1. An Emperor's Funeral [1855]
2. A Lieutenant in the Crimea [Tolstoy]
3. The Tsar Visits Moscow
4. A Moscow Professor [Sergei Soloviev]
5. Tolstoy in the Capital
6. The Tsar, the Serfs, and the Coronation
7. A Soldier in Exile [Dostoevsky]
8. Michael Bakunin
9. The Muravievs and Perovskys [in Siberia and China]
10. Two Noblemen [Tolstoy and Turgenev]
11. Herzen and The Bell
12. Two Visitors to London [Tolstoy and Bakunin]
13. Two More Visitors, 1862 [Turgenev and Dostoevsky]
14. A Fateful Year [1866: An assassination attempt and the Tsar's "affair"]
15. Nekrasov and Muraviev the Hangman
16. The Perovskys and Herzen in Geneva
17. Anna [Dostoevsky and his second wife, 18666-67]
18. The Professor and his Family [the Solovievs]
19. A Marriage and a Masterpiece [Tolstoy and War and Peace]
20. A Shot in Paris [another assassination attempt on the Tsar]
21. Baden-Baden [Turgenev and Dostoevsky quarrel]
22. The Dostoevskys in Geneva [Bakunin and Ogarev also there]
23. Nechaev, Bakunin, and the Last Days of Herzen
24. The Tsar Visits London [and Queen Victoria, 1874]
25. Dostoevsky in Bad Ems
26. Sophia Perovskaya, Radicalism, and the Russian People (Narod)
27. A Mystic in the Desert [Vladimir Soloviev in Egypt]
28. The Tsar at the Front [Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78]
29. The Death of Nekrasov
30. A Visit to a Monastery [Dostoevsky and Vladimir Soloviev]
31. Tolstoy Apologizes [to Turgenev, who comes to visit Tolstoy]
32. "Prophet, Prophet" [Dostoevsky: Pushkin Speech and death]
33. A Death and a Marriage [Empress Maria dies and Tsar remarries]
34. Two Conspirators [Sophia Perovskaya and Andrei Zhelyabov]
35. Bombs and Blood [assassination of Tsar, 1881]
36. The Trial [of Perovskaya and others]
37. Two Appeals [by Tolstoy and V. Soloviev for clemency for assassins]
38. A Spectacle on Semenovsky Square [hanging of 5 assassins]
Epilogue
*The material in brackets is provided to more clearly indicate the subject of each chapter.