by Cathy Porter
Schubert, Franz (1797–1828), Austrian composer, Tragic Symphony: 53, 76, 146, 166, 175, 198, 262, 478
Schumann, Robert (1810–56), German composer, ‘Carnaval’ Davidsbündlertänze: 175, 195, 232, 244, 248, 280, 318, 323, 387, 434
Scriabin, Alexander Nikolaevich (1871–1915), pianist and composer: 193, 267
Semyonov, Leonid Dmitrievich (1880–1917), symbolist poet: 402
Semyonov, Sergei Terentevich (1868–1922), peasant writer: 281
Seneca, Lucius (c.4 BC–65 AD), Roman politician, philosopher and writer, Consolation à Marcia; Consolation à Helvini: 189, 200, 216
Sergeenko, Lev Petrovich (1896–1937), actor
Sergeenko, Mikhail Petrovich (1903–37), son of P.A. Sergeenko: 373, 404
Sergeenko, Natalya Petrovna (1891–1966), daughter of P.A. Sergeenko
Sergeenko, Pyotr Alexeevich (1854–1930), writer, How L.N. Tolstoy Lives and Works (A Biography); Tolstoy and His Contemporaries: 181, 187, 218, 221, 226, 241, 424, 487–93, 495, 574–5
Sergei Alexandrovich (1857–1905), govenor-general of Moscow: 114, 138
Serov, Georgy Valentinovich (1894–1929), actor, son of V.A. Serov: 461
Seuron, Anna (died 1922), governess to Tatyana and Maria Lvovna Tolstaya: 65, 159, 537
Severtsev: 148
Severtseva, Vera Petrovna (married name Istomina) (died 1901), niece of Sofia Tolstoy: 525
Shakespeare, William (1564–1616): 67, 300
Shakhovskoi, Dmitry Ivanovich (1861–1940), politician and zemstvo activist, member of the first state Duma and the Constitutional Democrat Party: 147, 548
Shcheglov, Mikhail Alexandrovich: 400
Shcheglovitov, Ivan Grigorevich (1861–1918), Minister of Justice: 452
Shcherbatov, Nikolai Sergeevich, president of the Historical Museum in Moscow: 340, 429–30
Shchurovsky, Vladimir Andreevich (1852–1939), doctor: 292, 304–8, 312, 325, 328–9, 413, 420
Sheremetev, Count: 168
Sheremetev, S.A., aide-de-camp to the Tsar: 577
Sheremeteva, Elena Grigorevna (née Stroganova) (1861–1908), Countess: 103, 107, 117
Shibunin, Vasily (“the military clerk”): 532–3
Shidlovskaya, Vera Alexandrovna (née Isleneva) (1825–1910), aunt of Sofia Tolstoy: 208
Shidlovsky, Stepan Vasilevich (born 1876), peasant: 549
Shingarev, Andrei Ivanovich (1869–1918), doctor and politician: 488, 574
Shirinsky-Shikhmatov, Andrei Alexandrovich, Prince: 278–9
Shishkin, Ivan Ivanovich (1832–98), artist: 100
Shostak, Ekaterina Nikolaevna (née Isleneva) (died 1904), Sofia Tolstoy’s first cousin once removed: 111
Shubinsky, Nikolai Petrovich, lawyer: 433
Shuraev, Ivan Osipovich (born 1887), Yasnaya Polyana peasant: 419
Sidorov, Alexander Alexandrovich: 432
Skalkovsky. Alexander Apollonovich (1841–93), from 1884 Assistant Chief Postmaster: 104
Snegiryov, Vladimir Fyodorovich (1847–1916), gynaecologist, professor at Moscow University: 151, 276, 425, 450, 569
