Norsemen in Russia, 10 _Odyssey_, the, Russian translation of, 52 Ostrovsky, 193 f. Palæologa, Sophia, 21 Paris revolution of 1848, the, 159 Parnassian poetry, the epoch of, 226 f. Pater, Walter, 247, 248 Paul, Emperor, 33 Peter the Great, 21, 24 f., 71, 85, 97 ---- ---- of Poetry, the, 95 Petrashevsky and his followers, 159, 160 Pisarev, 180, 181, 227 Pisemsky, 191, 193 Poe, E. A., 86 Poland, 21, 24 Poland, the rising in, 180 Poles occupy Moscow, 24 Polevoy, 142 Polezhaev, 101 Polonsky, 232, 233 f. Polotsky, Simeon, 22 f. Preobrazhenskoe and its theatre, 23 Pre-Raphaelites, the, 226 Printing press, the first, 21 Propagandists of Western Ideas the, 148 f. Prutkov, Kuzma. _See_ Tolstoy, Count Alexis. Pugachev and the Cossack rising, 80 Pushkin vi, 18, 34, 41, 43, 50, 54 f., 109, 110, 123, 126, 132, 135, 138, 143, 162, 167, 220 Radishchev, 27 f. Rakhmaninov, 81 Rimsky-Korsakov, 81 Rodionovna, Anna, 84, 85 Rome, Gogol settles in, 133 Rousseau, 27 Russia and political liberty, 148 ----, Norsemen in, 10, 11 ----, Tartar invasion of, 19, 24 ----, the revolutionary movement of 1905, 243, 248, 249 Russian literature, beginnings of, 9 f. ---- ----, dawn of, 30 f. ---- ----, second renascence of, 159 ---- ----, the age of prose, 126 f. ---- ----, the second age of poetry, 226 f. ---- newspaper, the first, 25 ---- Nihilism. _See_ Nihilism. ---- trade centres, 10 Russia's national poet, 95 Russo-Japanese War, the, 243 Ryleev, 44 Sainte-Beuve, 146 St. Petersburg, 10 ---- Jesuits, the, 148 ----, the great floods of 1834, 85 Saltykov, Michael, vi, 184 f., 190 f. Sand, George, 162 Schiller's _Maid of Orleans_, Russian translation of, 52 Schumann of Russian literature, the, 175 Seekers after God, 198 Serfs, emancipation of the, 160, 227 Shakespeare, Pushkin on, 65, 66 Shchedrin. _See_ Saltykov. Siberia, Dostoyevsky at, 160, 213, 225 ----, Radishchev at, 28 Slav race, the, 10 f. Slavonic liturgy, introduction of, 12 Slavophiles, the, 143, 148, 152, 154, 159, 180, 228 Sluchevsky, 238 Socialism and Atheism, 150 f. Society of Welfare, the, 43 Sologub, 242 Soloviev, Vladimir, 11, 93, 181 f. Stebnitsky. _See_ Leskov. Stendhal, 204 Stevenson, R. L., 127, 128, 129, 214 Strakhov, 180 Suffragettes, 163, 164 Sully-Prudhomme, 226 Suvorov, 30 Sviatoslav, 15, 16 Taine, 162 Tartar invasion of Russia, the, 19; the Tartar yoke thrown off, 24 Tatishchev, 26 Tchaikovsky, 80, 236 Tennyson, Lord, 165, 166, 226 Thackeray, 172 Tolstoy, Count Alexis, 234 f. ----, Count Leo, 134, 161, 164, 170, 196 f., 211, 246