becomes a vociferous critic of the Soviet regime 445
name erased from history as a ‘traitor to the motherland’ 445
partially rehabilitated (1977) 445
death in United States (1979) 445
Tolstaya, Alexandra Ivanovna (née Shchetinina, T’s great-grandmother) 18
Tolstaya, Alexandra Andreyevna
(‘Alexandrine’) 55, 137, 148, 184, 266, 328
calls T ‘the roaring lion’ 48–9
relationship with T 122–3
unmarried and childless 122–3
character 123
well connected at court 123, 339
in Switzerland with T 133–4
and T’s gambling 135
T’s closest confidante 160
Shabunin case 183
asks T to tell her about his children 201
and Samara 212
meets Sonya 245
governess to Alexander II’s youngest children 247
T’s 1878 visit 266, 268, 269
and T’s researches 272, 276, 277
argues with T over religion 280
and Dostoevsky 283
T wants her to intercede on Anna Armfeldt’s behalf 312–13
frosty meeting with T (1897) 366, 399–400
reconciliation with T 400
death 399
Tolstaya, Anna Ilyinichna (T’s granddaughter) 326
Tolstaya, Avdotya Maximovna (nee Tugaeva) 50
Tolstaya, Dora (née Westerlund; T’s daughter-in-law) 403
Tolstaya, Ekaterina Vasilievna (previously Artsimovich
Andrey Lvovich’s second wife) 406
Tolstaya, Elena Sergeyevna (T’s niece) 240–41, 243, 280
Tolstaya, Elizaveta Andreyevna 122, 184
Tolstaya, Maria (Masha
T’s daughter)
Tolstaya, Maria Mikhailovna (Masha
née Shishkina
Sergey’s wife) 90, 94, 233, 244,
Tolstaya, Maria Nikolayevna (née Volkonskaya
T’s mother) death of her mother 23
at Yasnaya Polyana 26–7, 28, 32, 35
education 28–9
character 29, 30
visits St Petersburg 29
death of her fiancé 29
and Louise Henissiénne 30
appearance 30
marriage to Nikolay Ilyich 21, 30, 32
T’s cult of his mother 32
and Nikolay’s character 33
name and nickname for T 33
deeply religious 33
childbirth 34, 35, 42
waits for her husband’s return 35–6
and her mother-in-law 39
and Toinette 43
death (1830) 32, 35
Nikolay Ilyich buried next to her 58
‘The Russian Pamela, or There are No Rules Without Exceptions’ 29
Tolstaya, Maria Nikolayevna (Masha
T’s sister) 125, 152, 268, 404
birth 35, 42
inherits Pirogovo 38
returns to Yasnaya Polyana from Moscow 60–61
relationship with T 61
education 70
leaves Kazan and lives at Yasnaya Polyana 81
property inheritance 81–2
marries Valerian Petrovich 82, 84
childbirth 93
piano-playing 95, 370
Gasha Trubetskaya works for her 96
T gives her his grand piano 103
takes the waters at Pyatigorsk 107
T visits 107, 130, 412, 419
and Turgenev 120, 138–9, 268
looks after Dmitry 123
unhappy marriage 119, 135–6, 241–2, 243
visits Moscow with T 136
travels abroad 141, 142, 155, 241
and secret police raid of Yasnaya Polyana 148
a depressive 240
affair with de Kleen 241, 243
daughter Elena 240–41, 243, 280
death of son Nikolay 280
becomes a nun 280–81, 328, 351
and Syutayev 298
and Vanechka’s death 358
emotional visit to Sonya 419
death 419, 421
Tolstaya, Olga Konstantinovna (née Diterikhs
Andrey’s first wife) 406
Tolstaya, Pelageya Nikolayevna (T’s grandmother) 18–21, 32, 34, 39–41, 46–7, 55, 56, 58–61, 156
Tolstaya, Praskovya Fyodorovna 50
Tolstaya, Sofya Andreyevna (Sonya; née Bers
T’s wife)
birth (1844) 151
education 152
visits Yasnaya Polyana with her mother 152
character 8, 245, 403
appearance 149–50, 297
marriage to T 149, 150, 154–6, 157, 163–4, 183, 202, 236, 243–4, 289, 299, 301, 311, 312, 331, 349, 357, 368, 405, 411, 420, 432
T’s love for her 153, 157
arrival at Yasnaya Polyana 156–7
household duties 6, 157, 204, 207, 231, 239, 279, 299
attitude to peasants 158
T’s copyist 8, 158–9, 164, 174–5, 188, 197, 204, 231, 235–6, 264, 289, 304, 323
autobiography 161–2, 174, 177, 211, 264, 312, 313, 337, 402
pregnancies and childbirth 6, 8, 18, 150, 160–63, 174, 185–8, 237, 239, 245, 258, 279, 289, 291, 292, 299, 301, 312, 326, 327
anxious for T to start another novel after
name-day party 183
provides emotional stability 3, 185
longing for a change of scenery 187, 279–80
passionate about opera 188
teaches at T’s school 197
Christmas at Yasnaya Polyana 206
and
deaths of her children 231, 237, 239, 322–3, 358, 360, 362
gravely ill with peritonitis 239–40, 404
attitude to Alexeyev 264
and T’s Decembrist manuscript 275
and T’s plea for clemency for Alexander II assassins 288, 289
goes out into Moscow society 297, 311, 314
publishes T’s old writings 6, 316
death of her mother 323
twenty-fifth wedding anniversary 326
and
famine relief 336–7, 339, 340
attitude to Tolstoyans 350, 357
defaces Tolstoyan group photograph 357
‘suicide attempts’ 357–8
neglects Sasha 368
piano-playing 95, 370
and T’s excommunication 390
inventory of library and T’s archive 402
short-sightedness 403
undergoes surgery 404
increasingly hostile to Chertkov 410, 411, 412
finds ‘The Devil’ manuscript 410
and T’s royalties 410
threatens to poison herself 411
paranoia and hysteria 411
and Chertkov’s access to T’s diaries 411–12
tries to drown herself after T leaves her 412
and T’s death 412
attends T’s funeral 413
relations with her children 417