Sobinov, Leonid Vitalevich (1872–1934), singer: 281
Sobolev, Mikhail Nikolaevich (born 1869), tutor to Mikhail Lvovich Tolstoy, later assistant professor at Moscow University: 170, 174, 342
Socrates (c.470–399 BC), Greek philosopher: 232, 259, 316, 328, 382, 439, 491, 567
Soldantenkov, Kuzma Trentevich (1818–1901), owner of a publishing firm: 265
Sollogub, Vladimir Alexandrovich (1813–82), writer: xix, 32, 264
Solovyov, Alexander: 57
Solovyov, M.P. (1841–1901), member of the Chief Department on Press Affairs: 333
Solovyovs, the: 242
Spiers, English governess to the Tolstoy children: 141, 144, 146
Spinoza, Baruch (1632–77), Dutch philosopher: 85, 97, 99
Spiro, Sergei Petrovich, journalist: 421, 428, 567
Sreznevsky, Vsevolod Izmailovich (1867–1936), literary historian: 456
Stakhovich, Alexander Alexandrovich (1830–1913), landowner from Oryol, amateur actor: 443, 537
Stakhovich, Mikhail Alexandrovich (1861–1923), member of the State Council for the Oryol zemstvo, landowner: 88, 91–2, 94–5, 103, 213, 264, 288, 322, 422, 430, 560, 573
Stakhovich, Sofia Alexandrovna (“Zosya”) (1862–1942), close friend of the Tolstoy family: 323, 379, 415,
Stakhoviches, the: 286
Stamo, Eleonora Romanovna (“the lady”), Bessarabian landowner
Stasov, Vladimir Vasilevich (1824–1906), art and music critic: 208–9, 324, 551
Stolypin, Pyotr Arkadevich (1862–1911), statesman and politician: 426, 433
Storozhenko, Nikolai Ilich (1836–1906), professor at Moscow University of Western European Literature: 149, 460
Strakhov, Fyodor Alexeevich (1861–1923), fellow thinker of Tolstoy’s: 540
Strakhov, Nikolai Nikolaevich (1828–96), literary critic and philosopher; ‘Rumours about L.N. Tolstoy’: 103, 128, 230, 454, 526, 534, 536, 542, 578
Strumensky, Stepan Yevgenevich, student, in 1902 in England to help V.G. Chertkov with his publishing work: 266
Sukhotin, Fyodor Mikhailovich (“Dorik”) (1887–1926), son of M.S. Sukhotin: 467
Sukhotin, Lev Mikhailovich (born 1879), son of M.S. Sukhotin: 467
Sukhotin, Mikhail Lvovich (“Mika”, “Mikushka”), grandson of M.S. Sukhotin: 395
Sukhotin, Mikhail Mikhailovich (“Misha”) (1884–1921), son of M.S. Sukhotin: 275, 318
Sukhotin, Mikhail Sergeevich (1850–1914), husband of Tatyana Lvovna Tolstaya: 162, 165–8, 171, 177, 179–80, 182, 192, 249, 261, 267, 271–2, 276, 295, 297, 322–3, 347, 394, 415, 442, 467
Sukhotin, Sergei Mikhailovich (1887–1926), son of M.S. Sukhotin: 467
