Alexander I., educated by La Harpe, 34; attempts to give Russia a constitution, 34; grants one to Poland and Finland, 34; influence of German mystics on, 34; surrenders to the reactionists, 34; influence of Madame Krüdener on, 34 Alexéi the priest’s son, 8 American features of a new life, 302 American squatters, 119, 227 Anarchism, no-government principles of, 146 modern, founded by Mikhail Bakúnin, 276 Annals, rich Russian collection of, 14 Antonovitch, Grand Duke Ivan, imprisoned in fortress of Schüsselberg, 29 Antique Greek world, study of the, 306 Anti-Semitic comedy, reception of, in St. Petersburg, 264 Apocryphal gospels, wide circulation of, in Russia, 17 Archæological details, abuse of, 306 Arakchéeff, General, rules Russia during last ten years of reign of Alexander I., 34 Arctic exploration, Lomonósoff’s memoir on, 25 Aristocratic girl, interesting types of the, 302 Armenian language, 4 Arsenal of punishments, 264 Arsénieff, K., critic, 172, 295 K. K., writer of satires, 282 Art and its impulses, 160 Art, counterfeits of, 298 Art criticism, canons in, 293 foundations of new, 287 in Russia, 287 “Art for Art’s sake,” 295, 297, 298 poets of, 183-185 Art in the service of mankind, 296 Art, latest works of, 145-148 the main principles of, 289 utilitarian views upon, 295 Artels (coöperative organisations), 230 Asceticism preached in Russia, 17 Audubon, John James, mentioned, 177 Auerbach, Berthold, mentioned, 91 Autocracy, evils of, 63 Avvakúm, Nonconformist priest, memoirs of, 19-21; quotation from, 20; exiled to Siberia, 20; taken to the Amúr, 20; burned at the stake, 20 Bakúnin, Mikhail, Russian revolutionist, 276 Balakláva disaster, Tolstóy’s poems on, 113 Balkan peninsula, invasion of, by Turks, 15 Balzac, Honoré de, mentioned, 58, 86, 91 Barantsévitch, novelist, 304 Baratýnskiy, romantic Russian poet, 62 Barbier, Henri Auguste, mentioned, 40, 173, 186 Bards of Northern and Little Russia, 7 Bards, special, 8 Baskáks, visits of, to Russia, 16 Bayán, Russian bard, 13 Beautiful, realistic definition of the, 290 the worship of the, 306 Beauty and Truth, idealistic point of view of, 289 Belles-lettres, Academy of, founded by Catherine II., 26 Béranger, Pierre Jean de, mentioned, 3, 186 chansonnettes of, 4 Bestúzheff, Alexander, prose writer, 63 Bible, Russian translation of, 5 the first Russian, 19 why it has not yet been superseded, 298 Biblical Old Slavonian, little use of, 22 Bibliographical notes, 318-320 Bismarck, Otto Eduard Leopold, mentioned, 124 “Black people” and “white people,” 14 Black Sea, Russia takes firm hold of, 27 Blood-vengeance of Scandinavian heroes, 10 Boborýkin, novelist, sketch of, 307 Bodenstedt, friend and German translator of Lérmontoff’s poems, 52, 53, 56