Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Translator’s Note xxi
5. Acknowledgments xxiii
6. Maps xxv
7. Chapter 1. My Roots 1
8. Chapter 2. My Parents 6
9. Chapter 3. Father’s First Attempt to Introduce Truth Where It Wasn’t Wanted 18
10. Chapter 4. My Early Childhood 24
11. Chapter 5. Exile 32
12. Chapter 6. Home from Exile 39
13. Chapter 7. Father Returns from St. Petersburg 46
14. Chapter 8. 1811: New Place, New Faces 54
15. Chapter 9. Our Life in Pisaryevka, 1812–1815 66
16. Chapter 10. School 79
17. Chapter 11. Fate Strikes Again 94
18. Chapter 12. Waiting in Voronezh 104
19. Chapter 13. Ostrogozhsk: I Go Out into the World 107
20. Chapter 14. My Friends and Activities in Ostrogozhsk 119
21. Chapter 15. My Friends in the Military; General Yuzefovich; The Death of My Father 133
22. Chapter 16. Farewell, Ostrogozhsk 149
23. Chapter 17. Home Again in Ostrogozhsk 165
24. Chapter 18. The Dawn of a New Day 177
25. Chapter 19. St. Petersburg: My Struggle for Freedom 187
26. Translator’s Epilogue 203
27. Notes 207
28. Glossary 221
29. Index 223