Sukhotina, Tatyana Lvovna (1864–1950), the Tolstoy’s eldest daughter, Maria Montessori and the New Education; Tanya Tolstaya’s Childhood at Yasnaya Polyana: xix, xxv, 22–3, 25–30, 33, 46, 50–6, 58–9, 61, 63, 65, 68–9, 71, 75–81, 85, 86–7, 91–5, 100–2, 111–4, 131–2, 135–6, 138, 140–4, 146, 153–5, 157–8, 161–173, 175–80, 182, 184–5, 189, 192, 195, 200–3, 205, 208, 210, 212–3, 215, 217–9, 225–7, 230–1, 233–5, 238, 242, 249–51, 253–5, 259, 261–2, 264–5, 267–9, 271–2, 274–9, 283–6, 290–2, 296–7, 300, 302–3, 306–8, 314, 316–7, 319–20, 322–325, 332–3, 339, 345, 354–6, 362, 371–4, 377–9, 385–9, 391, 400–2, 409, 413, 415, 418, 420–4, 427, 431–2, 440, 444, 448, 456, 458, 465, 466–74, 476, 478–82, 484, 486–96, 500–2, 505, 509, 515, 522–5, 536–7, 541, 544, 547, 549, 551–2, 559–61, 563–4, 566–7, 570–3, 575
Sukhotina, Tatyana Mikhailovna (“Tanyushka”, “Tanechka”) (born 1905), daughter of Tatyana Lvovna Tolstaya: 345, 376, 387, 389, 391, 395–6, 414, 418–21, 442, 456, 469, 476, 478, 480, 483, 485, 493–4, 575
Sukhotins, the: 277, 279, 297, 307, 325, 339, 369, 394, 397, 421, 442, 456–7, 459, 539
Sukolyonova, Anna Stepanova (“Nurse”) (1828–1917), peasant from the village of Sudakovov, nurse to the younger Tolstoy children: 480, 571
Sulerzhitsky, Leopold Antonovich (1872–1916), literary critic and producer: 205, 225, 242, 263
Sutkovoy, Nikolai Grigorevich (1872–1930), lawyer: 360
Suvorin, Alexei Sergeevich (1834–1912), journalist and publisher, from 1876 editor of the paper New Times: 117, 224, 543
Sverbeevs, the: 90, 276, 278
Sverchkov, Nikolai Egorovich (1817–98), artist: 272
Syutaev, Vasily Kirillovich (1819–92), peasant from the village of Shevelino in Tversk province, sectarian: xxii, 58, 134
Tabor, Emily, governess to the Tolstoy’s children: 534
Taine, Hippolyte Adolphe (1828–93), French philosopher and literary historian, Philosophie de l’art: 177
Taneev, Sergei Ivanovich (1856–1915), composer: xxv, xxvii, 142, 152–4, 156–7, 165, 185–6, 191, 198, 204–5, 214, 219, 222, 224–5, 232, 254, 256, 281, 333, 335, 339, 397, 422, 431, 447, 471, 473�
��4, 549, 551–2, 554, 556, 564, 567
“Taras”, see Fokanov, Taras Karpovich
Tatarinova, Sofia Vladimirovna (née Vsevolozhskaya) (1859–1923), Tversk landowner: 321
Tatishchevs, family of N.D. Tatishchev, governor of Yaroslavl: 69
Tchaikovsky, Modest Illich (1850–1916), librettist and translator, brother of P.I. Tchaikovsky: 263, 265, 554
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilich (1840–93), composer, Sleeping Beauty: 90, 193, 195, 203, 262–3, 265, 334
Terskaya, Ekaterina Fyodorovna: 421, 423
Tikhonov, Vladimir Alexandrovich (born 1859), physician: 300–1
Tikhonovna, Antonina: 460, 470
Timiryazev, Vasily Ivanovich (1849–1919), Minister of Trade and Industry from 1908: 513
Toliverova (Peshkova-Toliverova), Alexandra Nikolaevna (1842–1918), editor of the magazines The Toy and Woman’s Cause: 223, 527
Tolmacheva, Anna Leonidovna, friend of Andei Lvovich Tolstoy: 341
