St Petersburg

105 Viktor Sosnora, in conversation with the author, New York, 1987.

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

107 Ibid.

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

109 Konstantin Kuzminsky, in conversation with the author, New York, 1993.

110 Ibid.

111 Ibid.

112 Alexander Zhitinsky, Puteshestvie rok-diletanta (Travels of a Rock Dilettante) (Leningrad, 1990), p. 403.

113 Ibid.

114 Vladimir Rekshan, Kaif polnyi (Total High), (Leningrad, 1990), p. 23.

115 Ibid., p. 38.

116 Ibid., p. 125.

117 Anatoly Sobchak, Khozhdenie vo vlast’ (Taking Power) (Moscow, 1991), p. 214.

118 Yu. Karyakin, Dostoevskii i kanun XXI veka (Dostoyevsky and the Eve of the Twenty-first Century) (Moscow, 1989), p. 606.

119 Sobchak, Khozhdenie vo vlast’ (Taking Power), p. 65.

120 Tsarstvennoe slovo: Akhmatovskie chteniia (Royal Word: Akhmatova’s Readings), issue 1 (Moscow, 1992), p. 41.

121 Moskovskie novosti (Moscow News), May 1, 1988.

122 Literaturnaya gazeta (Literary Gazette), August 17, 1988.

123 Komsomolskaya pravda (Komsomol Pravda), March 19, 1988.

124 Nezavisimaia gazeta (Independent Newspaper), July 16, 1992.

125 Vechernii Minsk (Evening Minsk), June 5, 1991.

126 Yegor Ligachev, in conversation with the author, New York, 1991.

127 Sovetskaia Rossiia (Soviet Russia), July 5, 1991.

128 Novoye Russkoye Slovo (New Russian Word), December 12, 1990.

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

130 Ibid.

131 Novoye Russkoye Slovo (New Russian Word), October 22, 1993.

132 L. N. Gumilyov, Ot Rusi do Rossii (From Rus to Russia) (St. Petersburg, 1992), p. 255.

133 Ibid., p. 256.

134 Andrei Bitov, My prosnulis’ v neznakomoi strane (We Awakened in an Unfamiliar Land) (Leningrad, 1991), p. 38.

135 G. P. Fedotov, Sud’ba i grekhi Rossii: Izbrannye stat’i po filosofii russkoi istorii i kul’tury (Russia’s Fate and Sins: Selected Articles on the Philosophy of Russian History and Culture), vol. 2 (St. Petersburg, 1991), p. 146.

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

137 Ogonyok (Little Flame), 24 (1990), p. 10.

138 Bitov, My prosnulis’ (We Awakened), p. 58.

139 Iskusstvo Leningrada (Art of Leningrad), 1 (1991), p. 53.

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

141 Ibid.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Solomon Volkov was born in the USSR in 1944 and studied violin at the Leningrad Conservatory, receiving his diploma with honors. He continued postgraduate work in musicology there, while serving as the artistic director of the Experimental Studio of Chamber Opera. In 1971 his book Young Composers of Leningrad appeared with a preface by Dmitri Shostakovich; he also published numerous articles on the subject of Russian culture. After Mr. Volkov came to the United States in 1976, he published Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich, which he had written in collaboration with the composer while in the USSR. Testimony became an international bestseller and received the coveted ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for excellence in writing about music. Mr. Volkov’s other collaborative books include memoirs of Nathan Milstein and interviews with George Balanchine and Joseph Brodsky. Now an American citizen, Mr. Volkov lives in New York City with his wife, Marianna, a pianist and photographer.

INDEX

Books, poetry, plays, operas, and other musical compositions are indexed under the authors’ or composers’ names. Films and ballets are indexed under the titles of the works.

Abelson, I. O., 155

Academy of Arts, 26-27, 61-62, 71, 82, 136, 226, 293, 307, 317, 491-92, 494

Academy of Sciences, 15, 131, 213

Acmeism, 178-80, 185-86, 220-24, 239, 317, 320, 376, 453, 481, 513, 533

Adamovich, Georgy, 320

Adventures of Oktyabrina, The, 455

Agon, 328, 484, 505

Agranov, Yakov, 234-36, 415