Natasha's Dance

19. Stravinsky transcribes a folk song sung by a peasant gusli player on the porch of the Stravinsky house at Ustilug, 1909 (photo: Fondation Theodore Strawinsky/Lebrecht Collection, London)

20. Hermits at a monastery in northern Russia (photo: Popperfoto, Northampton)

21. Group of Komi people in typical clothing. Photograph, c. 1912, by S. I. Sergei. Reproduced from L. N. Molotova, Folk Art of the Russian Federation from the Ethnographical Museum of the Peoples of the U.S.S.R. (Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1981)

22. Vasily Kandinsky: sketches of buildings in the Komi region. From the Vologda Diary, 1889. Centre Pompidou, Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris. (Copyright © Photo CNAC/MNAM Dist. RMN) © AD AGP, Paris and DACS, London 2002

23. Masked Buriat shaman with drum, drumstick and horse-sticks. Photograph by Toumanoff, early 1900s

24. Watercolour copy of a lost self-portrait with Circassian sword and cloak by Mikhail Lermontov, 1837 (photo: Novosti, London)

25. Vladimir Stasov: study of the Russian letter 'B' from a fourteenth-century manuscript of Novgorod. Reproduced in Stasov, Russkii naroodnyi ornament, 1872) (photo copyright © British Library, London [ref. 7743])

26. Vladimir Stasov: title page of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera score Sadko, 1897. Photograph copyright © British Library, London [ref. G.1073.a]

27. Akhmatova and Punin in the courtyard of the Fountain House, 1927. Copyright © Museum of Anna Akhmatova in the Fountain House, St Petersburg

28. Liubov Popova: stage design for Meyerhold's 1922 production of the Magnanimous Cuckold. Tretyakov Gallery Moscow (photo: Bridgeman Art Library, London)

29. Alexander Rodchenko: 'To Her and Me', illustration from Mayakovsky's Pro eto, 1923. Private collection. © DACS 2002

30. 'The Russian house inside the Italian cathedral'. Final shot from Andrei Tarkovsky's Nostalgia, 1983 (photo: Ronald Grant Archive, London)

31. Sergei Efron and Marina Tsvetaeva, 1911. Courtesy Viktoria Schweitzer

COLOUR PLATE SECTION 1

1. Nikolai Argunov: Portrait ofPraskovya Sheremeteva, 1802. Copyright © 2002, State Museum of Ceramics and XVIII Century Estate, Kuskovo/Petrushka, Moscow

2. Vasily Tropinin: Portrait of Pushkin, 1827. Pushkin Museum, Moscow (photo: AKG London)

3. Alexei Venetsianov: Morning of the Lady of the Manor, 1823. Copyright © 2002, State Russian Museum, St Petersburg/Petrushka, Moscow

4. Alexei Venetsianov: In the Ploughed Field: Spring, 1827. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (photo: Bridgeman Art Library, London)

5. Vasily Perov: Hunters at Rest, 1871. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (photo: Bridgeman Art Library, London)

6. Interior of the Terem Palace, the Kremlin, Moscow, restored by Fedor Solntsev (photo: Novosti, London)

7. Vasily Surikov: The Boyar's Wife Morozova, 1 884. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (photo: Scala, Florence)

8. Imperial Presentation Kovsh by Mikhail Perkin for Faberge, 1906. Copyright © Phototheque de la Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris

9. Siren vase by Sergei Vashkov for Faberge, 1908. Copyright © 2002, State Historical Museum, Moscow/Petrushka, Moscow

10. Ilia Repin: Portrait of Vladimir Stasov, 1873. Copyright © 2002, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

11. Ilia Repin: The Volga Barge Haulers, 1873. Copyright © 2002, State Russian Museum, St Petersburg/Petrushka, Moscow

12. Ivan Kramskoi: The Peasant Ignatiy Pirogov, 1874. Copyright © 2002, Kiev Museum of Russian Art, Kiev, Ukraine/Petrushka, Moscow

13. Leon Bakst: Portrait of Diaghilev with His Nanny, 1906. Copyright © 2002, State Russian Museum, St Petersburg/Petrushka, Moscow

COLOUR PLATE SECTION 2

14. Original score by Igor Stravinsky for The Rite of Spring, 1913. Private Collection (photo: Bridgeman Art Library, London). Copyright 1912, 1921 by Hawkes Son (London) Ltd. Reproduced by permission of Boosey Hawkes Music Publishrs Ltd

15. Viktor Vasnetsov: set design for Mamontov's production of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera The Snow Maiden at Abramtsevo, 1881 (photo: Novosti, London)

16. Nikolai Roerich's set and costumes for The Rite of Spring, reproduced by the Joffrey Ballet for its revival of the original ballet in 1987. (Copyright © Herbert Migdoll

17. Nikolai Roerich: The Idols, 1901. Copyright © 2002, State Russian Museum, St Petersburg/Petrushka, Moscow

18. Nikolai Roerich: costume designs for The Snow Maiden, 1921, lor the Chicago Opera Company production, 1922. Courtesy Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York