The Coast of Utopia

‘Voyage’

Time: 1833-44

Place:

Act One: Premukhino, the Bakunin estate, a hundred a fifty miles north-west of Moscow…

Act Two: Various locales in Moscow and St. Petersburg

Cast of Characters

Alexander Bakunin…. (age 65 in 1833)

Varvara Bakunin…. his wife (age 42 in 1833)

Liubov…. their daughter (age 22 in 1833)

Varenka…. their daughter (age 21 in 1833)

Tatiana…. their daughter (age 18 in 1833)

Alexandra…. their daughter (age 17 in 1833)

Michael….. their son (age 20 in 1833)

Miss Chamberlain, an English governess

Baron Renne, a cavalry officer

Semyon, senior household servant

Nicholas Stankevich, a young philosopher (age 21 in 1833)

Vissarion Belinsky, a literary critic (age 22 in 1833)

Ivan Turgenev, a would be writer (age 25 in 1833)

Alexander Herzen, a would be revolutionary (age 21 in 1833)

Nicholas Sazonov, Herzen’s ‘circle’ (age 21 in 1833)

Nicholas Ogarev, Herzen’s ‘circle’ (age 20 in 1833)

Nicholas Kestcher, Herzen’s ‘circle’ (age 21 in 1833)

Nicholas Polevoy, editor of Telegraph

Mrs. Beyer

Natalie Beyer, Mrs. Beyer’s daughter

Peter Chaadaev, a philosopher

Stepan Shevyrev, editor of the Moscow Observer

Katya, Belinsky’s mistress

Pushkin, the poet

Dyakov, a cavalry officer

A Ginger Cat

Serfs, Servants, Party Guests, Musicians, etc.