Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. PREFACE vii
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii
5. CHAPTER 1 BEGINNINGS (1866– 1893) 1
6. CHAPTER 2 A DIONYSIAN THUNDERSTORM (1894– 1897) 19
7. CHAPTER 3 EUROPEAN WANDERINGS (1897– 1902) 50
8. CHAPTER 4 INTO THE FRAY (1903– 1905) 80
9. CHAPTER 5 THE TOWER (1905– 1906) 108
10. CHAPTER 6 EXPERIMENTS IN LIFE AND ART (1906– 1907) 133
11. CHAPTER 7 THE “MYSTICAL PERIOD” (1907– 1909) 169
12. CHAPTER 8 THE CRISIS OF SYMBOLISM (1909– 1910) 208
13. CHAPTER 9 A CHARISMATIC MENTOR (1910– 1911) 236
14. CHAPTER 10 THE “TENDER MYSTERY” (1912– 1913) 261
15. CHAPTER 11 MOSCOW (1913– 1915) 289
16. CHAPTER 12 WAR AND REVOLUTION (1915– 1917) 329
17. CHAPTER 13 LIFE UNDER THE BOLSHEVIKS (1917– 1920) 354
18. CHAPTER 14 BAKU (1920– 1924) 386
19. CHAPTER 15 FROM MOSCOW TO ROME (1924– 1925) 417
20. CHAPTER 16 RELIGIOUS QUESTIONS (1926– 1927) 450
21. CHAPTER 17 A COSMOPOLITAN RUSSIAN (1927– 1929) 477
22. CHAPTER 18 A EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL (1929– 1934) 501
23. CHAPTER 19 RETURN TO ROME (1934– 1938) 545
24. CHAPTER 20 THE FINAL DECADE (1939– 1949) 581
25. ABBREVIATIONS 617
26. NOTES 619
27. BIBLIOGRAPHY 675
28. INDEX 691