CONTENTS

PART ONE—NURSERY AND UNIVERSITY
1812-1834
Chapter I.
My Nurse and the Grande Armeé—Moscow in Flames—My Father and Napoleon—General Ilovaiski—A Journey with French Prisoners—Patriotism—Calot—Property Managed in Common—The Division—The Senator.
3
 
Chapter II.
Gossip of Nurses and Conversation of Generals—A False Position—Boredom—The Servants’ Hall—Two Germans—Lessons and Reading—Catechism and the Gospel.
28
 
Chapter III.
Death of Alexander I—The Fourteenth of December—Moral Awakening—Bouchot—My Cousin—N. Ogaryóv.
62
 
Chapter IV.
My Friend Niko and the Sparrow Hills.
85
 
Chapter V.
Details of Home Life—Men of the Eighteenth Century in Russia—A Day at Home—Guests and Visitors—Sonnenberg—Servants.
95
 
Chapter VI.
The Kremlin Offices—Moscow University—The Chemist—The Cholera—Philaret—Passek.
120
 
Chapter VII.
End of College Life—The “Schiller” Stage—Youth—The Artistic Life—Saint—Simonianism and N. Polevói—Polezháev.
173
PART TWO—PRISON AND EXILE
1834-1838
Chapter I.
A Prophecy—Ogaryóv’s Arrest—The Fires—A Moscow Liberal—Mihail Orlóv—The Churchyard.
201
 
Chapter II.
Arrest—The Independent Witness—A Police-Station—Patriarchal Justice.
214
 
Chapter III.
Under the Belfry—A Travelled Policeman—The Incendiaries.
222
 
Chapter IV.
The Krutitski Barracks—A Policeman’s Story—The Officers.
235
 
Chapter V.
The Enquiry—Golitsyn Senior—Golitsyn Junior—General Staal—The Sentence—Sokolovski.
246
 
Chapter VI.
Exile—A Chief Constable—The Volga—Perm.
265
 
Chapter VII.
Vyatka—The Office and Dinner-table of His Excellency—Tufáyev.
283
 
Chapter VIII.
Officials—Siberian Governors—A Bird of Prey—A Gentle Judge—An Inspector Roasted—The Tatar—A Boy of the Female Sex—The Potato Revolt—Russian Justice.
307
 
Chapter IX.
Alexander Vitberg.
342
 
Chapter X.
The Crown Prince at Vyatka—The Fall of Tufáyev—Transferred to Vladímir—The Inspector’s Enquiry.
360
 
Chapter XI.
The Beginning of my Life at Vladímir.
374