Russian literatureKropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz
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Russian literature
Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz
Russian literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Tolstóy, Lyoff Nicolaievich, sketch of his life and works, 110-148;
his contributions to _The Contemporary_, 110;
birth and ancestry of, 111;
loses his father and mother when young, 111;
educated by relatives, 111;
enters military service in the Caucasus, 112;
his life during and after the Crimean War, 112-115;
takes part in the siege of Silistria and the battle of Balakláva,
112;
besieged in Sebastopol, 112;
goes to St. Petersburg, 113;
becomes acquainted with Turguéneff, 113;
co-edits _The Bell_, 113;
in search of an ideal, 115-118;
his artistic power, 117;
his descriptive talent, 117;
his small stories, 118-121;
his educational work, 120-121;
his marriage, 121;
family traditions, 122;
sketch of his _War and Peace_, 125;
of his Anna Karénina, 126, 127;
his honest artistic genius, 128;
his religious crisis, 129-138;
his views on property and labor, 130;
his dislike of the Russian Government, 131;
his thoughts on suicide, 134;
his love of the peasant masses, 134;
his idea of earning his own living, 135;
reforms his life, 137;
his plain food, 137;
philosophical reasons for his conduct, 137;
his interpretation of the Christian teaching, 138-142;
his influence, 148;
references to, 4, 6, 35, 58, 151, 152, 169, 201, 202, 223, 228, 229,
250, 278, 281, 296, 297, 298, 300, 308, 319
Tolstóy, Nicholas, dies of consumption, 120
Tolstóyism, 305
Tramps and thieves, idyll of, 303
Tramps and outcasts of Russian large cities, 242
Tramps, Górkiy’s species of, 255
Tramps of Southern Russia, 252
Transbaikalian folk-lore, 10
Tsar, absolute power of the, 267
Tsar’s authority, divine origin of, 18
Turanian language, 5
Turguéneff, Nicholas, political writer, 277;
member of the Decembrists, 277
Turguéneff, Ivan Sergeyevich, last message of, to Russian writers, 3;
sketch of his life and works, 89-109;
the greatest novel writer of his century, 89;
his high sense of the beautiful, 89;
his novels a succession of scenes, 91;
the qualities of a pessimist and lover of mankind combined in him,
93;
extract from his _Correspondence_, 95, 96;
his pessimism, 96;
threatened with being sent to Siberia, 96;
a sketch of his _Rúdin_, 97, 98;
extracts from, 98, 99;
his most artistic work, _A Nobleman’s Retreat_, 100;
his life-picture of a Russian girl, 100;
extracts from his _Fathers and Sons_, and Hamlet and Don Quixote,
105, 106;
his attitude towards Bazároff, 106, 107;
wreck of his hopes in reform movement, 107;
his death in Paris, 109;
references to, 4, 6, 31, 39, 46, 50, 52, 58, 84, 85, 110, 118, 151,
152, 157, 169, 171, 175, 177, 179, 180, 201, 202, 212, 215, 223,
225, 226, 228, 239, 247, 252, 253, 258, 265, 267, 269, 272, 274,
275, 281, 291, 293, 295, 300, 302, 303, 304, 308, 314, 315
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