St Petersburg

Balanchine, George: aesthetics of, 283; as ballet dancer, 247-49, 255-56, 304, 315, 316; at ballet school, 266-69, 286-87, 304; and ballet school in United States, 327; ballets choreographed by, 295, 296, 298, 305, 316, 318, 325, 328, 329, 363, 505; in Ballets Russes, 254; birth date of, 252; choreographers as influences on, 296-300, 327-28; Diaghilev’s meeting with, in Paris, 315-16; on Isadora Duncan, 295-96; early choreography of, 304-05; early life of, 247-49, 254-56, 286-87; father of, 252-54; at FEKS, 302-03, 315; and Fokine, 261; and Glinka, 69-70; memory of, 286-87; and Milstein, 363; move from Russia to Europe, 313-15; move to United States, xviii, 254, 321-22, 327; and Mravinsky, 483; musical education of, 305-06, 315; Nutcracker production of, 330; personality of, 293, 329; at Petersburg Conservatory, 74; and Petipa, 256-57; politics of, 318; return visit to Russia with New York City Ballet, 504-05, 506; and Shostakovich, 306; and Slonimsky, 292-94; and Sollertinsky, 408; and Spessivtseva, 295; and stage production of Miserable Eugen, 311-12; and stage production of Prince Igor, 398; and Stravinsky, 70, 315, 316, 325, 328-30; and Tchaikovsky, 99-100, 114, 118, 295, 306, 329, 330, 515; Volkov’s book on, xix; on Volynsky, 292; wives of, 269, 312, 313; and Young Ballet, 307-12, 314, 390; and Yudina, 368; and Zheverzheyev, 269, 285, 291, 307, 315

Balanchivadze, Meliton, 252-54, 306, 343

Ballet. See specific dancers, chroreographers, ballet companies, and titles of ballets

Ballet Imperial, 329

Ballets Russes, xi, 254, 261-66, 489, 501

Balmont, Konstantin, 158, 238

Banshchikov, Gennady, 490

Bartók, Béla, 367, 370, 435

Baryshnikov, Mikhail, 502, 506-07, 514

Bashkirtseff, Marie, 166-67, 175

Bashlachev, Alexander, 535

Bashutsky, Alexander, 35-36

Basmanova, Marianna, 513, 515

Batyushkov, Konstantin, 23, 26

Baudelaire, Charles, 34, 157, 191

Beatles, 532, 533

Bedny, Demyan, 339

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 71, 73, 298, 305, 357, 364, 367, 399, 484

Belinsky, Vissarion, 34, 36-39

Belsky, Vladimir, 346

Bely, Andrei, 150, 158, 209, 215-18, 226, 227, 232, 272, 275, 294, 320, 526

Belyaev, Mitrofan, 348-50

Belyaev Circle, 349-50, 354, 362

Benkendorf, Count Alexander, 35, 43

Benois, Alexander: on Alexander III, 99, 129; on architecture of Petersburg, 250; artwork of, on book jackets, 150; and avant-garde, 127-28; and ballet, 297, 319; ballet sets by, 501; childhood of, 104; and collaboration with Soviet authorities, 205-06; death of, 129; and Diaghilev, 122-23, 130-33; family of, 64, 122, 193; illustrations for Pushkin’s Bronze Horseman, 135-36; and Mir iskusstva, xv, 130-38, 214-15, 220, 323, 357-58, 487; on music, 249; on Nicholas II, 129; on renaming St. Petersburg as Petrograd, 337; as painter, 317, 487; in Paris, 317; and Petipa, 260; and Petrouchka, 264-65, 471; postcard reproductions of, 489; on Prince Igor, 110; on Russian opposition, 144; significance of, xxiii-xxiv, 59, 125-26; and Stravinsky’s Baiser de la fée, 325; and Tchaikovsky, 123-25, 132, 137-38; on winter season, 250

Béranger, Pierre-Jean, 75

Berberova, Nina, 330

Berdyayev, Nikolai, 151, 515

Berg, Alban, 342, 370

Berggolts, Olga, 438, 447-48, 522, 531

Bergson, Henri, 401

Berkovsky, Naum, 463, 500, 523

Berlin, Isaiah, 469-70

Bernhardt, Sarah, 94, 147

Bezymensky, Alexander, 371

Billington, James H., xxiv, 327

Birzhevye novosti (Stock Exchange News), 154-55

Bitov, Andrei, 521-27, 540, 547, 548

Bleriot, Louis, 163

Blok, Alexander: and acmeism, 239; and Akhmatova, 161, 180-82, 219-21, 230, 237-40, 242, 466-67, 472; in Akhmatova’s Poem Without a Hero, 471; anti-Bolshevik speech on Pushkin, 231-32, 239; arrest of, by Cheka, 231; and Bely, 215, 217-18; birth of, in Petersburg, 225; Bolshevik position on, xv, 232, 236, 237; and Bolshevik revolution, 205-08, 219, 220, 230-33; on Bronze Horseman, 25n; death of, 232-34, 237-40, 294, 323, 421; and Dmitriev, 294; financial difficulties of, 226-27; at “Futurist Festival,” 274; on Grigoryev, 33; and Gumilyov, 230-31; Ivanov on, 405; lectures by, 150-51, 158; Lourié on, 233; love affairs of, 180-82, 466-68; on Matiushin, 276; on Petrograd as new name for Petersburg, 196; poetry of, 156, 158-61, 163, 169, 180-82, 524, 546; quotations from, in Poem Without a Hero, 473; Sudeikina’s reading of poetry by, 191; sympathetic treatment by Communists, 226-27; in Vaginov’s work, 406;and Voloshin-Gumilyov conflict, 171; at Vsemirnaya Literatura Publishing House, 228-29; and World War I, 197—works: “The Commendatore’s Footsteps,” 467-68; The Fair Show Booth, 190, 265, 394, 471; Retribution, 218-19; The Twelve, 219, 226, 230, 310, 315; The Unknown Woman, 227

Bloody Sunday, 145, 461, 462

Bobyshev, Dmitri, 481, 510, 513, 521, 528, 540-41

Bogdanov-Berezovsky, Valerian, 294-95, 306, 360, 366, 429, 440-41, 453

Boito, Arrigo, 96