St Petersburg

31 Nathan Altman, in conversation with the author, Leningrad, 1966.

32 Akhmatovskii sbornik (Akhmatova Anthology), issue 1 (Paris, 1989), p. 118.

33 Cf. V. N. Toporov, Akhmatova i Blok (Akhmatova and Blok) (Berkeley, 1981).

34 Cf. Brodsky and Volkov, Vspominaiia Akhmatovu (Remembering Akhmatova), pp. 36-38.

35 Irina Graham, in conversation with the author, New York, 1978.

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

37 Dmitri Shostakovich, in conversation with the author, Moscow, 1973.

38 E. Dobin, Siuzhet i deistvitel’nost’ (Plot and Reality) (Leningrad, 1976), p. 145.

39 Quoted in V. Vilenkin, V sto pervom zerkale (In the One Hundred and First Mirror) (Moscow, 1987), p. 237.

40 A. Afanas’ev, Poeticheskie vozzreniia slavian na prirodu (Poetic Visions of the Slavs on Nature), vol. 2 (Moscow, 1868), p. 85.

41 Quoted in Vozdushnye puti (Aerial Paths), issue 4 (New York, 1965), p. 280.

42 Joseph Brodsky, in conversation with the author, New York, 1982.

43 Vozdushnye puti (Aerial Paths), issue 4, p. 283.

44 Ibid., p. 303.

45 Literaturnaya gazeta (Literary Gazette), May 5, 1993.

46 Andrei Bitov, in conversation with the author, New York, 1988.

47 Yevgeny Rein, in conversation with the author, New York, 1988.

48 Joseph Brodsky, in conversation with the author, New York, 1981.

49 Joseph Brodsky, in conversation with the author, Washington, D.C., 1992.

50 Ibid.

51 Joseph Brodsky, in conversation with the author, New York, 1981.

52 Iosif Brodskii razmerom podlinnika (Joseph Brodsky in Original Meter) (Tallinn, 1990), p. 168.

53 Joseph Brodsky, in conversation with the author, New York, 1981.

54 Ibid.

55 Kirill Kondrashin, in conversation with the author, Washington, D.C., 1980.

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

57 Maxim Shostakovich, in conversation with the author, New York, 1986.

58 Shvarts, Zhivu bespokoino (I Live Anxiously), p. 298.

59 Irina Kichanova-Lifshits, Prosti menia za to, chto ia zhivu (Forgive Me for Being Alive) (New York, 1982), p. 37.

60 Novyi mir (New World), 6 (1992), p. 101.

61 Tynianovskii sbornik (Tynyanov Anthology), issue 3, p. 210.

62 Shvarts, Zhivu bespokoino (I Live Anxiously), p. 630.

63 Kichanova-Lifshits, Prosti menia (Forgive Me), p. 49.

64 Shvarts, Zhivu bespokoino (I Live Anxiously), p. 117.

65 Berkovsky, Literatura i teatr (Literature and Theater), p. 566.

66 Sollertinsky, Stat’i o balete (Articles on Ballet), p. 90.

67 Ibid., p. 96.

68 Quoted in Konstantin Sergeyev, Sbornik statei (Collection of Articles) (Moscow, 1978), p. 154.

69 Rudolf Nureyev, in conversation with the author, New York, 1986.

70 Ibid.

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

72 Ibid.

73 Joseph Brodsky, in conversation with the author, New York, 1981.

74 Yuri Grigorovich, in conversation with the author, New York, 1990.

75 Literaturnaya gazeta (Literary Gazette), May 5, 1993.

76 Brodsky and Volkov, Vspominaia Akhmatovu (Remembering Akhmatova), p. 49.

77 Ibid., p. 48.

78 Ibid.

79 Joseph Brodsky, in conversation with the author, New York, 1981.

80 Ibid.

81 Quoted in Neva, 2 (1989), p. 166.

82 Ibid.

83 Anatolii Afanas’ev, Polyn’ v chuzhikh poliakh (Wormwood in Alien Fields) (Moscow, 1984), p. 248.

84 Joseph Brodsky, in conversation with the author, New York, 1981.

85 Solomon Volkov, Iosif Broskii v N’iu-Iorke (Joseph Brodsky in New York) (New York, 1990), p. 20.

86 Ibid., p. 50.

87 Joseph Brodsky, in conversation with the author, New York, 1988.

88 New Criterion, 1986, special summer issue, p. 11.

89 Joseph Brodsky, in conversation with the author, Washington, D.C., 1991.

90 Literaturnaya gazeta (Literary Gazette), May 5, 1993.

91 Nikolai Chukovsky, Literaturnye vospominaniia (Literary Reminiscences), p. 46,

92 Iosif Brodskii razmerom podlinnika (Joseph Brodsky in Original Meter), p. 179.

93 Pushkin v vospominaniiakh sovremennikov (Pushkin in Reminiscences of Contemporaries), vol. 1, p. 120.

94 Quoted in Vas. Bazanov, Russkie revoliutsionnye demokraty i narodoznanie (Russian Revolutionary Democrats and Knowing the People) (Leningrad, 1974), p. 316.

95 Ibid., p. 396.

96 Knizhnoe obozrenie (Book Review), June 16, 1989.

97 Ibid.

98 Andrei Bitov, in conversation with the author, New York, 1988.

99 Ibid.

100 Ibid.

101 Andrei Bitov, in conversation with the author, New York, 1992.

102 Ibid.

103 Ibid.

104 Andrei Bitov, in conversation with the author, New York, 1988.