30 f., 40, 111, 204
Nechaev, 218
Nekrasov, 229 f., 234
Nicholas, 44
Nicholas, Emperor, 160
Nicholas I, 103
Nihilism, 152, 163, 171, 173, 179, 217, 218, 227
Nikitin, 238
Norsemen in Russia, 10
_Odyssey_, the, Russian translation of, 52
Ostrovsky, 193 f.
Palaeologa, Sophia, 21
Paris revolution of 1848, the, 159
Parnassian poetry, the epoch of, 226 f.
Pater, Walter, 247, 248
Paul, Emperor, 33
Peter the Great, 21, 24 f., 71, 85, 97
---- ---- of Poetry, the, 95
Petrashevsky and his followers, 159, 160
Pisarev, 180, 181, 227
Pisemsky, 191, 193
Poe, E. A., 86
Poland, 21, 24
Poland, the rising in, 180
Poles occupy Moscow, 24
Polevoy, 142
Polezhaev, 101
Polonsky, 232, 233 f.
Polotsky, Simeon, 22 f.
Preobrazhenskoe and its theatre, 23
Pre-Raphaelites, the, 226
Printing press, the first, 21
Propagandists of Western Ideas the, 148 f.
Prutkov, Kuzma. _See_ Tolstoy, Count Alexis.
Pugachev and the Cossack rising, 80
Pushkin vi, 18, 34, 41, 43, 50, 54 f., 109, 110, 123, 126, 132,
135, 138, 143, 162, 167, 220
Radishchev, 27 f.
Rakhmaninov, 81
Rimsky-Korsakov, 81
Rodionovna, Anna, 84, 85
Rome, Gogol settles in, 133
Rousseau, 27
Russia and political liberty, 148
----, Norsemen in, 10, 11
----, Tartar invasion of, 19, 24
----, the revolutionary movement of 1905, 243, 248, 249
Russian literature, beginnings of, 9 f.
---- ----, dawn of, 30 f.
---- ----, second renascence of, 159
---- ----, the age of prose, 126 f.
---- ----, the second age of poetry, 226 f.
---- newspaper, the first, 25
---- Nihilism. _See_ Nihilism.
---- trade centres, 10
Russia's national poet, 95
Russo-Japanese War, the, 243
Ryleev, 44
Sainte-Beuve, 146
St. Petersburg, 10
---- Jesuits, the, 148
----, the great floods of 1834, 85
Saltykov, Michael, vi, 184 f., 190 f.
Sand, George, 162
Schiller's _Maid of Orleans_, Russian translation of, 52
Schumann of Russian literature, the, 175
Seekers after God, 198
Serfs, emancipation of the, 160, 227
Shakespeare, Pushkin on, 65, 66
Shchedrin. _See_ Saltykov.
Siberia, Dostoyevsky
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