The Last Man in Russia: The Struggle to Save a Dying Nation (62 page)

Vladimir
205–6,
207
,

208–9
,
211

Petrovykh, Vasily
46

Pimen, Patriarch
45

Father Dmitry’s letter of apology

to
177

Pitirim, Metropolitan (K G B

codename A B B A T)
222

the Pioneers (youth group)
77,
78

Plyushch, Leonid
74–5,
118–19

Podrabinek, Alexander (brother of

Kirill Podrabinek)
61
,
176

Podrabinek, Kirill (husband of

Tanya Podrabinek)
176–7

on Father Dmitry
177–8

Podrabinek, Tanya
61
,
62,
66
,
67
,

70
,
141
,
176

Poland
28
,
45
,
59
,
151
,
152
,
208

police
241

corruption in
75
,
237–8

O M O N riot police
245

political issues
67,
73
,
75,
93–4
,

206–7
,
209
,
210
,
211
,
216

election fraud (2011–12)
229–30
,

246–7

see

also

Brezhnev,

Leonid
;

dissidents;
Khrushchev, Nikita
;

Putin, Vladimir
;
state control

political prisoners
42,
54

in Perm gulag camps
240–44

Polubesova, Elmira
238–9

pop music
169
,
170
,
171
,
249

Pussy Riot
232–3
,
234

popular culture
see
Western culture

population crisis
5–7,
10
,
11,
165
,

189
,
206–7
,
216
,
236
,
246

birth/death rates
5,
6–7,
16,
21
,

33
,
94–5,
145–6
,
154,
165
,

206
,
209
,
216

death, causes of
5,
93
,
94;
of

children
16–17
,
22
,
95
,
99–

100; hunger
27–8
; violence
5
,

17
,
94
,
99

depopulation
5
,
18
,
24
,
48–9
,
58
,

64
,
156
,
189
,
203
,
216
,
241

life expectancy
5
,
6–7,
93–4
,
99
,

165
,
206
,
246
; of women
5

pensioners, number of
189

population levels
5
,
12,
24
,
49
,
56
,

203
,
216

in Moscow
203

Potanin, Vladimir
210

Powers, Gary
6

prices
33
,
55–6

propaganda

German, during occupation of

Russia
30,
122,
123–4

Soviet
41–2,
101,
114–15;
Father Dmitry’s recantation as
176
,

177

Western
81

protest
see
dissidents

The Protocols of the Elders of
Zion

208
,
224

see also
Jews

psychiatric assessment/treatme
nt of

dissidents, by K G B
116–19
,

127

public opinion/polls
10–11
,
229–30

publishing, as state controlled
7
,
114

see

also

Russian

literature
;

samizdat

Punin, Nikolai (husband of
Anna

Akhmatova)
60–61,
70

Two Years in Abez
168

Pussy Riot
232–3,
234

Putin, Vladimir
51,
204
,
216
,
228–

33

opposition to
229

as prime minister
229

re-election as president (2012)

