The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy (95 page)

Velichkina, Vera Mikhailovna (married name Bonch-Bruevich) (1868–1918), doctor, writer, revolutionary: 136, 546

Vereshchagin, writer: 208

Verhaeren, Emile (1855–1919), Belgian symbolist poet: 190

Verigin, Pyotr Vasilevich (1862–1924), leader of the Dukhobors from 1866: 224

Verne, Jules (1828–1905), French writer,
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; In Search of the Castaways
: 143, 547

Vertinsky, Alexander Nikolaevich (1889–1957), actor: 572

Veselkin: 229

Vinogradov, Ivan Mikhailovich, prison inspector: 553

Vlasov, Prokofy, Yasnaya Polyana peasant: 419, 564

Volkhonsky, Prince: 241

Volkhonskys, the: 261

Volkhovskaya (Volkhonskaya) (née Zvegintseva), Princess, daughter of A.E. Zvegintseva: 241–2

Volkonsky, Nikolai Sergeevich (1715–84), Tolstoy's grandfather: 59, 500, 536

Volkov, Dmitry Nikitich, member of the educational Yasnaya Polyana Society in Memory of L.N. Tolstoy: 486, 489, 490, 495

Volkov, Efim, Efimovich, artist: 100

Volkov, Konstantin Vasilevich (1871–1938),
zemstvo
doctor in the Yalta district: 299, 307, 311–3, 320

Volkov, Nikolai Nikolaevich (1839–1909), landowner in the Chern district: 29

Volkovs, the: 321

Vorontsov-Dashkov, Illarion Ivanovich (1837–1916), Minister of the Imperial Court and its Principalities: 134, 452

Vsevolozhsky, Ivan Alexandrovich (1835–1909), Director of the Imperial Theatres: 105–6

Vysokomirnyi, E.D., secretary of the Yasnaya Polyana Society in Memory of L.N. Tolstoy: 489, 573–4

 

Wagner, Richard (1833–83), German Composer: 210, 220, 224

Ward, Mrs Humphry (1851–1920), English novelist,
Marcella
: 141, 547

Weber, Carl Maria von (1786–1826), German composer: 50, 53, 70, 440, 459, 483

Welsh, Anna, English music teacher to Sasha and Sofia Tolstoy: 163, 198, 204, 248, 269

Westerlund, Dora, see Tolstaya, Dora

Westerlund, Ernest Teodor (1839–1924), father of Dora Tolstaya: 236–8, 283

Westerlunds, the: 231

Williams, Howard,
The Ethics of Diet
: 543

Wulfs, the: 184–5

 

Yakubovsky, V.,
Positive Peasant Types in the Early Works of L.N. Tolstoy, and the Image of Karataev
: 463

Yartsev, Alexander Viktorovich (1850–
c
.1919): 171

Yazykova: 387

Yunge, Alexander Eduardovich

Yunge, Ekaterina Fyodorovna (née Tolstaya) (1843–1913), artist, Tolstoy's first cousin once removed: 278

Yushkova, Pelageya Illichna (née Tolstaya) (1801–75), Tolstoy's aunt: 513

 

Zabelin, Ivan Egorovich (1820–1908), historian and archeologist: 340

Zakharin, Grigory Antonovich (1829–96), physician, professor at Moscow University: 69–70, 140

Zavadovskaya, Sofia Petrovna, see Kozlovskaya, S.P.

Zetlin, Natan Sergeevich, publisher: 326

Zhidkov, Alexei, Yasnaya Polyana peasant: 381

Zhilyaev, Nikolai Sergeevich (born 1881), musical theoretician. Pupil of S.I. Taneev: 233, 278

Zhilyaeva, Varvara Pavlovna (née Arnautova) (1851–1924), landowner in Kursk, mother of N.S. Zhilyaev: 219

Zhirkevich, Alexander Vladimirovich (1857–1927), military lawyer, poet and novelist: 527

Ziloti, Alexander Ilich (1863–1945), pianist, conductor and musical figure: 333

Zinger, Alexander Vasilevich (1870–1934), physicist, professor at Moscow University: 421

Zinoviev, Nikolai Alexeevich (1839–1917), governor of Tula from 1887 to 1893, later member of the state
Duma
: 132, 172, 540

Zinovieva, Maria Nikolaevna, daughter of N.A. Zinoviev: 90

Zinovievs, the: 76, 81, 540

Zola, Émile (1840–1902), French writer.
Fécondité
: 262, 455

Zolotaryov, Vasily Petrovich (born 1866), fellow thinker of Tolstoy's: 132

Zonov, Alexei Sergeevich (1870–1919), collaborator on the Intermediary: 263

Zubova, Maria Nikolaevna, see Tolstaya, M.N.

Zvegintseva, Anna Yevgenevna, Tula landowner: 241, 459

CATHY PORTER
has published biographies of the Russian women revolutionaries Alexandra Kollontai and Larissa Reisner, as well as books about women terrorists of the 1860s, Russia's 1905 revolution, and the Battle of Moscow. She has translated more than thirty books and works for the stage, including plays by Gorky and the Czech Karel
apek. She lives in Oxford.

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Cover design by Adam Johnson

Cover painting: Leo Tolstoy with his wife in Yasnaya Polyana by llya Efimovich Repin, 1907, Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, Moscow/The Bridgeman Art Library

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