Moore, Thomas, mentioned, 33, 187 Moral foundations of life, 129 Moral philosophy, construction of a, 145 Moral teachings of the prophets of mankind, 140 Morality, current rules of, 167 Moravian language, 4, 5 Morbid literature, 168 Mordóvtseff, novelist, 304 Moscow, built up by aid of Mongol Khans, 16 conflagration of, in 1812, 11 first capital of Russia, 14 _n._ serfdom introduced into, 16 becomes a centre for Church and State, 16 the heir to Constantinople, 16 Poles capture, 18 first printing office established in, 19 revision of the Holy Books undertaken at, 19 the slums of, 135 Western habits of life introduced into, 191 Moscow Church, criticism of dignitaries of, 17 obtains a formidable power in Russia, 19 “Moscow Fifty,” trial of, 135, 136 Moscow Institute of the Friends founded by Nóvikoff, 30 Moscow monarchy, consolidating the, 16 Moscow princes, unlimited authority of the, 16 Moscow stage, the, 200-211 Moscow Theological Academy, 23 Moscow tsars, authority of the, 268 Murillo, Bartolomé, mentioned, 90 “Muse of Vengeance and of Sadness, A,” 174, 175 Muslin education, 294 “Muslin Girls,” 294 Mystery plays, 191 Nadézhdin, poet, 287 Nádson, poet, 304 Napoleon I. in Russia, 126 horrors of the retreat of, from Moscow, 122 Napoleon III., _coup d’état_ of, 96 Napoleonic wars, effect of the, on Russian soldiers, 34 Naryézhnyi, historical novelist, 64 Nation’s life, the accidental and temporary in the historical development of, 297 _Natural History of Selbourne_ (White), 177 Naturalism and realism in France, 222 Naturalism and realism, sound, 288 Nature, forces of, personified in heroes, 9 Humboldt’s poetical conception of, 25 knowledge of “unholy,” 17; severely condemned by the Church, 17 mythological representations of forces of, 10 return to, 119 the highest poetry of, 299 the law of, 144 Naúmoff, folk-novelist, 248 Nefédoff, folk-novelist, 249 Nekrásoff, Nicholas, poet, sketch of his life and works, 170-177; editor of _The Contemporary_, 112; birth and ancestry of, 170; his black misery, 171; makes acquaintance with the lowest classes of St. Petersburg, 171; death of, 171; his love of the peasant masses, 172; his inner force, 174; his pessimism, 174; his struggle against serfdom, 174; his best poem, 175; his poems to the exiles in Siberia and the Russian women, 175; mentioned, 224, 226, 235, 298 Neptune, the Sea-God, 9 _Nestor’s Annals_, 14 Netcháeff groups, the trial of, 135 “Neutral tint” types of real life, 233 Newspaper publishing, difficulties of, in Russia, 263, 264 Newton, Sir Isaac, mentioned, 25 Nicholas I., becomes emperor, 35; hangs some and exiles others of the Decembrists, 35 Nicholas the Villager, 8 Nihilism and Terrorism compared, 102