Tolstaya, Alexandra Andreevna (“Alexandrine”) (1817–1904), Tolstoy’s first cousin once removed: 19, 22, 99, 296, 444, 531–3, 542, 577
Tolstaya, Alexandra Lvovna (“Sasha”) (1884–1979), the Tolstoys’ youngest daughter: xxiv, xxviii, 62, 79, 83, 85–6, 92–3, 96–7, 100, 102, 116, 122, 124, 127, 133–4, 140, 143, 146–7, 151, 156–7, 159–63, 165, 167–9, 172–4, 179, 182, 185, 189–93, 195, 197–8, 200, 203, 206, 208–9, 211–2, 215, 217–8, 225–7, 230, 235, 242, 244, 248, 250, 252–3, 259–61, 264, 268–9, 274–7, 284, 286–9, 291, 295, 299, 302, 304, 316–7, 319, 321–4, 327–8, 333–4, 337, 339, 349, 351–3, 355–7, 360, 362–3, 368–9, 371, 373–8, 380, 385–8, 392–4, 398–401, 406–7, 409, 418–24, 426–9, 431–3, 435, 437–9, 443–7, 449–52, 455–7, 459, 461–4, 466–7, 470–3, 477, 479–82, 487, 489, 491, 493–4, 522, 526–7, 540, 559, 561, 563–4, 567, 569–71, 575
Tolstaya, Alexandra Vladimirovna (“Lina”) (née Glebova) (born 1880), wife of Mikhail Lvovich Tolstoy: 277, 284–5, 290, 297, 300, 322–3, 334, 376, 413, 424
Tolstaya, Anna Ilinichna (“Annochka”) (1888–1954), daughter of Ilya Lvovich Tolstoy: 168–9, 228, 259–61, 291, 323–4, 339, 450, 483, 493–4
Tolstaya, Dora (née Westerlund) (1878–1933), wife of Lev Lvovich Tolstoy: 152, 179, 189–91, 194, 196, 198, 203, 206, 208, 217–8, 229–31, 234, 238, 241, 258, 261, 267, 269, 279, 282–3, 285, 290, 323, 335, 337, 457, 464–5, 468, 487
Tolstaya, Ekaterina Vasilevna (“Katya”) (previously Artsimovich) (born 1876) second wife of Andrei Lvovich Tolstoy: 353, 380, 387, 432, 436, 441–4, 454, 463, 475
Tolstaya, Maria Andreevna (“Mashenka”) (born 1908), daughter of Andrei Lvovich Tolstoy: 425, 443
Tolstaya, Maria Konstantinova (née Rachinskaya) (1865–1900), first wife of Sergei Lvovich Tolstoy: 142, 180, 525
Tolstaya, Maria Lvovna; see Obolenskaya, M.L.
Tolstaya, Maria Mikhailovna (née Shishkin) (“the gipsy”) (1829–1919), wife of Sergei Nikolaevich Tolstoy: 531–2
Tolstaya, Maria Nikolaevna (“Mashenka”) (1830–1912), Tolstoy’s sister: 32, 49–50, 528
Tolstaya, Maria Nikolaevna, (née Zubova) (“Manya”, “Masha”) (1867–1939), second wife of Sergei Lvovich Tolstoy: 204, 208, 441, 458, 484, 489
Tolstaya, Olga Konstantinova (née Dieterichs) (1872–1951), first wife of Andrei Lvovich Tolstoy: 248, 261–3, 269, 273, 282, 285, 295, 298, 300, 302–3, 310, 322–4, 332, 334, 337, 342, 344, 355, 365–6, 378, 396–7, 438, 553, 559
Tolstaya, Sofia Andreevna (“Sonyushka”) (1900–57), daughter of Andrei Lvovich Tolstoy: 295, 302, 317, 324, 344, 354, 376, 445
Tolstaya, Sofia Nikolaevna (née Filosofova) (1867–1934), wife of Ilya Lvovich Tolstoy: 100, 163, 168, 170–2, 228–9, 255–6, 259, 277–8, 300, 308–9, 323, 332, 342, 403, 421–2, 424, 437, 445, 449, 456, 469, 540
Tolstaya, Tatyana Lvovna, see Sukhotina T.L.
