St Petersburg

67 Benois, Moi vospominaniia (My Reminiscences), vol. 1 (bks. 1-3), p. 650.

68 Tchaikovsky, Perepiska (Correspondence), vol. 5, p. 70.

69 Quoted in A. Dolzhanskii, Simfonicheskaia muzyka Chaikovskogo (Tchaikovsky’s Symphonic Music) (Moscow and Leningrad, 1965), p. 94.

70 Ibid., p. 99.

71 Igor Glebov [B. V. Asafyev], Chaikovskii (Tchaikovsky) (Petersburg and Berlin, 1923), p. 34.

72 A. V. Ossovskii, Muzykal’no-kriticheskie stat’i, 1894-1912 (Musical Criticism Articles, 1894-1912) (Leningrad, 1971), p. 171.

73 P. Tchaikovsky, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii. Literaturnye proizvedeniia i perepiska (Complete Collected Works. Literary Works and Correspondence), vol. 8 (Moscow, 1963), p. 226.

74 Tchaikovsky, Perepiska (Correspondence), vol. 10, p. 202.

75 Quoted in Muzykal’noe nasledie Chaikovskogo: Iz istorii ego proizvedenii (Tchaikovsky’s Musical Heritage: From the History of His Works) (Moscow, 1958), p. 239.

76 Glebov [Asafyev], Chaikovskii, pp. 43-44.

77 Quoted in L. M. Konisskaya, Chaikovskii v Peterburge (Tchaikovsky in Petersburg) (Leningrad, 1969), p. 240.

78 Benois, Moi vospominaniia (My Reminiscences), vol. 1 (bks. 1-3), p. 640.

79 Ibid., p. 644.

80 Ibid., p. 646.

81 Ibid., p. 603.

82 Ibid.

83 Ibid., p, 654.

84 Ibid., p. 653.

85 P. Tchaikovsky, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii. Literaturnye proizvedeniia i perepiska (Complete Collected Works. Literary Works and Correspondence), vol. 13 (Moscow, 1971), p. 349.

86 Quoted in Russkaia literatura kontsa XIX-nachala XX v. Devianostye gody (Russian Literature of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: The Nineties) (Moscow, 1968), p. 276.

87 Alexander Benois, Moi vospominaniia (My Reminiscences), 2 vols. (Moscow, 1980), vol. 2 (bks. 4-5), p. 48.

88 Benois, Moi vospominaniia (My Reminiscences), vol. 1 (bks. 1-3), p. 592.

89 Ibid., pp. 697-98.

90 Quoted in Yu. B. Solovyov, Samoderzhavie i dvorianstvo v kontse XIX veka (Sovereignty and the Nobility in the Late Nineteenth Century) (Leningrad, 1973), p. 121.

91 Quoted in Russkaia khudozhestvennaia kul’tura kontsa XIX-nachala XX veka, 1895-1907 (Russian Art Culture of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, 1895-1907), vol. 2 (Moscow, 1969), p. 133.

92 Ibid., p. 18.

93 V. V. Stasov, Pis’ma k deiateliam russkoi kul’tury (Letters to People in Russian Culture), vol. 1 (Moscow, 1962), p. 80.

94 Benois, Moi vospominaniia (My Reminiscences), vol. 1 (bks. 1-3), p. 16.

95 Mir iskusstva, 1 (1902), p. 1 (“Khronika” [Chronicle]).

96 Ibid., p. 4.

97 M. V. Dobuzhinsky, Vospominaniia (Reminiscences) (Moscow, 1987), p. 188.

98 A. Fedorov-Davydov, Russkoe i sovetskoe iskusstvo: Stat’i i ocherki (Russian and Soviet Art: Articles and Sketches) (Moscow, 1975), p. 333.

99 Quoted in A. L. Ospovat and R. D. Timenchik, “Pechal’nu povest’ sokhranit’…” (“To Preserve the Sorrowful Tale …”) (Moscow, 1987), p. 229.

100 Ibid., p. 232.

101 Ibid., p. 231.

102 Dobuzhinsky, Vospominaniia (Reminiscences), p. 188.

CHAPTER 3

1 Ocherki istorii Leningrada (Sketches of the History of Leningrad), vol. 3 (Moscow and Leningrad, 1956), p. 104.

2 Benois, Moi vospominaniia (My Reminiscences), vol. 2 (bks. 4-5), p. 412.

3 Quoted in Panorama iskusstv (Panorama of the Arts), issue 4 (Moscow, 1981), p. 32.

4 Akhmatova, Sochineniia (Works), 2 vols., vol. 2, p. 253.

5 Nathan Milstein, in conversation with the author, New York, 1987.

6 Sergei Prokofiev, Avtobiografiia (Autobiography) (Moscow, 1973), p. 538.

7 M. F. Gnesin, Stat’i. Vospominaniia. Materialy (Articles. Reminiscences. Materials) (Moscow, 1961), p. 141.

8 Prokofiev, Avtobiografiia (Autobiography), pp. 503-4.

9 I. F. Stravinsky, Stat’i i materialy (Articles and Materials) (Moscow, 1973), p. 445.

10 N. A. Berdyaev, Samopoznanie (opyt filosofskoi biografii) (Self-Cognition [An Attempt at a Philosophical Biography]) (Moscow, 1991), p. 144.

11 Alexander Blok, Zapisnye knizhki, 1901-1920 (Notebooks, 1901-1920) (Moscow, 1965), p. 126.

12 Ibid., p. 118.

13 Kornei Chukovsky, Sobranie sochinenii (Collected Works), 6 vols., vol. 6 (Moscow, 1969), pp. 122, 124.