A people's tragedy

St Petersburg/Petrograd, 3–5, 6, 8–9, 22, 26, 29, 37, 45, 47, 68, 72n, 111–12, 117, 124, 127, 132, 138, 146, 147, 148, 165, 167, 173, 175, 196, 197, 199, 233, 242, 250, 273, 275, 277, 297, 301, 302, 345, 367, 368, 370, 381, 383, 400; Alexander Nevsky Monastery, 528; Alexander Nevsky Temple-Monument, 9; Anichkov Palace, 500–1; armed demonstration (June 1917), 396–7, 404; Astoria Hotel, 683; ‘Bloody Sunday’ (January 1905), 173–80, 185, 186, 192, 199, 300, 310, 514; capital moved to Moscow from, 550–1, 603; cholera epidemics, 112; Constituent Assembly elections, 508; Duma election, 457, 458; February Revolution (1917), 307–23, 339, 340, 348–9, 396; Finland Station, 384–7, 483; food shortages, 300, 307–8; general strikes, 189, 232; Gostiny Dvor, 311, 530; Griboyedov Canal, 313; Hotel France, 493; industrial crisis (1917–18), 610, 624, 626; July Days, 421–33, 435, 436; Kazan Cathedral, 3, 9, 167, 178, 310, 319; Kshesinskaya Mansion, 387, 425, 427, 433; Kresty jail, 204, 219, 314, 324; Liteiny Bridge, 308, 309, 310; Liteiny Prospekt, 37, 514; Marinskaya Hospital, 536n; Marinsky Palace, 216, 217, 328, 354, 381, 429, 485; Marinsky Theatre, 4–5, 12, 24, 493, 686; martial law in, 513; Mikhailovsky Theatre, 290; mutiny of garrison (1917), 313–16, 330, 340, 396; name changed to Petrograd (1914), 251; Narodny Dom, 493; Narva Gates, 176, 178n; Nevsky Prospekt, 3, 4, 6, 37, 177, 180, 192, 308, 309, 310, 312, 313, 316, 319, 368–9, 382, 404, 424, 428, 493, 530, 605, 606, 673, 759, 763; Nikolaevsky Station, 327, 340, 482, 483, 540, 673; October insurrection, 482–97; peasants in, 108, 111; Police HQ, 317; political strikes (1917), 300–2, 309–10; post-Revolution, 603–4, 605, 609, 610; Preobrazhensky Cemetery, 514; renamed Leningrad (1924), 805; St Isaac’s Cathedral, 9, 144, 441, 673; statue of Alexander III, 15, 400, 482; The Storming of the Winter Palace staged in (1920), 739; Temple of Christ’s Resurrection, 9; Tercentenary Cathedral, 9; Theological Academy, 174; Troitsky Bridge, 177, 309; University, 125, 144, 165, 166, 222, 314; Vasilevsky Island, 759; Vladimir Prospekt, 312; workers’ strikes (1921), 759–60, 761; Yudenich’s offensive against, 670–5, 681, 761; Znamenskaya Square, 15, 187, 309, 311, 312, 313, 400. See also Peter and Paul Fortress; Smolny Institute; Tauride Palace; Vyborg district; Winter Palace

Samara, 106, 206, 366, 459, 566, 575–9, 581–5, 612, 644, 653, 753, 757, 776, 795

Samarin, Iurii, 36, 277

Samosudy (mob trials), 400–1, 402, 525, 533, 534

Samsonov, General Alexander, 255, 256, 261

Sapozhkov, A. P., 756

Saratov, 44, 106, 131, 157, 223, 225, 365, 459, 463, 600, 605, 611, 621, 662, 664, 741, 752–5

Savinkov, Boris, 170n, 443–4, 446, 449, 450, 451, 559; The Pale Horse, 209; Yaroslavl’ uprising of, 642 and n

Sazonov, S. D., 249, 251, 275, 278, 652n

Schlieffen Plan, 253–4, 256

Schreider, Grigorii, 487, 488, 509

Sechenov, Ivan, The Reflexes of the Brain, 733

Sejm (Finnish parliament), 375, 376

Semashko, A. I., 423

Semenov, Grigorii, 651, 659

Semenov, Sergei, xiii, 53, 94, 232–9, 241, 361–3, 447, 463, 609, 617, 753, 773, 789, 790, 791; on Andreevskoe, 104, 107, 109, 751–2; as Duma deputy, 217; in exile, 234, 786; Maliutin’s feud with, 232–3, 234, 235–6, 237, 238, 362, 363, 786, 787–8; murder of (1922), 787–8; reforms in Andreevskoe of, 183, 184, 233–6, 237–9, 362–3, 786–8, 789; and Tolstoy, 160, 183, 233, 234; Volokolamsk co-operative movement pioneered by, 612, 786

Semenov, Tatiana, 362

Semipalatinsk, 654, 658

Semirechie, 710

Serafimovich, Alexander: The Iron Flood, 563n

Serbia, 247, 250–1, 258

Serfdom, 46–7, 48; legacies of, 47, 53–4, 57, 96, 97

Serge, Viktor, 607, 609, 674, 821

Serov, Ivan, 756

Sevastopol, 520, 527, 717, 710, 720

Shaliapin, Fedor, 5, 493, 607

Shcheglovitov, I. G., 242, 243, 245, 273, 329

Shevchenko, Taras, 74

Shingarev, A. I., 336, 509, 536 and n

Shipov, D. N., 164, 165, 172, 194

Shklovsky, Viktor, 302, 316, 327, 606

Shkuro, A. G., 666, 670

Shliapnikov, Alexander, 295, 297, 301, 311, 323, 476, 610, 731, 764, 765, 766

Sholokhov, Mikhail: And Quiet Flows the Don, 562

Shostakovich, Dmitrii, 738; Second Symphony (‘To October’), 738

Shulgin, Vasilii, 288, 317, 318, 341, 343, 344, 377, 568, 664, 677, 678, 700

Shumsky, Olexander, 708

Shuvaev, General Dmitry, 279

Siberia, 12, 64n, 84, 86, 103, 197, 124, 148, 201, 221, 245, 269, 296, 323, 382, 388, 530, 560, 573, 577, 584–5, 587, 650, 651, 753, 769, 775, 776

Siberian Army, 584–5, 653

Sidorin, General V. I., 662

Simbirsk, 142, 158–9, 165, 386, 532, 580, 584, 592, 611, 653, 753, 776–7

Simferopol, 198

Sinegub, Alexander, 487

Sipiagin, D. S., 8, 167

Skliansky, Emanuil, 720

Skobelev, M. I., 317, 323, 324, 325, 371, 383, 388, 443

Skoropadsky, Hetman Paulo, 549, 555

Slavgorod, 657

Slavophiles, Slavophilism, 66, 80, 87, 134

Smena vekh (Change of Landmarks), 700

Smidovich, S. N., 621

Smilga, Ivan, 475–6, 660n

Smolensk, 258, 596, 753, 774