Romanov Riches: Russian Writers and Artists Under the Tsars

8. L. Tolstoi, Perepiska s russkimi pisateliami [Correspondence with Russian writers], p. 185.

9. Ibid., p. 187.

10. M. Chaikovskii, Zhizn’ Petra Il’icha Chaikovskogo [Life of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky], in three volumes, vol. 2 (Moscow, 1997), p. 232.

11. G. A. Larosh, Izbrannye stat’i [Selected articles], part 2 (Leningrad, 1975), p. 104.

12. See, for instance, interview with Mikhail Buianov, president of the Moscow Academy of Psychotherapy, “Was Tchaikovsky a Homosexual?” in Argumenty i fakty, 49 (2003), p. 20.

13. Richard Taruskin, On Russian Music (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, 2009), p. 98.

14. M. Chaikovskii, Zhizn, vol. 2, p. 11.

15. Théodule-Armand Ribot, Volia v ee normal’nom i boleznennom sostoianii [The will in its normal and diseased state] (St. Petersburg, 1894), p. 121.

16. Vospominnaniia o P. I. Chaikovskom [Reminiscences of P. I. Tchaikovsky] (Moscow, 1979), p. 399.

17. Ibid., p. 400.

18. Ibid., pp. 130–31.

19. P. I. Chaikovskii, Al’manakh [Anthology], part 1 (Moscow, 1995), p. 127.

20. Aleksandr Poznanskii, Samoubiistvo Chaikovskogo: Mif i real’nost’ [Suicide of Tchaikovsky: Myth and reality] (Moscow, 1993), p. 40.

21. E. Feoktistov, Za kulisami politiki i literatury. 1848–1896 [Behind the scenes of politics and literature, 1848–1896] (Moscow, 1991), p. 238.

22. See, for instance, A. Suvorin, Dnevnik [Diary] (Moscow, 1992), pp. 371, 374, 376–77; A. Bogdanovich, Tri poslednikh samoderzhtsa [The last three autocrats] (Moscow, 1990), pp. 104, 161, 178, 299.

23. See Novyi mir, 5 (1999), pp. 189–90.

24. Quoted from K. K. Rotikov, Drugoi Peterburg [The other Petersburg] (St. Petersburg, 1998), p. 407.

25. Novyi mir, 5 (1999), p. 189.

26. Quoted from Neizvestnyi Chaikovskii [The unknown Tchaikovsky] (Moscow, 2009), p. 19.

27. Chaikovskii, Al’manakh, part 1, p. 123.

28. Ibid.

29. See Truman Bullard, “Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin: Tatiana and Lensky, the Third Couple,” in Tchaikovsky and His Contemporaries: A Centennial Symposium (Westport, Conn., and London, 1999), pp. 157–66.

30. George Balanchine, in conversation with the author.

31. Igor’ Glebov (Boris Asaf’ev), Chaikovskii: Opyt kharakteristiki [Tchaikovsky: Essay of a characterization] (St. Petersburg and Berlin, 1923), p. 45.

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Dostoevsky and the Romanovs

1. P. Chaikovskii, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii. Literaturnye proizvedeniia i perepiska [Complete collected works: Literary works and correspondence], vol. 5 (Moscow, 1959), pp. 106–07.

2. Zapiski P. A. Cherevina [Memoirs of P. A. Cherevin] (Kostroma, 1918), pp. 4–5.

3. Aleksandr Vasil’evich Nikitenko, Zapiski i dnevnik [Notes and journal], in three volumes, vol. 2 (Moscow, 2004), pp. 244-45.

4. Ibid., pp. 302, 304.

5. Prince Meshcherskii, Vospominaniia [Memoirs] (Moscow, 2001), p. 307.

6. Quoted from Igor’Volgin, Koleblias’ nad bezdnoi: Dostoevskii i russkii imperatorskii dom [Hovering over the abyss: Dostoevsky and the Russian imperial house] (Moscow, 1998), pp. 271–72.

7. A. G. Dostoevskaia, Vospominaniia [Memoirs] (Moscow, 1971], p. 326.

8. Quoted from Volgin, p. 302.

9. Literaturnoe nasledstvo [Literary heritage], vol. 86 (Moscow, 1973), p. 135.

10. Ibid., p. 136.

11. Dostoevskaia, p. 327.

12. See, for instance, Novyi mir, 5 (1999), pp. 195–215.

13. F. M. Dostoevskii and A. G. Dostoevskaia, Perepiska [Correspondence] (Leningrad, 1976), p. 293.

14. Ibid., pp. 285, 291.

15. See Sredi velikikh: Literaturnye vstrechi [Among the greats: Literary encounters] (Moscow, 2001), pp. 355–57.

16. Perepiska I. S. Turgeneva [Correspondence of I. S. Turgenev], in two volumes, vol. 2 (Moscow, 1986), p. 305.

17. Ibid., p. 294.

18. Quoted from Igor’ Volgin, Poslednii god Dostoevskogo [Dostoevsky’s last year] (Moscow, 1986), p. 486.

19. Quoted from Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev i ego korrespondenty [Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev and his correspondents], in two volumes, vol. 1 (Minsk, 2003), p. 34.

20. Quoted from Volgin, Poslednii god Dostoevskogo, p. 487.

21. Quoted from B. Bursov, Lichnost’ Dostoevskogo [Dostoevsky the person] (Leningrad, 1974), p. 131.