Poet, of whom Tolstoy said that he "had no spark" and "drank out of other people's cups." (Diary, 1857.)
Ziiukovsky, Vasit.y Andreyevich (1783 1852).
Russian poet of romantic and mystical temperament; encouraged Tsar Alexander II, whose tutor he had been, to emancipate the serfs.
Notes to the Text
Part I, Chapter i
Leo Tolstoy used this incident in War and Peace: Marya Bolkonsky begs her brother, who is going off to war, to wear a little icon to protect him from the shells. The exploits of the Volfconsky family, moreover, do not stop there: one of the prince's relatives (Nicholas Grigoryevich Volkon- sky) covered himself in glory during the Napoleonic wars, while another (Sergey Grigoryevich) was sent to Siberia in 1826 for his part in the Decembrist plot, and spent thirty years in exile.
Letter (in French) to T. A. Ergolskava.
Tolstoy used this episode in Resurrection. He also noted, in his Renii niscencesy that "Mishenka often came to beg help of us, his brothers, when we had grown up. I remember the feeling of helplessness and dismay that would overcome me when this brother, who had become a beggar, and who resembled my father more closely than any of the rest of us, would ask for help and be thankful for the ten or fifteen rubles we gave him."
In War and Peace the servants carry a black sofa to Princess Marya when she is about to give birth; the same black leather divan appears in the Levin home in one version of Anna Karenina.
Vlasov: Reminiscences of Tolstoy, a manuscript quoted by Gusev.
Part I, Chapter 2
Diary, January 10, 1908.
Written on a loose sheet of paper, dated March 10, 1906.
Reminiscences of Leo Tolstoy.
Ibid.
Ibid.
From a rough draft of Childhood.
The Old IIorsef an autobiographical story for children (1872).
From an unfinished autobiographical sketch, Notes of a Madman.
Ibid.
Childhood, Chapter VII.
Part I, Cuaptf.r 3
Written in French.
Childhood, Chapter XXVIII.
Scene reported in a sketch for Childhood.
Boyhood, Chapter XV.
Ibid.
Childhood, Chapter XXIV. And on November 27, 1903, when Tolstoy was seventy-five, he wrote to Biryukov: "My greatest love was a childhood love—for little Sonya Koloshin." And as early as 1890 (June 24), he wrote in his diary, "Thought of writing a book about love, like for Sonya Koloshin- a love that would preclude the transition to sensuality, that would be the best possible protection against sensuality."
The Cossacks, Chapter XXII.
War and Peace, Volume II, Book IX, Chapter XII.
Childhood, Chapter XIX.
Told by Leo Tolstoy to Biryukov, his biographer.
Boyhood, Chapter XXIII.
Unfinished autobiographical story: What I Am.
Boyhood, Chapter I.
Ibid.
Ibid., Chapter XIX.
Letter written (in French) in February 1840; preserved in the Manuscripts Department of the Tolstoy Museum.
Fart I, Chapter 4
Tumelli, assistant at the University of Kazan.
Youth, Chapter I.
Ibid., Chapter XXXI.
Ibid., Chapter II.
Ibid., Chapter V.
Ibid., Chapter XIII.
Letter from Mrs. Zamitsin to Mrs. Molostvov, dated January 13, 1906.
The Kazan Government Neivs, 1845, No. 11.
Boyhood, Chapter XXVI.
Ibid., Chapter XXVII.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid., Chapter VI.
Ibid.
N. N. Gusev: Tolstoy in His Youth.
Youth, Chapter XLV.
Ibid., Chapter XXVIII.
I bid.. Chapter XXXII.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Complete Worts, Volume 1, p. 233.
Youth.
Complete Works, Volume 46, pp. 262-72.
Remark by Tolstoy on Biryukov's book. Complete Works, Volume 3, p. 398.
Note, January 4, 1857, in a notebook. Complete Works, Volume 47, p. 201.
Diary, April 17, 1847.
Fart I, Chapter 5
A Landlord's Morning, Chapter XIX.
Ibid.
Letter from Tolstoy to Grigorovieh, October 27, 1893.
Draft of the article "The Slavery of Our Times."
Written (in French) in late February-early March 1849.
Letter to Sergey, May 11, 1849.
Letter of June 1846.
Draft of a letter, quoted by Gusev.
Dunyasha died in 1879. Entrv in Tolstoy's diary dated October 14,
1897.
Diary, August 10, 1851.
Reminiscences of Leo Tolstoy.
Diary, January 17, 1851.
Letter from Tolstoy to his sister, March 3, 1851.
Letter, December 24, 1850.
Cf. Biryukov.
Diary, January 1, 1851.
Leo Tolstoy: The Four Readers.
Letter (in French), May 8, 1851.
The Cossacks, Chapter II.
Letter (in French), May 8, 1851.
PART II, Chapter 1
Diary, May 30, 1851.
Letter (in French), June 22, 1851.
Diary, August 10, 1851.
Ibid., Stary Yurt, June 11, 1851.
Letter to Aunt Toinette, June 22, 1851. Tolstoy described Captain Khilkovsky, under the name of Khlopov, in The Raid.
Diary, July 4, 1851.
The Raid, Chapter IV.
Ibid.f Chapter IX.
Ibid., Chapter IX. This very early work (The Raid was written in1852), contains the seed of Tolstoy's bitter animosity toward the French army.
First draft of The Raid.
Diary, July 3, 1851.
Ibid., June 8, 1851.
Childhood.
Diary, August 22, 1851.
The Cossacksy Chapter IV.
Ibid., Chapter VI.
Ibid.y Chapter XI.
Rough draft of The Cossacks (Variant 12).
The Cossacks, Chapter XIV.
Ibid., Chapter XII.
Diary, August 25, 1851.
Ibid.f August 26, 1851.
Ibid., May 4, 1853.
Ibid., June 25, 1853.
Ibid., March 20, 1852.
The Cossacks, Chapter XXV.
Ibid., Chapter XXXIII.
Letter (in French), January 6, 1852.
Ibid.
Ibid.