Schopenhauer, Arthur, mentioned, 54, 134, 135, 255 Scott, Sir Walter, mentioned, 61, 195 Sebastopol, Tolstóy’s sketches of siege of, 112, 113 Secret societies begin to be formed in Russia, 34 Self-love, rational, 142 Serbian language, 4 Serfdom, abolition of, 224 atrocities of, 94 energetic protest against, 288 evils of, 222 growth of, 269 horrors of, 28, 224, 230 introduced into Moscow, 16 introduction of, into Russia, 18 literary movement against, 84 Serfs, general feeling in favour of, 226 Serfs of the Church, 19 Serfs sold like slaves, 79 Servia falls under the rule of the Osmanlis, 15 Shahovskóy, Prince, a writer for the Russian stage, 195 Shakespeare, William, references to, 4, 47, 51, 52, 126, 195, 201 _n._, 215, 288 Shakespearian fatalism, 238 Shapír, Olga, novelist, 304 Shelley, Percy Bysshe, references to, 4, 51, 53, 172, 186 Shenshin, A. (_nom-de-plume_ A. Fet), Russian poet, 185 Shevchénko, poet, 63 Shevtchénko, Little-Russian poet, 224 Short story, the, and its ways of dealing with human life, 316 Siberia, spoken language of, 6 Siberian forests, life in the depths of, 222 Skabitchévskiy, critic and historian, 172, 295 Slavery, abolition of modern, 146 Slavonian family of languages, 4 Slavonian mythology, old, 9 Slavonic archaisms, 25 Slavonic mythology, early, 10 Slavophiles, 266-270; fanatics of absolute rule, 268, 272 Slum-life, pictures of, 168 Smirnóff, Madame O. A. (_née_ Rossett), pietist, Gogol falls under her influence, 83 Smirnóva, Sophie, novelist, 304 Smith, Adam, mentioned, 277 Smolénsk, captured by Poles, 18 Social evils, the main cause of, 144 Social ideas, unsettled condition of, 305 Socialism, economic principles of, 146 Socialist revival in France, 224 Socialistic movement in Russia, 163 Society, agitated Russian, 281 Society and Court scandals, 265 “Society” divorce cases in Russia, 127 Society, looseness of habits in Russian, 28 Society of Friends, assist Freemasons in spreading moral education, 28 Society of Friends of Russian literature, 296 Society, Russian educated, 232 Society, the rebel against, 254 Solidarity, germs of a realistic philosophy of, 104 Solovióff, N., playwright, 217 Solovióff, V., philosopher, 270 Song-collectors, 231 _Song of the Nibelungs_, 11 _Song of Roland_, 11 Songs, burial, 7; antique, 7 South Russian annals, 14 South Slavonian language, high degree of perfection of, 5; remarkable beauty of, 5 South Slavonians, folk-songs of, 4 mixture of, with Turkish and Polish blood in Little Russia, 68 Southeastern Steppes, Tartar encampments in the, 16 Southern Russia, spoken language of, 6 Spencer, Herbert, mentioned, 265 deep sensation of, in Russia, 294 Stanukóvitch, novelist, 304 Stásoff, V. V., his theory of epic songs of Slavonic mythology, 9