Púshkin, Alexander, Russian poet, sketch of his life and works, 39-50; his lyrics familiar in England, 39; neglected in Russia, 39; appreciated in France and Germany, 39; his beauty of form, 40; his individuality and vital intensity, 40; his birth and ancestry, 41; his perfect mastership of the Russian language, 41; his knowledge of folklore, 41; describes his shallow life in _Evghéniy Onyéghin_, 41; exiled to Kishmyóff, 42; joins the gypsies, 42; journeys to the Crimea and the Caucasus, 42; ordered to return to Central Russia, 42; returns to St. Petersburg and becomes chamberlain to Nicholas I., 42; marries, 42; fights a duel and is killed, 42; his early productions, 42, 43; his simplicity in verse, 43; frees literature from enslavement, 44; his lyric love poems, 45; called the Russian Byron, 45; his Epicureanism, 46; his stupendous powers of poetical creation, 46; his dramas, 47; his comprehension of human affairs, 47; his most popular work, 47; references to, 4, 6, 13, 24, 27, 31, 36, 51, 53, 54, 58, 61, 63, 67, 68, 69, 79, 84, 85, 89, 103, 112, 172, 173, 176, 195, 265, 287, 288, 289, 293, 308, 319 Pyéshkoff, A. (Maxim Górkiy), 250. See Górkiy, Maxim. Pýpin, A. N., ethnographical writer, 231 Racine, Jean Baptiste, mentioned, 61 Radicals, conceptions of advanced Russian, 114 Radíscheff, political writer, 26; receives his education in the Corps of Pages, 30; his _Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow_, 30; transported to Siberia, 30; commits suicide, 30 Ralston, English translator of Russian _sagas_, 11 Rambaud, French historian, 11 Rázin, Stepán, terrific uprising of, 18 Reaction, real geniuses of, 284; triumphant, 285 Realism, how put to service of higher aims, 86 in art, 85 in France, 86 in the Russian novel, 85 of Balzac, 86 of Russian literature, 46, 222 Realism and romanticism, mixture of, 168 Realism, Shakespearian, 146 Realist, the thoughtful, 303, 305 Realistic school introduced into Russia by Púshkin, 58 Religious deception, 140 Religious propagandists, 248 Renaissance, movement of, did not reach Russia, 17 Republican federalism of old Russia, return to, 35 Rich classes, lust of, for wealth and luxury, 144 Rigourism condemned, 305 Romantic school, influence of the, 72 French novelists of the, 64 Romantic sentimentalism, 238 Romanticism, German, 48 unbridled, 86 Romanticism and pseudo-classicalism contend for possession of the Russian stage, 195; triumph of romanticism, 195 Rousseau, Jean Jacques, mentioned, 119, 121, 130, 148 Royal power, uninterrupted transmission of, 269 Rúrik, house of, 14