Piedmont–Sardinia, 54–5
Pisarev, Dmitry Ivanovich, 48
Plato: as ‘hedgehog’, 2, 91, 93
Pobedonostsev, Konstantin Petrovich, 67
Pogodin, Mikhail Petrovich, 48
Pokrovsky, Konstantin Vasil′evich, 31n, 61n
Polner, Tikhon Ivanovich, 9n
power: Tolstoy on, 26–8, 33–4, 36
Pre-Raphaelites, 84
Proudhon, Pierre Joseph, 51, 66n; La Guerre et la paix, 51, 66n, 74n
Proust, Marceclass="underline" as ‘hedgehog’, 2, 91
Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich: as ‘fox’, 2–4, 95; Dostoevsky’s speech on, 3
Pyatkovsky, Aleksandr Petrovich, 7n
rationalism: and French Revolution, 62
revolutions of 1848–9: and Russia, 62
Rousseau, Jean Jacques: Tolstoy reads and admires, 14, 28, 47–8, 52, 68, 87, 92; on killing, 66n; Maistre denounces, 68; on reasons of the heart, 86; and knowledge, 88; Émile, 47
Rubinshtein, Moisey Matveevich, 9n, 28n
Russia: repression in, 62
Saint-Simon, Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de, 16
Samarin, Yury Fedorovich, 48
Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von: influence on Slavophils, 49;
and Tolstoy, 49; and knowledge, 86
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 51
Schuster, (Max) Lincoln: letter to, 92
science: Tolstoy’s view of, 74–7, 80, 87
Senfft von Pilsach, Ludovike Henriette Karoline, Gräfin (‘Louise’), 66n
Shakespeare, William: as ‘fox’, 2, 4, 91
Shaw, George Bernard, 22, 23n
Shelgunov, Nikolay Vasil′evich, 8
Shklovsky, Viktor Borisovich, 7n, 31n, 46n
Simmons, Ernest Joseph, 8
Simon, (Han) Pauclass="underline" letter to, 93
Slavophils: Tolstoy and, 48–50, 65; Schelling’s influence on, 49; and Maistre, 84
social contract, 27–8, 48
sociology: founding of, 16
Sorel, Albert, 9n, 11, 61, 66
Spencer, Herbert, 48
Speransky, Count Mikhail Mikhailovich, 19, 63
Spinoza, Benedictus de, 31
Staël, Anne Louise Germaine Necker, baronne de, 27
Stalin, Josef Vissarionovich, 9n
Stein, Heinrich Friedrich Karl, Count von und zu, 27
Stendhal (pseudonym of Marie Henri Beyle): influence on Tolstoy, 52, 60, 92; on Maistre, 66; La Chartreuse de Parme, 20n, 52
Sterne, Laurence, 14
Stroganov, Pavel Aleksandrovich, Count, 56
Taine, Hippolyte Adolphe, 87
Talbott, Strobe, 107
Talleyrand, Charles Maurice de, 25
Taylor, Alan John Percivale, 94
Thiers, Louis Adolphe, 14
Todd, Michael (‘Mike’; born Avrom Hirsh Goldbogen), 101
Tolstoy, Lev Nikolaevich: on ultimate truth, xi; as ‘hedgehog’ or ‘fox’, 3–5, 82, 91, 95, 101–2; view of history, 5–16, 18–22, 28–30, 39–40, 46, 48, 64, 69, 71–2, 78–9, 95, 112; Turgenev on, 6, 22, 36, 44; moral-social concerns, 11–12; nihilism, 11, 61, 82; empiricism, 13, 48, 68, 80, 86; reading and influences on, 14, 46–55, 64–6; disbelieves in free will, 29, 32, 51; abhors abstractions, 36–7; attacked for social indifferentism, 36; on false solutions, 39; ideals and reality, 39–42, 71, 80–1, 89–90; creative genius, 42; and personal conflict, 42–4; advocates single vision, 43–4, 79, 102–3; on feeling, 44; idealises simplicity, 47, 69; and Slavophils, 48–50, 65; anti-liberalism, 49, 62–3; aversion to intellectualism, 49, 63; on human suffering, 51; and Speransky, 63; rejects political reform, 69; on science, 74–7, 80, 87; on human limitations, 81–2; destructive force, 83; language, 83; on knowledge, 85–6; tragic temperament, 89–90; Anna Karenina, 72, 79; War and Peace, 5, 36–8, 41, 47–9, 51, 56, 58–60, 62, 64–5, 74n, 78–80, 96
Tolstoy, Nikolay Nikolaevich, 40, 52
Toscanini, Arturo, 103
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich: relation to Pushkin and Dostoevsky, 3; antipathy to Tolstoy, 6, 22, 36, 44; letter from Flaubert, 6; Fathers and Children, 73
Tyutchev, Fedor Ivanovich, 48
Vico, Giambattista, 111
Vitmer, Aleksandr Nikolaevich, 7n
Vogt, Karl, 82
Vogüé, Eugène Marie Melchior, vicomte de, 1, 8, 11, 67
Voltaire (François Marie Arouet): irony, 43; Maistre’s hostility to, 68, 70; on history, 95; reputation, 111
Vyazemsky, Prince Petr Andreevich, 10
Wackenroder, Wilhelm Heinrich, 84
war: Tolstoy on, 21–2, 56, 61, 62, 66, 66n; Maistre on, 57–60, 66 & 66n
Waterloo, battle of (1815), 52
Weidenfeld, (Arthur) George, Baron, xiii, 104, 112n
Wells, Herbert George, 22
White, Morton, xiin
wilclass="underline" freedom of, 29, 32, 51
Wilson, Edmund: letter to, 91; claims IB longs to be ‘hedgehog’, 93–4
Woolf, (Adeline) Virginia, 22
Yakovenko, Boris Valentinovich, 8n
Zenkovsky, Vasily Vasil′evich, 8n
Zhikharev, Stepan Petrovich, 56
Zweig, Stefan, 8