St Petersburg

24 Sollogub, Vospominaniia (Reminiscences), p. 593.

25 Quoted in L. Raaben, Zhizn’ zamechatel’nykh skripachei: Biograficheskie ocherki (The Lives of Outstanding Violinists: Biographical Sketches) (Moscow and Leningrad, 1967), p. 107.

26 Rubinstein, Literaturnoe nasledie (Literary Heritage), vol. 1, p. 70.

27 Ibid.

28 Ibid., p. 76.

29 V. V. Stasov, Stat’i o muzyke (Articles on Music), 5 issues, issue 2, 1861-1879 (Moscow, 1976), p. 9.

30 A, P. Borodin, Kriticheskie stat’i (Critical Articles) (Moscow, 1982), p. 60.

31 F.I. Chaliapin, Maska i dusha: Moi sorok let na teatrakh (Mask and Soul: My Forty Years in the Theater) (Paris, 1932), pp. 157-58.

32 Dmitri Shostakovich, in conversation with the author, Moscow, 1972.

33 Stasov, Stat’i o muzyke (Articles on Music), issue 3, 1880-1886 (Moscow, 1977), pp. 73-74.

34 Quoted in A. Gozenpud, Russkii opernyi teatr XIX veka, 1857-1872 (Russian Opera Theater of the Nineteenth Century, 1857-1872) (Leningrad, 1971), p. 286.

35 M. P. Mussorgsky, Literaturnoe nasledie. Pis’ma. Biograficheskie materialy i dokumenty (Literary Heritage. Letters. Biographical Materials and Documents) (Moscow, 1971), p. 100.

36 Ibid.

37 Quoted in L. Barenboim, Anton Grigor’evicb Rubinshtein. Zhizn’, artisticheskii put’, tvorchestvo, muzykal’no-obshchestvennaia deiatel’nost’ (Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein. Life, Artistic Path, Work, and Musical and Public Activity), vol. 2, 1867-1894 (Leningrad, 1962), pp. 251-52.

38 Joseph Brodsky, in conversation with the author, New York, 1978.

39 Quoted in Mussorgsky, Literaturnoe nasledie (Literary Heritage), p. 17.

40 Ibid., p. 20.

41 N. Rimsky-Korsakov, Letopis’ moei muzykal’noi zhizni (Annals of My Musical Life) (Moscow, 1980), p. 183.

42 Quoted in Sovetskaia muzyka (Soviet Music), 9 (1980), p. 104.

43 M. P. Musorgskii v vospominaniiakh sovremennikov (M. P. Mussorgsky in the Reminiscences of Contemporaries) (Moscow, 1989), p. 204.

44 Ibid., p. 168.

45 P. Tchaikovsky, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii. Literaturnye proizvedeniia i perepiska (Complete Collected Works. Literary Works and Correspondence), vol. 5 (Moscow, 1959), p. 105.

46 Quoted in N. A. Troitskii, Tsarskie sudy protiv revoliutsionnoi Rossii: Politicheskie protsessy 1871-1880 gg. (Tsarist Courts Against Revolutionary Russia: Political Trials 1871-1880) (Saratov, 1976), p. 73.

47 Ibid., p. 79.

48 Ibid., p. 95.

49 Tchaikovsky, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii (Complete Collected Works), vol. 10 (Moscow, 1966), p. 54.

50 See Troitskii, Tsarskie sudy (Tsarist Courts), p. 311.

51 A. Gozenpud, Russkii opernyi teatr XIX veka, 1873-1889 (Russian Opera Theater of the Nineteenth Century, 1873-1889) (Leningrad, 1973), p. 222.

52 A. Gozenpud, Russkii opernyi teatr na rubezhe XIX-XX vekov i F. I. Shaliapin, 1890-1904 (Russian Opera Theater at the Turn of the Century and F. I. Chaliapin, 1890-1904) (Leningrad, 1974), p. 6.

53 I. E. Repin, Dalekoe blizkoe (Distant Closeness) (Leningrad, 1982), p. 211.

54 Perepiska I. S. Turgeneva (Correspondence of I. S. Turgenev), 2 vols., vol. 2 (Moscow, 1986), pp. 318-19.

55 P. I. Tchaikovsky, Pis’ma rodnym (Letters to Family) (Moscow, 1940), p. 667.

56 Rimsky-Korsakov, Letopis’ (Annals), p. 66.

57 Tchaikovsky, Perepiska (Correspondence), vol. 5, p. 372.

58 Quoted in A. Orlova, Trudy i dni M. P. Musorgskogo. Letopis’ zhizni i tvorchestva (Works and Days of M. P. Mussorgsky: Annals of His Life and Work) (Moscow, 1963), p. 405.

59 Ibid., p. 500.

60 Quoted in A. N. Kriukov, “Moguchaia kuchka”: Stranitsy istorii peterburgskogo kruzhka muzykantov (“The Mighty Handful”: Pages from the History of a Petersburg Circle of Musicians) (Leningrad, 1977), p. 183.

61 Ibid., p. 184.

62 Quoted in Sovetskaia muzyka (Soviet Music), 3 (1989), p. 113.

63 Benois, Moi vospominaniia (My Reminiscences), vol. 1 (bks. 1-3), p. 371.

64 Ibid., p. 366.

65 Orlova, Trudy i dni Musorgskogo (Works and Days of Mussorgsky), p. 354.

66 Rimsky-Korsakov, Letopis’ (Annals), p. 160.