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i n d e x acmeists, 172 Aikhenval’d, Iu. A., 163 Akhmatova, Anna A., 172 alcoholism, 97, 141, 151, 190n. 68 Alexander II (tsar), 32, 47, 119, 123 Alexander III (tsar), 131 Amenitskii, D. A., 69, 127 Andreev, Leonid, 122, 127 Antonovich, M. A., 197n. 18 Aristotle, 145 art: “for art’s sake,” 17; of the insane, 65– 66, 121; social mission of, 7, 8, 15, 38, 119–20, 123, 177 Artsybashev, Mikhail, 119 Asatiani, Mikhail M., 142–43, 210n. 69, 226n. 93 Avtokratov, P. M., 153 Baer, Karl Ernst von, 83 Bakhmet’ev, P. I., 233n. 88 Bakunin, Mikhail A., 83 Balaban, N. I., 174–75 Balinskii, Ivan M., 11–12 Bal’mont, Konstantin, 121 Balzac, Honoré de, 174, 184n. 30 Bashkirtseva, Maria, 202n. 78 Baudelaire, Charles, 35, 60, 120 Bazhenov, Nikolai N. (son), 200n. 49 Bazhenov, Nikolai Nikolaevich (father), 20–23, 56–73, 135, 150–51, 199nn. 43, 49, 201n. 73; on decadent art, 60, 66, 199nn. 47–48; on Dostoevsky, 9, 46, 66–73, 184n. 24, 202n. 81; as Freemason, 60, 63, 65, 210n. 65; on Garshin, 131–32; on genius, 73, 202n. 78; on Gogol, 15, 20– 23; La suggestion et ses limites, 64, 202n. 78; on progeneration, 9, 22–23, 46, 65; political views of, 60, 62, 64, 139, 200n. 61 Beard, George M., 125, 134 Beardsley, Aubrey, 120 Becker, Maria, 212n. 94 Beethoven, Ludwig van, 204n. 105 Bekhterev,Vladimir M., 12, 126, 136, 191nn. 71, 82; on “Pantheon of Brain,” 165; Psychoneurological Academy, 157 Belinsky,Vissarion G., 8, 20, 34, 114; on Dostoevsky, 46–47, 49; “Letter to N.V. Gogol,” 16–17, 38, 47 Bely, Andrei (Boris Bugaev), 60, 172 Bem, Alfred L., 111, 113–14 Berdiaev, N. A., 110, 114, 218n. 168 Bergson, Henri, 34 Berlin, Isaiah, 17–18, 47, 77–78 Bernard, Claude, 84, 207n. 30 Bernhardt, Sarah, 57 Bernheim, Hippolyte, 27, 102–4 Bernshtein, Alexander N., 91, 141–42, 225n. 84 Binet, Alfred, 141 Binet-Sanglé, Charles, 236n. 123 Bleuler, Eugen, 105 Blok, Alexander, 172 Botkin, Sergei P., 34 Bourdon, Benjamin, 141 Bourget, Paul, 218n. 2 Brandes, Georg, 53 Breuer, Josef, 102, 104, 184n. 30 Briusov,Valerii, 120, 219n. 8 Buddha, 173 Bulgakov,V. F., 110 Butashevich-Petrashevsky, M.V., 47 Byron, Lord, 2, 174 Catherine II (empress), 11 Cattell, James McKeen, 29, 189nn. 56, 58 Central Institute of Labor, 145, 227n. 2 Cervantes, Miguel de, 10, 129, 131–32 Charcot, Jean-Martin, 27, 63–65, 102 Chekhov, Anton P., 61, 122–23, 128, 164, Chekhov, Anton P. (continued) 208n. 48; “Heartache,” 118; “Ward No. 6,” 130 Chelpanov, Georgii I., 33, 226n. 91 Chernyshevsky, Nikolai G., 6, 7, 48; on Gogol, 19, 20; religiosity, 114; on Tolstoy, 76, 84, 207n. 28; What Is to Be Done?, 7, 48–49, 129 Chizh,Vladimir Fedorovich (Woldemar von Tchisch), 23–38, 164; and Cattell, 189n. 58; conservatism of, 25, 42–43, 195n. 133; on Dostoevsky, 8, 25, 34, 50– 52, 56, 69; on Gogol, 8, 15, 23, 35, 38, 42, 193n. 110; and Kraepelin, 30, 32–33, 191n. 71; on Nietzsche, 195n. 139; on Pushkin, 34–35, 235n. 113; on Turgenev, 8, 34; use of drugs, 27, 29, 189n. 58, 191n. 70; as Wundt’s follower, 28, 32, 190n. 61, 191n. 73 Comte, Auguste, 83, 132 Congresses of Russian Psychiatrists and Neuropathologists: First, 12, 43; Second, 37, 41, 136–38, 141 creative illness, 56, 70–71, 145, 163, 168, 204n. 102 Crimean War, 11, 85 criminal anthropology, 24, 57 Danillo, S. P., 27, 188n. 45 d’Arc, Jeanne, 132 Darwin, Charles, 25, 35, 83 decadence: in art, 53–54, 119–23, 142, 172 (see also Bazhenov); in Russia compared to Western Europe, 117–18, 218n. 2; the term, 218n. 8 degeneration, 20, 22, 24, 40, 71, 165; and art, 71, 117, 126 (see also genius); reconsidered , 9, 63, 69, 73; social causes of, 123–24, 126, 135 Déjerine, Joseph-Jules, 105 Delboeuf, Joseph, 27 deviance theory, 2–3, 182n. 10 Dickens, Charles, 6 Dilthey, Wilhelm, 92–93 dispensary: for alcoholics and the nervously ill, 151–52, 156; for geniuses, 162, 175; for the tubercular, 151–52; “united,” 175. See also neuropsychiatric dispensary Dobroliubov, Nikolai A., 7, 114, 129 Donders, F. C., 32 Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich, 17, 45– 58, 65–73, 114, 119, 167; alleged “nervousness ,” 47, 49; criticism of, 50, 171; epilepsy of, 9, 45, 50, 53, 56, 67, 171–72, 197n. 6, 202n. 81; illustrations of mental illness in works of, 7, 50–51, 54, 69–70, 120–21; knowledge...

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