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231 Acis and Galatea (Lorrain painting), 146 The Adolescent, 37, 210n7 advances (monetary) as debts, 60–61 aesthetic experience and redemption, 79 Akim Akimovitch (Notes), 101, 113 “Akulka’s Husband” (Notes), 89, 103, 105– 6, 218nn15–16 Alexander the Kalmuck (Notes), 102–3 Aley (Notes), 110–11, 113, 114–15 Alyona Ivanovna (CP), 50 Alyosha Karamazov (BK) and child suffering, 32, 35–36 as Christian, 6 and FD’s anxieties about faith, 24 moral center of BK, 3 as Russian socialist, 44 as substitute, 164 America, 16 animals butchering of pig, 104 children’s cruelty toward, 168 dogs, 106 horse in dream, 85–86, 124–27 horses, abused, 56, 97 sinlessness of, 71 violence against, in Notes, 106 Anna Karenina (Tolstoy), 171 anti-Semitism, 6–7, 9, 16–19, 202n28 see also Jewish idea; Jews Apollo Belvedere (statue), 79 apologetic criticism, 16–18 Aristov (Notes), 101, 112–13 art and hope in redemption, 79 “At Tikhon’s” (omitted chapter from Demons ), 147, 149, 155, 156 Atheism (proposed novel), 142–43 Austria, 185–86 authorities, political and spiritual abuse of children, 178–79 and capital punishment, 137–38 entitlement to use sacrificial exchange logic, 32, 126, 130, 138, 187 and parents, 182 unaccountable to individual morality, 8, 183 Balkan War atrocities in, 168, 177–78, 184, 185, 187, 189, 193 flaying skin of a father, 178, 189, 190, 192, 194 as Jewish maneuver, 53 Index Fictional characters are indexed under the name by which they are best known (e.g., Raskonikov , Sonia) and followed by the name or abbreviation of the book in which they appear. This index uses the following abbreviations: BK The Brothers Karamazov CP Crime and Punishment FD Fyodor Dostoevsky Notes Notes from the House of the Dead Index 232 and resurrection, 134 Russian intervention in, 32, 89, 171–73, 191 suffering Europe is willing to allow, 8, 183 and victims and victimizers, 50 Beaconsfield, Viscount. See Disraeli, Benjamin (Lord Beaconsfield) Belinsky, Vissarion, 191 benefits in Disraeli’s civilization and God’s harmony , 189 and substitution doctrine, 164–65 and Zosima, 11, 75, 131, 160–61 The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb (Holbein painting), 103, 133, 134, 140, 222n1 boy torn apart by dogs, incident of, 168–69, 170, 177 brotherhood of slaves and masters, 154 see also unity of humanity The Brothers Karamazov child sacrifice in, 32, 35–36 crimes against fathers, 210n7 dialogue with Diary, 12, 44, 157, 204n11 and FD’s anxieties about faith, 24, 26–27 real examples of cruelty in, 158, 160, 177 reason and faith in, 9, 166 and Russian idea, 42 ultimate failure to solve dilemma of innocent suffering, 197–98 as work about children, 37–39 Bulgarians, atrocities against, 172, 178, 184, 185, 187, 189, 193 Bulkin (Notes), 104 Bumstein, Isaiah Fomich (Notes), 92, 111– 14, 119, 219n19 Camus, Albert, 36, 210n19 capital punishment, 137–38 Catholicism, 27, 50, 51–53, 135 certainty, sense of, in FD’s writings, 23 child abuse alleged, by FD, 223n11 Crime and Punishment, 37, 123 in Diary, 177, 178–82 FD responsible for death of daughter, 47, 55–56 as measure of moral worth, 75 by political and spiritual authorities, 178–79 by Russians, 48–50, 178–80 as unforgivable, 146, 147–48 in West (Europe), 48–50, 55, 176–77, 184–85 see also child sacrifice; child suffering child advocacy in Diary, 174 child sacrifice Crucifixion as, 8–9, 31–45, 202n32 in Job, 161–62, 173 permissible in Christianity, 32 redemption through, 35, 78–80, 89 see also child abuse; child suffering child suffering and Christ, 32–37 in notebooks, 38–39 Passion as instances of, 35–36, 39, 89, 157–58 rebellion against, 73, 158–59, 225n2 salvation economy, 31–32, 151 theodicy, 39–45 see also child abuse; child suffering; suffering of innocents children as measure of moral health, 176–77 as mediators, 33–34 need to justify child’s love, 210n7 in Poor Folk, 71 as sinners, 167–69 and Zosima, 33, 35–36 children, sanctity of dying child in Demons, 48 in FD’s spirituality, 7, 32–37 Raskolnikov, 36 Children (proposed novel), 39 Christ difficulty of resurrection through, 134 distinguished from God-Father, 10, 148 divinity of, 154 in FD’s spirituality, 32–37 as great man asserting power, 121 Holbein’s depiction of, 103, 133, 134, 140, 222n1 in Idiot, 140 inability to mediate, 145 Raskolnikov’s identification with, 126, 128–29, 220n2 relationship with Russian people, 195–96 Russianization of, 142 self...