Asya 4, 5, 24, 28, 29, 119, 120 (Acia 3, 27; Annouchka 30; Assja; Assya) Author and critic 91 [Pisatel´ i kritik] Autumn 121, 122 [Osen´] * Avtobiografiya An axiom 88 [Zhiteĭskoye pravilo] The azure realm 4 [Lazurnoye tzarstvo] A baby’s cry 91 [U-a ... U-a ...] The bachelor 23, 31 [Kholostyak] The bailiff 102 [Burmistr] Ballada 123 The banquet of the deity 231 [Pir u verkhovnovo sushchestva] The banquet of the supreme being 91 [Pir u verkhovnovo sushchestva] The bear 102 [Biryuk] Beejina Lough 95 [Bezhin lug] The beggar 88–91, 231 [Nishchiĭ] Beneficence and gratitude 124 [Pir u verkhovnovo sushchestva] Bez gnezda (A bird without a nest 91) Bezdenezh´ye (Broke 23) Bezhin lug (Beejina Lough 95; Bezhin meadow 24, 32, 65, 102, 245, 246; Byezhin meadow 4, 250; Byezhin prairie 3, 251) Bezhin meadow 24, 32, 65, 102, 245, 246 [Bezhin lug] * Bezlunnaya noch´ A bird without a nest 91 [Bez gnezda] Biryuk 3, 65, 86, 247–249 (The bear 102; Foma the bireouk 95; Foma, the wolf 12, 268; The wolf 4) The blackbird 91 [Drozd] Bliznetzy (The twins 91) The blockhead 88, 89, 200, 231 [Durak] The Borzoi Turgenev 11 The bourmister 95 [Burmistr] The Brahmin 91 [Bramin] Bramin (The Brahmin 91) Bretior (The bully 4, 5, 126; The duellist 3; The ruffian 9) The brigadier 3–5, 7, 9, 125 [Brigadir] Broke 23 [Bezdenezh´ye] Brozhu nad ozerom ... tumanny (I wander round the lake 157) The bully 4, 5, 126 [Bretior] Burmistr (The agent 3, 4; The bailiff 102; The bourmister 95; The children of the czar 241; The steward 65) Byezhin meadow 4, 250 [Bezhin lug] Byezhin prairie 3, 251 [Bezhin lug] * Byloye schast´ye Cabbage-soup 88–91, 201, 202, 231 [Shchi] Carelessness 23 [Neostorozhnost´] Charity 90 [Milostynya] Chasy (The watch 3–5, 304, 305) * Chelovek, kakikh mnogo Chelovek v seykh ochkakh (Monsieur François 180; The man in the grey spectacles 18) Cherepa (The skulls 88–91, 231) Chernorabochiĭ i beloruchka (The laborer and the man with the white hand 88; The toiler and the lazy man 4; The worker and the man with the white hands 90; The working man and the man with the white hands 89; The workman and the man with white hands 91, 231) Chertopkhanov and Nedopyuskin 65, 102 [Chertopkhanov i Nedopyuskin] Chertopkhanov i Nedopyuskin (Chertopkhanov and Nedopyuskin 65, 102; Native oddities 95; Tchertop-Hanov and Nedopyuskin 3; Tchertopkhanoff and Nedopiuskm 4) The children of the czar 241 [Burmistr] Christ 88–91, 231 [Khristos] Chto ya budu dumat? (What shall I think? 88–91) * Chto za pogoda zlaya Ch´ya vina? (Whose fault? 91) Clara Militch 3, 4, 5, 24, 127 [Klara Milich] A contented man 88–91 [Dovol´nyĭ chelovek] A conversation 90, 91, 128, 231 [Razgovor]