229–30

Russian Orthodox Church and

232
,
235–6

his United Russia party
229–30
,

238

railway travel
4–5,
35,
37–8
,
48,
49
,

51
,
66,
67
,
77,
92
,
96
,
141–2
,

146
,
154
,
156–8

accidents
127

Trans-Siberian railway
236–7

Regelson, Lev
101–2,
105

religion
8
,
15
,
23
,
29
,
81–2
,
87
,

117–18

atheism
82,
85,
86,
88,
90,
96–7

the Bible
242,
243

Catholicism
210

Evangelical
130–31

in gulag camps
56,
242,
243

Lenin on
44

Muslims
92
,
93
,
135
,
210
,
211

se
e also
Jews;
Russian Orthodox

Church

religious freedom
15
,
17
,
101

religious relics
235–6

Richards, Keith
170
,
171
,
172

Russian army
94

Russian history
5,
6
,
7,
9
,
17
,
121
,

168

Holy Fools
(Yurodivie)
239–40

Soviet Union, collapse of
207
,

208–10
,
215
,
225

teaching of
239–40

see also
World War II

Russian identity
197
,
210
,
211

Russian literature
7
,
77

by dissidents
7–8
,
73
;
see also

samizdat

see also
individual authors

Russian Orthodox Church
8–9,
21
,

23
,
32
,
40,
82–6
,
155–6,
204–

5, 213–14

as anti-Semitic
223
,
224

church buildings
84–5,
107–8

church/state relationship
9,
32,
36
,

44–5
,
72
,
82–3
,
90
,
105
,
181
,

185
,
218
,
235–6

churches, Khrushchev’s closure

of
82
,
94

as conservative
85

F
ather Dmitry, action against 90–

91, 98, 100–102, 109, 198,

206
;
see also
Grebnevo
and

Kabanovo

importance of
9
,
32
,
211–12

K G B and
45,
222–5

monasteries
37
,
38–41
,
44
,
204–5

Old Believers
84

priests
82,
83
,
100;
as K G B

informers
222–4
; training of

36–7
,
38–41
,
123
;
see also
individual priests

Pussy Riot case and
232–3

Putin and
232,
235–6

resurgence of
85–6,
123

s e r v i c e s
107–8,

251–2
;

christenings
104–5
,
126

Stalin and
32,
36–7,
44–6,
51–2

young people and
82–3,
87,
108
,

126
,
179

see also
religion

Saint Petersburg
231–2

Sakharov, Andrei
73,
130,
131,
135
,

136
,
140
,
171
,
172
,
200
,
207

on the birth rate
99

hunger strike
243

his Nobel Peace prize
112

samizdat
(underground publications)

8
,
73
,
87–8
,
93
,
104

Chronicle

of

Current

Events

(newspaper)
113
,
139
,
242

see also
dissidents

Sedov, Father Vladimir
103
,
104
,

115–16
,
120–21
,
225

Father Dmitry and
104–11,
116
,

119–20
,
133
,
134
,
251
,
252;
on his arrest/recantation
116,
119
,

126
,
173
,
178

Sem
yonov, Father Alexander 108–

11, 133–4, 202

arrest
134

Father Dmitry and
251,
251
; on his

arrest/recantation
180–81
,

202

Semyonova, Zoya (I) (wife of

Alexander

Semyonov)
108
,

109
,
111
,
115–16
,
119
,
133
,

134

Semyonova, Zoya (II) (daughter of

Alexander

Semyonov)

(goddaughter of Father Dmitry)

108
,
109
,
115
,
133
,
202–4

serfs/serfdom
see
peasant class

Sergei, Patriarch
36–7

St Sergei
39

Shabalkin, Colonel Ilya
3

Shafarevich, Igor
101

Shcharansky, Natan
130
,
131
,
139

Shchelkovo (town)
107

Shchipkova, Tatyana
135

Shimanov, Gennady
117–18

Shmurov, Viktor
245–6

Siberia
27
,
76
,
80
,
154

Siny
avsky, Andrei
8
,
79
,
170
, 233–

4

smoking
100

Sobchak, Ksenia
232

Sok
olov, Sergei (K G B agent) 196–

7, 198

Solovetsky Islands gulag camp

(Solovki)
49,
50,
138

Solovov, Mikhail
135

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
87
,
140
,

200

in exile
129

The Gulag Archipelago
50,
51

One Day in the Life of Ivan

Denisovich
75

Sonin, Konstantin
233–4

Sorokin,

Vladimir

(K

G

B

interrogator)
181,
193
,
194–5
,

196

Sovi
et Union, collapse of
207
, 208–

10, 215, 225

see also
Russian history

space travel
6
,
76

Spodin, Sergei
241–2,
244–5

Sretenka monastery, Moscow
204–5

Stalin, Joseph
5
,
7
,
9
,
23–4
,
25
,
28
,

59–60
,
73–4
,
151

his great purges (1937–8)
73
,
74

Hitler and
59

Khrushchev’s criticism of
74–5
,

82
,
86

Russian Orthodox Church and
32
,

36–7
,
44–6
,
51–2

death
43
,
74

starvation

deaths from
27–8;
of children
22

in gulag camps
49,
152

see also
famine

state control
9
,
23–4,
73–4
,
87,
121
,

167
,
169–72
,
187

bureaucracy
79–80
,
149–51
,
160

children, enforced removal from

parents
245

church/state relationship
9,
32,
36
,

44–5
,
72
,
82–3
,
90
,
105
,
181
,