Tolstaya, Tatyana Mikhailovna (born 1903), daughter of M.L. Tolstoy: 334, 376
Tolstaya, Vera Sergeevna (1865–1923) daughter of Sergei Nikolaevich Tolstoy: 155
Tolstoy, Alexei Lvovich (“Alyosha”) (1881–86), the Tolstoys’ son: 58, 60–1, 146, 185, 232, 290, 295, 522, 525, 536
Tolstoy, Andrei Ilich (“Andryusha”) (1894–1920), Tolstoy’s grandson: 189, 277, 296, 477
Tolstoy, Andrei Lvovich (“Andryusha”) (1877–1916), Tolstoy’s son: 48, 50, 52–7, 65–6, 71, 76, 78–9, 85–8, 91–3, 95–6, 100, 102, 114, 127, 129, 134–5, 140–1, 143, 146, 148, 151, 162, 167, 170–2, 178–80, 197–9, 208, 212–3, 216–7, 226, 228, 231, 238, 248, 256–7, 262–3, 269–70, 273, 275, 280, 282–3, 294–5, 302–3, 308, 317–8, 323, 329, 332, 334–7, 339, 341–4, 346, 350, 353, 378, 386, 404, 414, 420, 422–4, 426–9, 432–3, 436, 440–1, 443–4, 447, 449, 451–6, 458, 460–6, 469–70, 472–3, 475–6, 479, 487, 489, 493, 553, 567
Tolstoy, Grigory Sergeevich (“Grisha”) (1853–1928), son of Sergei Nikolaevich Tolstoy: 468
Tolstoy, Ilya Andreevich (“Ilyushok”) (1903–70), son of Andrei Lvovich Tolstoy: 354, 376, 396, 445, 491, 494, 559
Tolstoy, Ilya Ilich (1896–1970), son of Ilya Lvovich Tolstoy: 446, 477
Tolstoy, Ilya Lvovich (“Ilyusha”) (1866–1933), the Tolstoys’ son: xviii–xix, xxiii, 30–2, 36, 41, 46, 49, 51, 54–6, 58–9, 66, 68–71, 73, 75, 79–81, 83, 95, 97, 100–1, 113, 116, 120, 136, 144–5, 151, 161–3, 168–71, 178–80, 189, 200, 210, 213, 217, 226–8, 235, 241, 246, 248, 257, 259–60, 262, 272, 279–81, 283, 291, 295, 300, 307–9, 319–20, 322–3, 329, 332, 342, 350, 403, 413, 419, 421, 423–7, 429, 435, 437, 440, 442, 445–6, 448, 451, 455–6, 460–1, 464, 475, 478–9, 485, 487, 525, 537–40, 552, 565, 567–8, 571–3
Tolstoy, Ivan Lvovich (“Vanechka”) (1888–95), the Tolstoy’s son, ‘The Dachshund Taks Who Was Saved’: v, viii, xxv, 73, 75–6, 79, 80–1, 83, 85–9, 92–3, 96–8, 102, 112, 116, 119, 125, 128, 133, 140, 142–5, 147, 151, 153–4, 156–8, 161, 169–71, 175, 183, 185, 190, 204, 214, 219, 232, 234, 238, 246, 248, 255, 171, 282–3, 287, 290, 295, 297, 300, 337, 344, 429, 438, 444, 446, 476, 486, 522–8, 539, 542, 548, 565, 573, 578–9
Tolstoy, Ivan Mikhailovich (“Vanechka”) (born 1901), son of M.L. Tolstoy: 322–3, 376, 379, 403
Tolstoy, Lev Lvovich (“Lyolya”, “Lyova”) (pseusonym “L. Lvov”) (1869–1945), the Tolstoys’ son, The Construction of Hell, ‘Montecristo’ ‘On Fixed Prices’: xix, xxiii, xxvi, 37–8, 49, 52–5, 59–60, 65, 68–70, 75–6, 79–81, 83–5, 88, 91, 95, 97, 99, 102–3, 113, 129, 134, 140–4, 147–8, 151–2, 160, 169–70, 172, 177, 179, 185, 189–91, 194, 196, 199, 203, 208, 212, 217–8, 227, 229–30, 234, 250–1, 258, 261–2, 267, 269, 272, 280, 282–3, 285, 290–1, 308–9, 323–4, 335–7, 342, 361–8, 371–2, 375–6, 384, 386–7, 393–4, 419, 422, 426, 432, 435–6, 439, 442–3, 448, 452, 457, 458–9, 464–6, 468, 470, 474–6, 478–9, 481, 487, 489, 525, 533, 536, 541, 543, 545–8, 552, 565, 569
Tolstoy, Lev Lvovich (Levushka) (1898–1900), son of L.L. Tolstoy: 258, 267, 269, 282–4, 290, 466
