St Petersburg

153 Literaturnoe nasledstvo (Literary Heritage), vol. 92, book 3, p. 478.

154 Quoted in Anna Akhmatova, Requiem (Moscow, 1989), p. 31.

155 Ob Anne Akhmatovoi (About Anna Akhmatova), p. 135.

156 Odoevtseva, Na beregakh Nevy (On the Banks of the Neva), pp. 477-78.

157 Quoted in Daugava, 8 (1990), p. 118.

158 Blok, Dnevnik (Diary), p. 321.

159 Annenkov, Dnevnik moikh vstrech (Diary of My Encounters), vol. 1, p. 74.

160 Chaliapin, Maska i dusha (Mask and Soul), p. 288.

161 Ibid., p. 294.

162 Alexander Blok, Sobranie sochinenii (Collected Works), 8 vols., vol. 6 (Moscow and Leningrad, 1962), p. 167.

163 Literaturnoe nasledstvo (Literary Heritage), vol. 80, p. 261.

164 Blok, Sobranie sochinenii (Collected Works), vol. 8, p. 537.

165 Ibid., p. 539.

166 Literaturnoe nasledstvo (Literary Heritage), vol. 92, book 2 (Moscow, 1981), p. 164.

167 Daugava, 11 (1990), pp. 91-93.

168 Khodasevich, Nekropol’ (Necropolis), p. 122.

169 Ogonyok, 18 (1990), p. 14.

170 Ibid., p. 15.

171 Daugava, 8 (1990), pp. 120, 122.

172 Victor Serge, Memoirs of a Revolutionary (London, 1984), p. 150.

173 Vozvrashchennye imena (Returned Names) [anthology], book 1 (Moscow, 1989), p. 191.

174 Nina Bruni-Balmont, in conversation with the author, Moscow, 1974.

175 Ob Anne Akhmatovoi (About Anna Akhmatova), pp. 197-98.

176 Quoted in Anna Akhmatova, Poema bez geroiia (Poem Without a Hero) (Moscow, 1989), p. 11.

177 K. Chukovsky, Dnevnik, 1901-1929 (Diary, 1901-1929) (Moscow, 1991), p. 143.

178 Ibid., p. 194.

179 Literaturnoe nasledstvo (Literary Heritage), vol. 92, book 3, p. 816.

180 Quoted in Saakyants, Marina Tsvetaeva, p. 310.

181 Odoevtseva, Na beregakh Nevy (On the Banks of the Neva), p. 480.

182 Ibid., p. 473.

183 Ibid., pp. 480-81.

CHAPTER 4

1 George Balanchine, in conversation with the author, New York, 1981.

2 Ibid.

3 Marquis de Custine, Empire of the Czar (New York, 1989), p. 106.

4 M. M. Zagoskin, Roslavlev, ili Russkie v 1812 godu (Roslavlev; or, Russians in 1812) (Moscow, 1955), p. 48.

5 Quoted in Ospovat and Timenchik, “Pechal’nu povest’ sokhranit’…” (“To Preserve the Sorrowful Tale”), p. 263.

6 Ibid.

7 Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft, Memories and Commentaries (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1981), p. 30. Reprint.

8 Benois, Moi vospominaniia (My Reminiscences), vol. 1 (bks. 1-3), p. 13.

9 Quoted in V. Krasovskaia, Istoriia russkogo baleta (History of Russian Ballet) (Leningrad, 1978), p. 15.

10 Quoted in A. Gozenpud, Russkii opernyi teatr XIX veka, 1836-1856 (Russian Opera Theater of the Nineteenth Century, 1836-1856) (Leningrad, 1969), p. 77.

11 Ibid.

12 Quoted in V. Krasovskaia, Istoriia russkogo baleta (History of Russian Ballet), pp. 64-65.

13 Quoted in O. Petrov, Russkaia baletnaia kritika kontsa XVIII-pervoi poloviny XIX veka (Russian Ballet Criticism of the Late Eighteenth-First Half of the Nineteenth Centuries) (Moscow, 1982), p. 146.

14 Yu. M. Lotman, Stat’i po tipologii kul’tury (Articles on the Typology of Culture), issue 2 (Tartu, 1973), p. 64.

15 Quoted in Mikheil Gorgidze, Gruziny v Peterburge (Georgians in Petersburg) (Tbilisi, 1976), p. 104.

16 George Balanchine, in conversation with the author, New York, 1982.

17 Ibid.

18 Marius Petipa, Materialy. Vospominaniia. Stat’i (Materials. Reminiscences. Articles) (Leningrad, 1971), p. 90.

19 Ibid.

20 V. Gayevsky, Divertisment (Divertissement) (Moscow, 1981), p. 79.

21 Ibid., p. 70.

22 Petipa, Materialy (Materials), p. 68.

23 Quoted in Yu. Slonimsky, P. I. Chaikovskii i baletnyi teatr ego vremeni (P. I. Tchaikovsky and the Ballet Theater of His Times) (Moscow, 1956), p. 121.

24 Ibid., p. 9.

25 George Balanchine, in conversation with the author, New York, 1982.

26 Alexandra Danilova, in conversation with the author, New York, 1986.

27 Sergei Diagilev i russkoe iskusstvo (Sergei Diaghilev and Russian Art) [collection], 2 vols., vol. 2 (Moscow, 1982), p. 100.

28 Quoted in V. Krasovskaia, Russkii baletnyi teatr nachala XX veka (Russian Ballet Theater of the Early Twentieth Century), 2 vols., vol. 1 (Leningrad, 1971), p. 361.

29 Stravinsky and Craft, Memories and Commentaries, p. 36.

30 Stravinsky, Stat’i i materialy (Articles and Materials), p. 462.

31 Ibid.