St Petersburg

Akhmatova, Anna: and acmeism, 178-80, 220, 481, 513; and Annensky, 220, 221; attitude toward blood and death, 241-43; and Balanchine, 315; and ballet, 290, 295, 312; on Bely’s Petersburg, 215; and Blok, 161, 180-82, 219-21, 230, 233, 237-40, 242, 421, 466-67, 472; and Bolsheviks, xvi, 219-20, 228-29, 232-33, 318, 414-22, 449-51, 465, 468-70, 538; and Brodsky, xix, 162, 420, 479, 481-82, 505, 510, 511, 513, 516; Brodsky’s book on, xix; death of, 510-11; divorce from Gumilyov, 230; early life of, 161-62; early poetry of, xvii, 69, 139, 161, 175; Eikhenbaum’s study of poetry of, 453; and fear, 497; on forgetting, ix; and Great Terror, 414-22, 442; and Gumilyov, 162-63, 169, 172-73, 178, 228-30, 237-42, 421, 449, 468, 537; and Hippius, 169; husbands of, 162, 169, 184, 212, 230, 415, 449, 469; Ivanov on, 405; on Kharms, 407; literary predecessors of, 163-67; on Makovsky, 169; and Mandelstam, 396-97, 405; on Masquerade, 202; memoirs of, 387; and Modigliani, 162-63; and music, 511; myth of affair with member of royal family, 194; on Nicholas I and Pushkin, 25; on Petersburg, xvii, 15, 221-25, 240-43, 294, 481; poetry readings by, x, 177, 178, 219, 242; poetry set to music, 488; portraits of, 183-85, 539; as pseudonym for Anna Gorenko, 161; and Pushkin, 467, 475, 476; rehabilitation of, 538-39; on Rimsky-Korsakov, 346; and Shostakovich, xi-x, 462, 474; on The Silver Age, xv; on socialist realism, 412; son of, 229, 415-17, 421, 469, 510-11, 546; and Stalin, 415-16, 468-70; and Stravinsky, 419; at The Stray Dog, 186, 187, 194-95; on symbolism, 158, 178, 179; and Tsvetayeva, 173-75; in Vaginov’s work, 406; Volkov’s performance for, xi-xi; during World War I, 197-98, 206-07, 421; during World War II, 429, 447, 469; on Zoshchenko, 383—works: Anno Domini MCMXXI, 243; Evening, 163, 167, 175-77, 189, 240-41; “The Last Rose,” 481; “May Snow,” x; “memorial” poems, 430-31; poem on Punin, 452; Poem Without a Hero, xviii, 28, 46, 465-76, 510, 525-26, 536, 539; “The Prayer,” 198, 219, 229-30, 242, 421, 481; Requiem, xvii, xviii, 417-22, 424, 425, 430, 431, 441, 442, 487-88, 508-09, 510, 536, 537, 539; The Rosary, 182; “To My Fellow Citizens,” 243; The Way of All Earth, 346

Akhmatova circle, 481, 510, 521-22

Akimov, Nikolai, 490-92, 498-500

Alcoholism and drug use, 40, 44-45, 353-54, 365, 520-21, 528, 531, 534-35

Alexander I, 21-22, 24, 26, 252, 340

Alexander II, 43, 44, 48, 78, 90-95, 102-105, 109, 256

Alexander III, 93, 95, 95-96, 98-99, 107, 109, 114, 128-29, 137, 215-16, 256

Alexandrinsky Theater, 27, 36, 147, 199-203, 255, 287, 311, 463

Alexandrov, Alexander, 72

Alexei Mikhailovich, Tsar, 7

Alexeyev, Fyodor, 60

Algarotti, Count Francesco, 10

Altman, Nathan, 183-86, 205, 213-14, 281-84, 463, 539

Andrei, Grand Duke, 194

Anna Ioannovna, Empress, 15

Annenkov, Yuri, 185, 211, 226, 227, 232, 233, 284

Annensky, Innokenty, xiii, 157, 171-72, 220-21

Antsiferov, Nikolai, xxiii, 196, 209, 418

Apollo (ballet), 328, 484

Apollo (magazine), 169-72, 181, 185

Apollon Musagète, 316, 318, 324, 325, 432. See also Apollo (ballet)

Aquarium (rock band), 533-34

Arefyev, Alexander, 528-30

Arensky, Anton, 343

Arnshtam, Leo, 66

Aronson, Leonid, 531

Artsybashev, Mikhail, 156-57

Asafyev, Boris, xv, xxiii-xxiv, 59, 111, 119-21, 299, 350, 352, 370

Assassinations: of Alexander II, 90-95, 104; attempted assassination of Lenin, 207-08; of Kirov, xvi, 235, 413-15, 450, 495

Auden, W. H., 516, 518

Auer, Leopold, 361-63

Averbakh, Ilya, 539

Babel, Isaac, 423

Babochkin, Boris, 458

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 363, 367, 368, 392, 511

Baiser de la fée, Le, 325, 326, 484

Bakhtin, Mikhail, 401-04, 407-09, 470, 473, 530

Bakst, Leon, xi, xv, 122, 131, 260, 263, 501

Balakirev, Mily, 75, 77-81, 87, 97-98, 102, 107