Russia in the Age of Alexander II, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky

Walter G. Moss is Professor at the Department of History and Philosophy at East Michigan University.

• An Emperor's Funeral, 1855; Lieutenant Tolstoy in the Crimea; The Tsar Visits Moscow; A Professor and a Banquet; Tolstoy in the Capital; The Tsar, the Serfs and the Coronation; Dostoevsky in Exile; Michael Bakunin; The Muravievs and Perovskys, Siberia and China; Two Noblemen: Tolstoy and Turgenev; Herzen and 'The Bell' in London; Tolstoy and Bakunin visit Herzen; Turgenev and Dostoevsky visit Herzen; A Fateful Year, 1866; Nekrasov and Muraviev the Hangman; The Perovskys and Herzen in Geneva; Dostoevsy and Anna Snitkina; Professor Soloviev and his Family; Tolstoy: A Marriage and a Masterpiece; A Shot in Paris; Turgenev and Dostoevsky in Baden-Baden; The Dostoevskys in Geneva; Nechaev, Bakunin and the Last Days of Herzen; The Tsar Visits london, 1874; Dostoevsky in Bad Ems; Sophia Perovskaya, Radicalism and the Russian People; A Mystic in the Desert;The Tsar at the Front; The Death of Nekrasov; A Visit to a Monastery; Tolstoy Apologizes; 'Prophet, Prophet': Dostoevsky's Pushkin Speech; A Death and a Marriage; Two Conspirators; Bombs and Blood; The Trial; Two Appeals; A Spectacle on Semenovsky Square; Epilogue; Who's Who?; Chronology; Endnotes; A Note on Principal Sources; Bibliography of Printed Materials; Index