Chapter I: Part ONE: Nursery and University

1812-1834

Chapter I. 3
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.

Chapter II. 28
Gossip of Nurses and Conversation of Generals—A
False Position—Boredom—The Servants’ Hall—Two
Germans—Lessons and Reading—Catechism and the
Gospel.

Chapter III. 62
Death of Alexander I—The Fourteenth of
December—Moral Awakening—Bouchot—My Cousin—N.
Ogaryóv.

Chapter IV. 85
My Friend Niko and the Sparrow Hills.

Chapter V. 95
Details of Home Life—Men of the Eighteenth
Century in Russia—A Day at Home—Guests and
Visitors—Sonnenberg—Servants.

Chapter VI. 120
The Kremlin Offices—Moscow University—The
Chemist—The Cholera—Philaret—Passek.

Chapter VII. 173
End of College Life—The “Schiller”
Stage—Youth—The Artistic Life—Saint—Simonianism
and N. Polevói—Polezháev.