St Petersburg

Bolshakova, Galina, 306

Bolshevik revolution. See Russian Revolution of, 1917

Bolshoi Dramatic Theater, 499-500

Bolshoi Theater, 294, 433, 447

Book market, 143-44, 150, 154, 156-57, 165-66, 175, 227-28, 492-98, 533

Borodin, Alexander, 77, 78, 102, 105, 107-11, 148, 347, 398, 489

Braque, Georges, 185

Brecht, Bertolt, 289

Brezhnev, Leonid, 67, 478, 512, 528, 531, 535, 536

Brik, Lilya, 236

Britten, Benjamin, 489

Briullov, Karl, 61-63, 83, 492

Brodersen, Yuri, 309

Brodsky, Andrei, 513

Brodsky, Joseph: aesthetics of, 514-15; and Akhmatova, 162, 420, 479, 481-82, 505, 510, 511, 513, 516; and the Beatles, 532; birth year of, 479; and Dostoyevsky, 49, 85; essays of, 516; expulsion to the West, 512-13, 517; jobs held by, 480, 523; and Mining Institute poets, 521; move to United States, xviii, 513; as Nobel Prize winner, 516-17; on Peter the Great, 515-16; on Petersburg culture, 547-48; poetry of, 480-82, 509, 512-18, 524-25, 533, 536, 540; on poet’s role, 519; on pro-Western orientation in Leningrad, 518, 527; on regeneration of Petersburg culture, 549; return from exile, 512; Sartre’s letter in defense of, 509-10, 512-13; Soviet edition of poetry of, 540; Soviet propaganda against, 514, 516-17; on St. Petersburg as the name for city, 544; and Stalin’s death, 479-80; trial and punishment of, xviii, 81, 476-78, 482, 508-10, 517, 524; Volkov’s collaborations with, xviii-xix

Bronze Horseman (statue), xii-xiii, xxi-xxii, 4-6, 18-20, 35, 216, 367, 370, 425, 428, 450, 541-42, 549, 550

Bronze Horseman, The (ballet), 502-03

Bronze Horseman, The (poem). See Pushkin, Alexander

Bruni, Lev, 184, 185, 286

Bruni, Nina, 238

Bryusov, Valery, 135, 150, 158, 167, 168, 171, 174, 176, 180

Bulgakov, Mikhail, 336, 469, 488

Bulgarin, Faddei, 27, 34, 38, 154

Bunin, Ivan, 167-68, 215, 320

Bunina, Anna, 164

Burns, Robert, 431-32

Cage, John, 187

Callot, Maria, 18, 19, 541

Carnival theory, 401, 404, 408, 470-72, 530

Casella, Alfredo, 370

Catherine the Great, xii, 16-21, 32-33, 65, 112, 263, 387, 491

Censorship, 27, 34, 48, 106, 113, 152, 175, 284, 285, 342, 367, 378, 411, 417, 453, 484, 488, 489, 491, 495, 498-99, 501, 508-09, 511, 521, 525, 531, 536

Chabukiani, Vakhtang, 501, 502, 506

Chagall, Marc, 28, 159-60, 183, 284

Chaliapin, Fyodor, xv, 76, 148-49, 171-72, 231, 262, 268, 274, 359, 377, 471

Chapayev, 458, 459

Charskaya, Lydia, 165-66

Charushin, Yevgeny, 495

Chekhonin, Sergei, 150, 282-83

Chekhov, Anton, 127, 153-54, 155, 166, 176, 308, 314, 489, 499

Chekrygin, Vassily, 306

Chemiakin, Mihail, 486-87, 513, 541-42

Cherkasov, Nikolai, 451

Chernyshevsky, Nikolai, 48, 81, 82, 131, 340

Children’s literature, 492-98, 531

Chopin, Frederic, 90, 261, 305, 309, 357, 365, 367

Chopiniana, 252, 261, 262, 295, 315

Choreodramas, 501-03, 506

Chukovskaya, Lydia, 418-19, 421-22, 462

Chukovsky, Kornei, 37, 43, 152, 153, 156, 158-59, 165, 176, 238, 289, 382, 388, 418-19, 478, 492-93, 537

Chukovsky, Nikolai, 388, 414, 527

Concerto Baroque, 363

Counterplan, 457, 522

Court Singing Capella, 71, 72

Craft, Robert, 64, 70, 325-26, 330, 511

Croce, Arlene, 328

Cubism, 185, 270, 277, 311, 374

Cui, César, 75, 77-78, 81, 97, 108

Dadaism, 390, 397, 405, 486, 493, 530, 534, 537

Damskii listok (Ladies’ Sheet), 165

Danilova, Alexandra, 261, 295, 298, 304, 306, 308, 312, 317

Danini, Maya, 531

Dargomyzhsky, Alexander, 70, 75-80, 102, 105, 108; The Stone Guest, 76-80, 105, 108, 467

Dārzinš, Emīls, 343

Debussy, Claude, 88, 110, 191, 194, 341, 347, 350

Decembrist uprising, 23, 31, 32, 40, 43, 145, 386, 449, 460

Derzhavin, Gavriil, 515

Diaghilev, Sergei: Balanchine’s meeting with, in Paris, 315-16; ballet productions of, 95, 318-19, 348; and Ballets Russes, 254, 261-66, 489, 501; and Benois, 122-23; death of, 329; and Glinka, 64, 69-70; on “intimate art,” 187; and Mir iskusstva, xv, 128, 130-32, 215; and Nijinsky, 202, 265; as patron of the arts, 130, 133; and Petersburg, xix; and Petipa, 260; and Petrouchka, 263-66; politics of, 318; and Prince Igor, 110; on Prokofiev, 369; and promotion of ballet, 329; and promotion of Russian culture in the West, 127, 148, 249, 262-63, 413; and Stravinsky, 353; and Tchaikovsky, 123, 124, 318-19; and Young Ballet, 307

Diderot, Denis, xvi, 17, 18

Dmitriev, Mikhail, 35

Dmitriev, Vladimir, 293-96, 306-07, 311, 314, 389-90, 496-97

Dmitrieva, Elizaveta, 169-75

Dobin, Efim, 473

Dobuzhinsky, Mstislav, 70, 138, 150, 224-26, 283, 317, 323, 329, 487, 489

Dobychin, Leonid, 383-84

Dobychina, Nadezhda, 277-78, 280

Dolgopolov, Leonid, 200

Dom Iskusstv (House of the Arts), 374, 381

Don Quixote (ballet), 256, 258

Doronina, Tatyana, 500