turchanínova, Varvára Ivánovna (Anna Turchaninova’s eldest daughter) 1

  Turgénev, Ivan Sergéevich (1818–83) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 Don Quixote and Hamlet [Don Kikhot i Gamlet] 1

  A Month in the Country [Mesiats v derevne] 1

  Turkey, Turkish 1

  Túzik (Yalta mongrel) 1, 2

  Tver´ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Tverdokhlióbovo 1, 2, 3

  Tychínkin, Konstantín Semiónovich (chief typesetter) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Tym river 1

  Typhoid 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Typhus 1, 2, 3

  Tyshkó, Lt Èduárd Ivánovich (c.1850–after 1903) 1, 2, 3, 4

  Tyshkó, Rudól’f Ivánovich 1

  Uchán Su 1

  Udmúrt 1

  Ufá xix, 1, 2, 3

  Úglich 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Ugriúmovo (village near Melikhovo) 1, 2

  Uspénsky cathedral (Moscow) 1

  Ukrain-e, -ian 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16

  Undól’sky, Father Pável Vasílievich 1

  Urals 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

  Urban, Jan 1

  Urúsov, Prince Aleksándr Ivánovich (1843–1900, lawyer) 1

  Uspénsky, Dr Sergéi Pávlovich (1857–after 1915) 1, 2, 3

  Útkina, Lídia Nikoláevna (proprietor of The Alarm Clock) 1, 2

  Vagán’kovo cemetery 1, 2

  Vágner, Vladímir Aleksándrovich (1849–1934, zoologist) 1, 2, 3

  Valerian (sedative) 1

  Vál’ter, Dr Vladímir Grigórievich 1, 2

  Varávka, Dr Sergéi Mikháilovich (sanatorium doctor) 1, 2, 3, 4

  Varénikov, Iván Arkádievich and family (Melikhovo neighbours) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Varnék, Dr Leoníd Nikoláevich (born 1858) 1

  Vasilévsky, Ippolít Fiódorovich (1850–1920) 1, 2, 3

  Vasíliev, Dr Nikolái Mikháilovich (1862–after 1924, electrotherapist) 1

  Vasílieva [Miléante], Ól’ga Rodiónovna (born 1882) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

  Vasílieva [Miléante?], Marúsia (born 1897) 1, 2, 3, 4

  Vás’kino 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Vasnetsóv, Víktor Mikháilovich (1848–1926, artist) 1

  Vatican 1

  Velasquez 1

  Vél’de (Moscow restaurateur) 1

  Vendôme, Hotel (Paris) 1, 2

  Venereal diseases 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Venice 1, 2, 3

  Verdi, Giuseppe (1813–1901) 1 Rigoletto 1

  Il trovatore 1

  Vérner, Evgéni and Mikhaíl Antónovich (publishers) 1

  Veselóvsky, Prof. Alekséi Nikoláevich ((1843–1918, man of letters) 1, 2, 3

  Vésta (Levitan’s gun dog) 1

  Vestnik Evropy, see The European Herald

  Vesuvius 1

  Veytaux 1, 2

  Viatka 1

  Viázemsky, Prince V. V. (1810–92, putative Tolstoyan) 1

  Victoria, Hotel (Biarritz) 1

  Victoria, Queen 1

  Vienna 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Vierwaldstättersee 1

  Vignier d’Octon, Dr (1859–1943, writer) 1 Le Paysan dans la littérature française 1

  Vilénkin, V. Ia. 1

  Villefranche 1

  Vinográdov, V. V. 1

  Virgil 1

  Vishnévsky [Vishnevétsky], Aleksándr Leonídovich (1861–1943) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17

