Bogdanóvitch, poet, 27, 28 Books, censorship on, in Russia, 264 Borodín, music of, 14 Brandes, George, his study of Turguéneff, 91, 94 Brontë, Charlotte, mentioned, 179 Browning, Robert, mentioned, 40, 186 Buckle, Henry Thomas, mentioned, 265 Bulgaria falls under the rule of the Osmanlis, 15 Bulgarian language, 4 Bureaucratic centralisation, 267 Burial songs of peasant women, 7 Byeláeff, historian, 269 Byelínskiy, the greatest critic of histime, 163, 288; ancestry and sketch of his writings, 288-290; mentioned, 178, 224, 267, 269, 272, 276, 287 _n._, 288, 289, 293, 296, 298 Bylíny, early Russian explorers of, 9 epic songs of, 8 Byron, Lord George Gordon, mentioned, 33, 40, 42, 44, 45, 46, 47, 51, 61, 63, 186, 187, 288 Byronism, mantle of, 48 Púshkin’s, 45 Byronists, Don Juanesque features of the, 162 Byzantine Church, teachings of, 17 Byzantine gnosticism, 5 Byzantine habits of Moscow, 68 Byzantine historians, 15 Byzantine ideals of the Russian Church, 16 Capitalism, powers of, 268 Cat-o’-nine-tails, punishment of the, 164 Catherine II., literature in the early part of her reign, 26; full of progressive ideas, 26; her intercourse with French philosophers, 26; composes her remarkable _Instruction_ to the deputies, 26; writes several comedies, 26; edits a monthly review, 26; writes two satirical comediesand a comic opera, 194 Caucasians, the most beautiful people of Europe, 52 Caucasus “society,” descriptions of, 59 Caucasus, the, one of the most beautiful regions on earth, 52 Censorship of literature under Nicholas I., 36 Censorship, rigorous Russian, 94, 263 Central Russia, invaded by Cossacks, 18 spoken language of, 6 Cervantes, Miguel de, good-natured laughter of, 4 Chansonnettes, playful, 4 Charles XII., of Sweden, ruler of Little Russia, defeated at Poltáva, 36 Christ, the teachings of, 140 Christian brotherhoods, early, 17 Christian ethics, main points of the, 142-145 Christian humility, 143 mask of, 83 Christian literature in Russia, 17 Christian mysticism, 28 Christian nationality of Russian Church, 16 Christian teaching, interpretation of, 138 moral aspects of, 140 Christianity, development of, 17 rationalistic interpretation of, 139; dogmatic elements of, 140 reformed, antagonism to, 17 spread of, in Russia, 29 Christmas Eve, Russian village life on, 69 Church and State, attitude of negation towards, 145 Church Christianity, 140 _n._ Church, lower clergy of the, impositions on, 19 Church, Russian, throws off the Mongol yoke, 16 Churches, hatred of, towards each other, 138 Cicero, powerful oratory of, 24 Circassians, struggle of, against the Russians, 56, 57 Circles, the, important part played by the, in the intellectual development of Russia, 266 Citizen, the duties of a, 174