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14 Quoted in N. M. Zorkaia, Na rubezhe stoletii. U istokov massovogo iskusstva v Rossii 1900-1910 godov (At the Turn of the Century: At the Source of Mass Art in Russia 1900-1910) (Moscow, 1976), p. 94.

15 Quoted in A. N. Bokhanov, Burzhuaznaia pressa Rossii i krupnyi kapital: Konets XIX v-1914 g. (The Bourgeois Press in Russia and Major Capital: The Late Nineteenth Century-1914) (Moscow, 1984), p. 40.

16 Quoted in Chukovsky, Sochineniia (Works), vol. 6, p. 146.

17 Quoted in Voprosy literatury (Issues of Literature), 2 (1977), p. 198.

18 Quoted in A. Turkov, A. P. Chekhov i ego vremia (A. P. Chekhov and His Times) (Moscow, 1980), p. 73.

19 Ibid., p. 60.

20 Ibid., p. 54.

21 I. I. Yasinsky, Roman moei zhizni (The Novel of My Life) (Moscow and Leningrad, 1926), p. 280.

22 Nathan Milstein, in conversation with the author, New York, 1980.

23 Quoted in E. A. Dinershtein, “Fabrikant” chitatelei: A. F. Marks (“Manufacturer” of Readers: A. F. Marx) (Moscow, 1986), p. 77.

24 V. V. Vorovskii, Estetika. Literatura. Iskusstvo (Aesthetics. Literature. Art) (Moscow, 1975), p. 255.

25 Chukovsky, Sochineniia (Works), vol. 6, pp. 370-71.

26 Vorovskii, Estetika (Aesthetics), pp. 530-31.

27 D. S. Mirsky, Contemporary Russian Literature, 1881-1925 (London, 1926), p. 151.

28 Anna Akhmatova, in conversation with the author, Komarovo, 1965.

29 Kornei Chukovsky, Iz vospominanii (From Reminiscences) (Moscow, 1959), p. 373.

30 Ibid., p. 371.

31 Quoted in D. Maksimov, Poeziia i proza A. Bloka (Poetry and Prose of A. Blok) (Leningrad, 1975), p. 507.

32 Literaturnoe nasledstvo (Literary Heritage), vol. 92 (in four books), Aleksandr Blok: Novye materialy i issledovaniia (Alexander Blok: New Materials and Research), book 3 (Moscow, 1982), p. 438.

33 V. E. Meyerhold, Stat’i. Pis’ma. Rechi. Besedy (Articles. Letters. Speeches. Conversations), part 1, 1891-1917 (Moscow, 1968), p. 103.

34 Georgii Chulkov, Gody stranstvii. Iz knigi vospominanii (Years of Wanderings: From the Book of Reminiscences) (Moscow, 1930), p. 221.

35 Amanda Haight, Anna Akhmatova: Poeticheskoe stranstvie. Dnevniki, vospominaniia, pis’ma A. Akhmatovoi (Anna Akhmatova: A Poetic Pilgrimage. Diaries, Reminiscences, Letters of A. Akhmatova) (Moscow, 1991), pp. 323, 324-25.

36 Ob Anne Akhmatovoi. Stikhi. Esse. Vospominaniia. Pis’ma (About Anna Akhmatova. Poems. Essays. Reminiscences. Letters) (Leningrad, 1990), p. 33.

37 Joseph Brodsky and Solomon Volkov, Vspominaiia Akhmatovu: Dialogi (Remembering Akhmatova: Dialogues) (Moscow, 1992), p. 35.

38 Quoted in G. A. Tishkin, Zhenskii vopros v Rossii, 50-60-e gody XIX v. (The Women’s Question in Russia, 1850-1860s) (Leningrad, 1984), p. 202.

39 Quoted in E. V. Letenkov, “Literaturnaiia promyshlennost’” Rossii kontsa XIX-nachala XX veka (“Literary Industry” of Russia in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries) (Leningrad, 1988), p. 114.

40 Rech’ (Speech), February 21, 1910.

41 Tamara Ivanova, Moi sovremenniki, kakimi ia ikh znala (My Contemporaries As I Knew Them) (Moscow, 1984), p. 424.

42 V. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko, Na kladbishchakh (In Cemeteries) (Revel, 1922), p. 135.

43 I. A. Bunin, Sobranie sochinenii (Collected Works), 9 vols., vol. 9 (Moscow, 1967), p. 289.

44 Ibid., p. 281.

45 Quoted in Literaturnoe nasledstvo (Literary Heritage), vol. 85, Valerii Briusov (Valery Briusov) (Moscow, 1976), p. 691.

46 Anna Akhmatova, in conversation with the author, Komarovo, 1965.

47 Ibid.

48 Quoted in Pamiatniki kul’tury: novye otkrytiia. Pis’mennost’. Iskusstvo. Arkheologiia. Ezhegodnik-1988 (Cultural Monuments: New Discoveries. Literacy. Art. Archaeology. Annual for 1988) (Moscow, 1989), p. 58.

49 Ibid.

50 Ibid., p. 54.

51 Ibid., p. 59.

52 Quoted in Druzhba narodov (Friendship of the Peoples), 6 (1989), p. 250.

53 Quoted in Anna Saakyants, Marina Tsvetayeva. Stranitsy zhizni i tvorchestva, 1910-1922 (Marina Tsvetayeva: Pages of Her Life and Work, 1910-1922) (Moscow, 1986), p. 88.

54 Valery Briusov, Sobranie sochinenii (Collected Works), 7 vols., vol. 6 (Moscow, 1975), p. 365.