Tolstoy, Lev Nikolaevich (1828–1910) (works mentioned in text); ABC 40, 127, 534; The Light Shines Even in Darkness 300; Anna Karenina vii, viii, xxi, 42, 45, 48, 335, 494, 514, 517, 520; Boyhood xii; ‘On the Census’ 392; Childhood xii, 212, 247, 388, 390, 397, 399, 418, 499, 501, 506; Children’s Circle of Reading 348; ‘The Children’s Law of God’ 347; ‘Christianity and Patriotism 386, 560; The Circle of Reading 339, 349, 416, 491, 567; ‘Collation and Translation of the Four Gospels’ 578; Confession 534; ‘The Construction of Hell’ 366, 386, 561; The Cossacks 3, 26, 327, 379; ‘The Death of Ivan Ilich’ 64, 148; The Decembrists 54, 535; ‘The Destruction and Reconstruction of Hell’ (‘Legend about the Devils’) 334, 556; ‘The Devil’ 553; ‘Dream’ see ‘Three Days in the Country’ Father Sergei 240–41, 247, 425, 552–3; ‘The First Distiller’ 376; ‘The Forged Coupon’ 444, 539, 568; The Fruits of Enlightenment 105, 108, 134–5, 276, 360; Hadji Murat (‘A Caucasian Tale’) 152, 221, 241, 323–6, 336, 484, 551, 553, 556; ‘Idyll’ 529; ‘History of a Mother’ 251; ‘The Infected Fa
mily’ xvii, 284; ‘An Investigation of Dogmatic Theology’ 56; ‘Khodynka’ 560; The Kingdom of God is within You (‘On the Church’) 75, 139, 349, 540, 542; The Kreutzer Sonata viii, xxiv, 50, 71, 73–5, 83, 86–90, 93–4, 98–9, 105, 108–9, 113, 115, 117, 119, 126, 157, 251, 334, 540–1, 563, 566; ‘Lipinyushka’ 544; The Living Corpse 300, 440, 442, 554, 567; ‘The Law of Violence and the Law of Love’ 565; ‘Master and Man’ 147, 149, 209, 247; ‘Notes for Officers’ 556; ‘Notes for Soldiers’ 283, 556; ‘On the Famine’ 133, 136, 546; On Life (‘On Life and Death)’ 64, 67–9, 71, 104–5, 537–9; ‘On Madness’ (‘On Suicide’) 356, 559, 560; ‘The Meaning of the Russian Revolution’ 347, 517; ‘On Shakespeare and on the Drama’ 300; ‘On the Social Movement in Russia’ 345, 557; ‘On Religious Tolerance’ 307, 556; ‘Polikushka’ 496, 575–6; The Power of Darkness 64, 67, 73, 142, 154, 334, 360, 377, 537–8; ‘The Raid’ 557; ‘On Religion’ 299–302; ‘Reminiscences’ 444; Resurrection 142, 241, 243, 246–7, 249–52, 256, 261, 263–5, 268–70, 334, 364, 366, 391–2, 394, 437, 553, 567; Sevastopol Tales xii; ‘There Are No Guilty People in the World’ 560; ‘Thou Shalt Not Kill’ 348, 565; Thoughts of the Wise Men for Every Day 300; ‘Three Days in the Country’ 560; ‘Tikhon and Malanya’ 529; ‘To the Clergy’ 325, 556; ‘To the Tsar and his Assistants’ 288, 565; ‘To the Working People’ (‘On the Ownership of the Land’) 320–1, 556, 565; ‘Walk in the Light While There Is Light’ 64, 78, 537; War and Peace vii, viii, xiii, xviii xx, 9, 24, 34, 36–7, 87, 108, 179, 226, 252, 454, 517, 531–3, 570, 576; ‘What I Believe’ 57, 59, 536, 549; ‘What People Live for’ 475, 487, 572; What is Art? (On Art) 153, 173, 175–6, 178, 183–4, 190, 192, 194, 208–9, 213, 216–7, 219–20, 241, 392, 548–9, 552; ‘What Then Must We Do?’ (‘On Money’) 64, 105, 399, 561; ‘What Is the Solution?’ 366, 415; ‘Who Is Right?’ 288; ‘Who Are the Murderers? Pavel Kudryash’ 558; ‘Why Are People being Stupefied?’ 543; Youth xii, 428
Tolstoy, Mikhail Ilich (1893–1919), son of Ilya Lvovich Tolstoy: 163, 223, 228, 235, 261, 468, 571