  Vítte, Dr Iván Germánovich (1843–1905, council surgeon) 1, 2

  Vítte (Witte) Count Sergéi Iúlievich (1849–1915, finance minister) 1, 2

  Vítzel’ Hotel, Yalta 1

  Vladikavkáz 1, 2

  Vladímir 1, 2

  Vladivostók 1, 2, 3

  Vladýkina, Ól’ga, see Chekhova, Ol’ga Germanovna

  Vólchina river 1

  Vólga 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13

  Volgográd, see Tsaritsyn

  Vol’kenshtéin, Lev Filíppovich (1862–1935, school friend) 1, 2, 3, 4

  Vol’kenshtéin, Mikhaíl Filíppovich (school friend) 1

  Volkhónka 1

  Vólkov, Epifán (Melikhovo peasant) 1, 2

  Vólkovo cemetery (Petersburg) 1

  Voltaire (1694–1778) 1

  Vól’ter, Dr (director, Moscow Zoo) 1, 2

  Vorónezh 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Vorontsóv, Prince 1

  Voskresénsk [Istra] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14

  Voskresénsky-Brilliántov, Aleksandr 1

  Voútzinas, Nikoláos 1

  Vróndy (Taganrog dancing teacher) 1, 2

  Vúkov, Pável Ivánovich (Taganrog class assistant) 1

  Wagner, Richard (1813–83) 1

  Walton, Izaac (1593–1683) 1 The Compleat Angler 1

  War (Crimean, Turkish, Japanese) 1, 2, 3, 4

  Warsaw 1, 2

  The Week [Nedelia] 1, 2

  Whitebrow [Belolóby], Melikhovo farm dog 1

  Weiner Rundschau 1

  Wilson (Moscow masseur) 1

  World Echoes [Mirovýe otgolóski] 1, 2

  Writers’ Charitable Fund [Literaturny fond] 1, 2

  Yakút 1

  Yálta 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43

  Yalta, Hotel 1

  Yalta Mutual Credit 1, 2

  Yávuzlar sanatorium 1, 2

  Yeniséi river 1

  Yugoslavia 1

  Záitsev, Borís Konstantínovich (1881–1972, writer) 1

  Zakhár’in, Prof. Grigóri Antónovich (1829–97) 1, 2

  Zakoriúkins 1, 2

  Zalivái (Melikhovo hound) 1

  Zál’tsa, se
e Salz

  Zan’kovétskaia [Adasóvskaia], María Konstantínovna (1860–1934, actress) 1, 2

  Zatíshie (estate of Mizinova’s uncle, Panafidin) 1, 2

  Zelenói, Lt General Pável Alekséevich (Mayor of Odessa) 1

  Zembrini (Odessa café owner) 1

  Zembulátov, Dr Vasíli Ivánovich (1858–1908) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Zhitómir 1

  Zhizn’, see Life

  Zhivágo (wife to Dr Schwörer) 1

  Zhúleva [Nebol’siná], Ekaterína Nikoláevna (1830–1905, actress) 1

  Zhurnal dlia vsekh, see Everybody’s Magazine

  Zikos, Konstantinos 1

  Znanie, see Knowledge

  Zola, Emile (1840–1902) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 Germinal 1

  J’accuse 1

  Nana 1, 2

  Paris 1

  Dr Pascal 1

  Thérèse Raquin 1

  Zolotarióv, P. P. 1 Flora for Gardeners [Flora sadovodstva] 1

  Zoo, see also Moscow Zoo 1

  Zritel’, see The Spectator

  Zurich 1

  Zvenígorod 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  1. End 1860s: sitting Efrosinia and Egor (left and centre, paternal grandparents), and Anton’s Aunt Liudmila (right); standing Evgenia, Pavel, Mitrofan

  2. 1874 family portrait: standing Vania, Anton, Kolia, Aleksandr, Uncle Mitrofan; sitting Misha, Masha, Pavel, Evgenia, Aunt Liudmila, cousin Georgi

  3. Taganrog in the 1870s

  4. On leaving school, 15 June 1879

  5. ‘The Wedding Season’, a caricature of Taganrog relatives with text by Anton and pictures by his brother Kolia, 1881

  6. ‘He’s been drinking’, a portrait of a medical student (perhaps Anton) by Kolia Chekhov, c. 1882

  7. Students and professors celebrating Tatiana’s Day, 12 January 1882 in Moscow by Kolia Chekhov

  8. Anton with Kolia (sitting)