“Requiem, The” (“Panikhida”), 27–37, 75, 400
Resurrection, 150
“Revenge,” 403
“Romance with Double-Bass” (“Roman s Kontrabasom”), 117, 401
“Rook, The,” 81, 401
Rossolimo, Grigory, 305
Rozanov, Pavel, 14–15, 214
Rubina, Dina, 211, 314
“Runaway, The” (“Beglets”), 343–345, 405
Russian Revolution, 185
Russian Thought, 161
Russkoye Bogatstvo, 222
S
Sakharova, Elizaveta, 128, 202
Schechtel, Franz 1886–1887, xvi, 23, 39, 46, 117, 180
1887–1888, 223, 250, 267, 305–306, 310, 330
“Schoolmaster, The” (“Uchitel’ ”), 124–126, 397, 402
Seagull, The, 106, 255, 349
Selivanova, Alexandra, 297
“Serious Step, A” (“Ser’eznyi Shag”), 121, 402
Shakespeare, William, 117, 218, 355
Shavrova, Yelena, 272
Shcheglov, 377–378, 385–386
Shchepkina-Kupernik, Tatyana, 4
“Shining Character, A: The Story of an ‘Idealist’ ” (“Svetlaya Lichnost’: Rasskaz ‘Idealista’ ”), 402
“Shrove Tuesday” (“Nakanune Posta”), 254, 404
Simmons, Ernest, xv, 45, 150
“Siren, The” (“Sirena”), 332, 339, 405
“Sister, The,” 193
skits 1886 skits, xx, 4–5, 12–14, 17, 27, 36, 65, 107–109, 117, 162, 178, 188, 194
1887 skits, 346, 395
see also specific skits
Smith, Virginia Llewellyn, 368
Society of Playwrights, 370
Solovyov and Larionov, 308
“Spick and Span,” 10
Spirin, Gennady, 389
“Sportsman’s Sketches, A,” 85
“Spring Pictures,” 82, 85, 401
“Spring: The Monologue of a Cat” (“Vesnoy”), 276–277, 293, 405
St. Petersburg Gazette, 4–7. See also Petersburg Gazette
“Statistics,” 403
“Steppe, The,” 182, 319, 397
stories 1886 stories, ix–xii, xv–xvii, 3–207, 395–397, 399–404
1887 stories, ix–xii, xv–xvii, 209–397, 399, 404–406
1888 stories, 392, 397, 406
list of, 399–406
see also specific stories
“Story without a Title, A” (“Bez Zaglaviya”), 392–393, 406
“Story without an End” (“Rasskaz bez Kontsa”), xvi–xvii, 55–61, 400
“Stray Bullets,” 318, 324
“Strong Impressions” (“Sil’nye Oshchushcheniya”), 102–103, 401
Struve, Gleb, 247
“Stupid Frenchman, The” (“Glupy Frantsuz”), 400
Suvorin, Aleksei 1886–1887, ix, 6, 11, 23, 27, 35–38, 40, 53, 60, 74–79, 86, 95, 98–101, 104, 107–108, 133, 186, 202
1887–1888, 212, 217, 220–224, 245–246, 250–251, 254, 265–267, 270–274, 277, 281, 292–295, 307–310, 319, 323–326, 330, 337–338, 344–346, 349, 356–360, 371–376, 388
Suvorin, Volodya (Vladimir), 295, 308–309, 319, 324
“Swansong,” 188
T
“Talent,” 145, 402
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich, xx, 286, 291
“Tedium Vitae,” 401
Temptation of St. Anthony, The, 4
Thoreau, Henry David, 358
Three Sisters, 349
Tikhonov, Vladimir A., 396
“Tips for Husbands” (“K Svedeniyu Muzhei”), 14, 400
Tolstoy, Helena, 185
Tolstoy, Lev 1886–1887, ix–xi, 61, 74, 77, 109, 132, 140, 150, 153, 155, 157, 172, 175, 187–190, 193, 200
1887–1888, 211, 218, 222, 229, 251, 259, 290, 312, 345, 378, 381, 393, 396–397
Tolstoy Studies Journal, 153
“Too Early!” (“Rano!”), 265–267, 404
“Transgression, A” (“Bezzakonie”), 316–318, 405
Trefolev, Leonid, 346
“Trifle from Life, A” (“Zhiteyskaya Meloch’ ”), 159, 403
“Tripping Tongue, A” (“Dlinniy Yazik”), 402
“Trivial Incident, A” (“Pustoy Sluchay”), 157–159, 274, 402
“Trouble, The” (“Beda”), 196
“Troublesome Visitor, A” (“Bespokoinyi Gost’ ”), xi, 127, 402
Turgenev, Ivan, xi, 52, 74, 85, 180, 193, 218, 298, 356
“Ty i Vy” (“You [informal] and You [formal]”), 130
“Typhus,” 272–275, 404
U
Uncle Vanya, 232, 349
Unknown Chekhov, The, 130
“Unpleasant Story, An” (“Nepryatnaya Istoriya”), 315, 405
“Upheaval, An” (“Perepolokh”), 26, 400
“Uprooted: An Incident from My Travels” (“Perekati-Pole”), 299–303, 319, 405
Ural’sky, Mark, 185
Uspensky, S. P., 124, 128, 312
V
“Vanka,” 205–206, 206, 403
Verner, Evgeny, 356, 361–362
Verner, Mikhail, 356, 361–362
“Verochka,” 251–255, 404
“Visiting Cards” (“Vizitnye Kartochki”), 6, 399
Vodolazkin, Eugene, 308
“Volodya,” 308–310, 405
von Kleist, Heinrich, 228
W
Walden, 358
“Wedding, The” (“Svadba”), 342–343, 405
“Whining: A Letter from Far Away” (“Nyt’e: Pis’mo Izdaleka”), 177, 403
“Whitebrow,” 388
“Who Was She?” (“To Bila Ona?”), 206, 404
“Who Was to Blame?” (“Kto Vinovat?”), 202, 403
Whole World Illustrated, The, 55
“Who’s Happier,” 180–181
“Witch, The,” 36, 38, 53–54, 62, 76, 79, 120, 203–204, 400
“Wolf, The” (“Volk”), 73, 109, 401
“Women Make Trouble” (“Ti i Vi”), 130, 402
“Work of Art, A” (“Proizvedenie Iskusstva”), 202, 403
World War I, 185
World War II, 185
Y
Yakovlevna, Evgenia, xv, 199
Yanov, Alexander, 3–4
Yanov, N. S., 23
Yanova, Maria, 3–4, 23, 26
Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, 130
Yavorskaya, Lidiya, 4
Z
“Zinochka,” 328–330, 405
Zinovieff, Kyril, 113
Zlatovratsky, Nikolai, 117, 180
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