St Petersburg/Petrograd, 3–5, 6, 8–9, 22, 26, 29, 37, 45, 47, 68, 72n, 111–12, 117, 124, 127, 132, 138, 146, 147, 148, 165, 167, 173, 175, 196, 197, 199, 233, 242, 250, 273, 275, 277, 297, 301, 302, 345, 367, 368, 370, 381, 383, 400; Alexander Nevsky Monastery, 528; Alexander Nevsky Temple-Monument, 9; Anichkov Palace, 500–1; armed demonstration (June 1917), 396–7, 404; Astoria Hotel, 683; ‘Bloody Sunday’ (January 1905), 173–80, 185, 186, 192, 199, 300, 310, 514; capital moved to Moscow from, 550–1, 603; cholera epidemics, 112; Constituent Assembly elections, 508; Duma election, 457, 458; February Revolution (1917), 307–23, 339, 340, 348–9, 396; Finland Station, 384–7, 483; food shortages, 300, 307–8; general strikes, 189, 232; Gostiny Dvor, 311, 530; Griboyedov Canal, 313; Hotel France, 493; industrial crisis (1917–18), 610, 624, 626; July Days, 421–33, 435, 436; Kazan Cathedral, 3, 9, 167, 178, 310, 319; Kshesinskaya Mansion, 387, 425, 427, 433; Kresty jail, 204, 219, 314, 324; Liteiny Bridge, 308, 309, 310; Liteiny Prospekt, 37, 514; Marinskaya Hospital, 536n; Marinsky Palace, 216, 217, 328, 354, 381, 429, 485; Marinsky Theatre, 4–5, 12, 24, 493, 686; martial law in, 513; Mikhailovsky Theatre, 290; mutiny of garrison (1917), 313–16, 330, 340, 396; name changed to Petrograd (1914), 251; Narodny Dom, 493; Narva Gates, 176, 178n; Nevsky Prospekt, 3, 4, 6, 37, 177, 180, 192, 308, 309, 310, 312, 313, 316, 319, 368–9, 382, 404, 424, 428, 493, 530, 605, 606, 673, 759, 763; Nikolaevsky Station, 327, 340, 482, 483, 540, 673; October insurrection, 482–97; peasants in, 108, 111; Police HQ, 317; political strikes (1917), 300–2, 309–10; post-Revolution, 603–4, 605, 609, 610; Preobrazhensky Cemetery, 514; renamed Leningrad (1924), 805; St Isaac’s Cathedral, 9, 144, 441, 673; statue of Alexander III, 15, 400, 482; The Storming of the Winter Palace staged in (1920), 739; Temple of Christ’s Resurrection, 9; Tercentenary Cathedral, 9; Theological Academy, 174; Troitsky Bridge, 177, 309; University, 125, 144, 165, 166, 222, 314; Vasilevsky Island, 759; Vladimir Prospekt, 312; workers’ strikes (1921), 759–60, 761; Yudenich’s offensive against, 670–5, 681, 761; Znamenskaya Square, 15, 187, 309, 311, 312, 313, 400. See also Peter and Paul Fortress; Smolny Institute; Tauride Palace; Vyborg district; Winter Palace
Samara, 106, 206, 366, 459, 566, 575–9, 581–5, 612, 644, 653, 753, 757, 776, 795
Samarin, Iurii, 36, 277
Samosudy (mob trials), 400–1, 402, 525, 533, 534
Samsonov, General Alexander, 255, 256, 261
Sapozhkov, A. P., 756
Saratov, 44, 106, 131, 157, 223, 225, 365, 459, 463, 600, 605, 611, 621, 662, 664, 741, 752–5
Savinkov, Boris, 170n, 443–4, 446, 449, 450, 451, 559; The Pale Horse, 209; Yaroslavl’ uprising of, 642 and n
Sazonov, S. D., 249, 251, 275, 278, 652n
Schlieffen Plan, 253–4, 256
Schreider, Grigorii, 487, 488, 509
Sechenov, Ivan, The Reflexes of the Brain, 733
Sejm (Finnish parliament), 375, 376
Semashko, A. I., 423
Semenov, Grigorii, 651, 659
Semenov, Sergei, xiii, 53, 94, 232–9, 241, 361–3, 447, 463, 609, 617, 753, 773, 789, 790, 791; on Andreevskoe, 104, 107, 109, 751–2; as Duma deputy, 217; in exile, 234, 786; Maliutin’s feud with, 232–3, 234, 235–6, 237, 238, 362, 363, 786, 787–8; murder of (1922), 787–8; reforms in Andreevskoe of, 183, 184, 233–6, 237–9, 362–3, 786–8, 789; and Tolstoy, 160, 183, 233, 234; Volokolamsk co-operative movement pioneered by, 612, 786
Semenov, Tatiana, 362
Semipalatinsk, 654, 658
Semirechie, 710
Serafimovich, Alexander: The Iron Flood, 563n
Serbia, 247, 250–1, 258
Serfdom, 46–7, 48; legacies of, 47, 53–4, 57, 96, 97
Serge, Viktor, 607, 609, 674, 821
Serov, Ivan, 756
Sevastopol, 520, 527, 717, 710, 720
Shaliapin, Fedor, 5, 493, 607
Shcheglovitov, I. G., 242, 243, 245, 273, 329
Shevchenko, Taras, 74
Shingarev, A. I., 336, 509, 536 and n
Shipov, D. N., 164, 165, 172, 194
Shklovsky, Viktor, 302, 316, 327, 606
Shkuro, A. G., 666, 670
Shliapnikov, Alexander, 295, 297, 301, 311, 323, 476, 610, 731, 764, 765, 766
Sholokhov, Mikhail: And Quiet Flows the Don, 562
Shostakovich, Dmitrii, 738; Second Symphony (‘To October’), 738
Shulgin, Vasilii, 288, 317, 318, 341, 343, 344, 377, 568, 664, 677, 678, 700
Shumsky, Olexander, 708
Shuvaev, General Dmitry, 279
Siberia, 12, 64n, 84, 86, 103, 197, 124, 148, 201, 221, 245, 269, 296, 323, 382, 388, 530, 560, 573, 577, 584–5, 587, 650, 651, 753, 769, 775, 776
Siberian Army, 584–5, 653
Sidorin, General V. I., 662
Simbirsk, 142, 158–9, 165, 386, 532, 580, 584, 592, 611, 653, 753, 776–7
Simferopol, 198
Sinegub, Alexander, 487
Sipiagin, D. S., 8, 167
Skliansky, Emanuil, 720
Skobelev, M. I., 317, 323, 324, 325, 371, 383, 388, 443
Skoropadsky, Hetman Paulo, 549, 555
Slavgorod, 657
Slavophiles, Slavophilism, 66, 80, 87, 134
Smena vekh (Change of Landmarks), 700
Smidovich, S. N., 621
Smilga, Ivan, 475–6, 660n
Smolensk, 258, 596, 753, 774
